Devex: In Asia-Pacific, urbanization will dictate future nutrition solutions (Rogers, 11/13). Devex: Q&A: Scaling Up Nutrition head Gerda Verburg (Welsh, 11/13). Global Health NOW: Courting Health (Myers, 11/12). PBS NewsHour: In Liberia, survivors of Ebola and civil war now struggle with mental illness (Raskin, 11/12). SciDev.Net: Keeping animals out of…

Bloomberg: World’s Biggest Health Care Program Must Educate a Half-Billion Beneficiaries (Beniwal, 10/25). The Economist: Famines are becoming more frequent in the Sahel (10/25). HuffPost: What It Means That ‘Virginity Tests’ Are Still Common In Morocco (Ouazzani, 10/25). The Lancet: Urgent medical attention needed for people on Nauru (McCall, 10/27).…

SciDev.Net: The HIV epidemic will not end unless we prioritize youth mental health Melanie Abas, associate professor (reader) in global mental health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London “…The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day was Young People and Mental Health in…

Bloomberg: Americans Lose in 2040 Global Life Expectancy Rankings (Tanzi, 10/20). Business Day: Pharma companies urged to do far more to counter superbugs (Kahn, 10/22). CNN: 3 million common procedures in England could become ‘life threatening’ without antibiotics (Picheta, 10/22). Devex: On Message: A new kind of hunger ad (Umuhumuza,…

Associated Press: Liberia investigates U.S.-backed charity after alleged rapes (Paye-Layleh, 10/16). NPR: Report: Liberian Charity Worker Raped Girls He Was Supposed To Protect (Harper, 10/16). TIME: More Than Me CEO Katie Meyler Temporarily Steps Down (Young, 10/15). Al Jazeera: UNICEF: Two million children in DRC are acutely malnourished (Soi, 10/16).…

NPR: Report: World Support For Mental Health Care Is ‘Pitifully Small’ “It’s a major milestone in the fight to recognize mental health and mental illness as global issues: a comprehensive report from the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health, three years in the making, released this past week at a…

Devex: MSF staff outline grave dangers to refugees after Nauru halts mental health services “A day after Médecins Sans Frontières condemned Nauru for halting ‘desperately needed’ mental health services on the island, the government has hit back, accusing the organization of being ‘political activists’ who worked to advance their ‘political…

FT Health: The global scourge of mental ill health The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter highlights the issue of global mental health and features an interview with Chris Flowers, head of JC Flowers & Co. and co-founder of the JC Flowers Foundation, who discusses the…

Associated Press: Child hunger ‘serious’ in India while its economy grows fast (10/12). BuzzFeed News: The U.S. Is Sending Its Addiction Problem Over The Border (Stanton, 10/11). CNN: India hit with its biggest outbreak of Zika to date, with 32 confirmed cases (Suri, 10/12). Devex: Indonesia disaster reveals community preparedness…

Devex: Opinion: Bullying needs to be addressed at every level of our communities. Here’s how. Christina Juan, researcher with the Demographic and Health Surveys Program, and Chisina Kapungu, senior gender and youth specialist for YouthPower Learning at the International Center for Research on Women “…Sadly, according to the World Health…