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Borgen Magazine: Gene Therapy to Possibly Cure Sickle Cell Disease in Africa (Shores, 11/20). Borgen Magazine: How World Organizations Fight the Health Crisis in African Countries (Kuzel, 11/19). Borgen Magazine: How Technology is Advancing Global Healthcare (Hudson, 11/19). Borgen Magazine: The United States’ Fight Against Locusts in East Africa (Scalora,…
Borgen Magazine: Mothers2mothers: Aiding the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kochi, 10/31). Borgen Magazine: Rotary International’s Response to COVID-19 (Tomasello, 10/31). Devex: Lessons from IFRC on integrating mental health into humanitarian response (Smith, 11/2). Devex: U.K. ministers ‘just cannot understand’ merits of aid spending, says Rory Stewart (Worley, 10/30). Devex:…
WHO: Young people and digital health interventions: working together to design better “WHO and partners launch new guidance on designing digital health interventions with and for young people. Digital tools are an increasingly popular approach to improving health worldwide — particularly among adolescents and young people, who are accessing the…
Al Jazeera: How do we tackle an ‘infodemic’ amid a pandemic? (Pietromarchi, 9/24). Devex: Remote work takes a toll on development professionals’ well-being (Smith, 9/25). Devex: Digital inclusion will be critical to pandemic recovery (Cheney, 9/25). SciDev.Net: Social media COVID-19 crackdowns are censoring the press (Deighton, 9/24).
National Law Review: Reinventing Supply Chains to Reach Patients in Remote Areas Kathryn Rattigan, member of Robinson & Cole LLP’s Business Litigation Group and Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team (7/16). World Economic Forum: It’s time for a great reset of Africa’s e-health systems. Here’s how Cornelius Kalenzi, postdoctoral researcher with…
Wall Street Journal: Russian Hack Alert Shows Scale of Health Care’s Cybersecurity Challenge “Intelligence agencies in the U.S. and U.K. are now warning that other nations are targeting health-care organizations and pharmaceutical companies with cyberattacks. But security chiefs at hospitals, research facilities, and drugmakers say they have been under siege…
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Pandemic failure or convenient scapegoat: How did WHO get here? Thomas Gaulkin, multimedia editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (7/9). Health GAP: Biden’s Commitment to Global Sharing of COVID-19 Vaccine Technology is a Step in the Right Direction, Must be Followed by Concrete…
The Conversation: Mobile health services can help in rural Ghana if they have the human touch Robert E. Hinson, head of the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Ghana Business School at the University of Ghana (7/8). Financial Times: Bias against black researchers harms science Marja Makarow,…
Bloomberg: The New Weapon in the Covid-19 War Michael Lewis, Bloomberg Opinion columnist (6/22). The Conversation: The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and COVID-19 Yap Boum, professor in the faculty of Medicine at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (6/22). Devex: Let…
BBC: MSF Afghan maternity ward to close after deadly gun attack (6/16). Borgen Magazine: 5 Organizations Fighting COVID-19 and Water Scarcity (Rhodes, 6/15). Devex: The rise of the robo-health worker (Root, 6/16). Devex: IDC recommends no new money for Newton Fund until it reforms (Worley, 6/15). Financial Times: Coronavirus could…
