Devex: There is a better way to measure menstrual health, researcher says (Rogers, 3/17). Devex: Nigeria struggles with largest recorded Lassa fever outbreak (Unah, 3/18). The Guardian: Study: global banks ‘failing miserably’ on climate crisis by funneling trillions into fossil fuels (Greenfield/Makortoff, 3/18). The Guardian: Health workers targeted at least…

The Atlantic: 10 Days Later: What Italians Wish They Had Known (Buder, 3/16). MedPage Today: Birth Control Implants, HIV Meds Safe Together (Susman, 3/12). NPR: Panic In The Street: How Psychology Shaped The Response To An Epidemic (Vedantam et al., 3/16). SciDev.Net: ‘Gender blind’ coronavirus policies could hinder disease fight…

Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: Multiple Stressors Shape Mothers’ Mental Health in Nairobi, Kenya As part of the Maternal Health Initiative’s CODE BLUE series, Sangeetha Madhavan, professor of African American studies and sociology and associate director of the Maryland Population Research Center at the…

IntraHealth International’s “VITAL”: 10 Global Health Issues to Watch in the 2020s Margarite Nathe, principal editor and writer at IntraHealth International, outlines 10 global health issues to watch in this next decade: infectious diseases and potential pandemics; fake news; climate change; supply chains; digital health; mental health; heart disease, cancer,…

ABC News: Rebels kill dozens of villagers in Ebola-hit Congo (Winsor, 2/3). AP: As forests burn around the world, drinking water is at risk (Webber, 1/31). Devex: Q&A: WHO’s global strategy to tackle health misinformation (Ravelo, 2/4). Devex: How South Africa is spearheading efforts to tackle MDR TB (February 2020).…

World Economic Forum: What young people can teach world leaders about mental health in 2020 Naeem Dalal, a Global Shaper with the Lusaka Hub, and Jazz Thornton, founder of The Voices of Hope, discuss the global movement to tackle the mental health crisis with a focus on youth leaders, as…

The BMJ: WHO retracts opioid guidelines after accepting that industry had an influence (Dyer, 1/10). Borgen Magazine: Empowering Women in Kenya with Reusable Pads (Kiessling, 1/11). Borgen Magazine: Why World Hunger is Still a Problem? (Wanyonyi, 1/10). Devex: As OPIC shuts its doors, former leaders reflect (Saldinger, 1/13). Devex: Q&A:…

The Conversation: Rising eco-anxiety means we should address mental health alongside food security Laxmi Prasad Pant, senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich and adjunct professor with the Associated Graduate Faculty at the University of Guelph “…Eco-anxiety — the difficult emotions caused by environmental conditions and knowledge — is on…

Devex: Preventing deaths from advanced HIV disease: Highlights from ICASA 2019 (12/19). IPS: Q&A: Initiative Starts Mental Health Sessions for Bangladeshi Garment Workers (Sadeque, 12/19). Reuters: Water around Rio Tinto’s Madagascar mine is high in lead, uranium — study (Reid, 12/20). Science: 2019 Breakthrough of the Year (Multiple authors, 12/19).…

Devex: Opinion: Finding the place for mental health and well-being in global development Julian Eaton, mental health director for CBM International and co-director of the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine “…Having been acknowledged in theory for many years, evidence-based practice aimed…