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NPR—Nurse Wins Prize For Research On Benefits Of Faster Tuberculosis Testing
August 14, 2017
There was a time when Chenai Mathabire read Vogue, watched beauty pageants on TV and fantasized about being a supermodel. Today she helps the sick and injured as a nurse and epidemiologist. Last month, the…
Bending the Arc at Newport Film Festival
August 11, 2017
Last night we had the privilege of joining the Newport Film Festival for an incredible evening. We screened Bending the Arc outdoors, followed by a Q&A with PIH co-founders Todd McCormack and Jim Yong…
NPR—Imagine: Facing Surgery Without An Anesthesiologist On Hand
August 10, 2017
In Africa as well as parts of Asia and Latin America, women and babies die when labor takes a complicated turn and there is no one to provide a cesarean section. Young people succumb…
The Conversation—The secret behind Rwanda’s successful vaccination rollouts
The best medical treatment option in the world can’t save a single patient unless it is delivered at the proper time, with the proper plans and processes in place. That’s why implementation science for health matters.…
Vox—Top Democratic, Republican health experts agree on this plan to fix Obamacare
August 9, 2017
A prominent and unlikely group of liberal and conservative health experts have authored an ambitious plan to fix the Affordable Care Act — and they plan to make a hard push for their ideas on Capitol…
The Price of Peace? Peacekeeping with Impunity Harms Public Health in Haiti
August 7, 2017
In April, 2017, the United Nations (UN) announced that it will withdraw peacekeeping soldiers from Haiti after 13 years there. Known by its French acronym MINUSTAH, the mission has been controversial in security terms, but…
Scientific America—Well-Maintained Bridges and Roads May Be Critical to Your Health
August 6, 2017
Aging infrastructure could have an adverse impact on public health. Two seemingly unrelated national policy debates are afoot, and we can’t adequately address one unless we address the other. Health care reform has been…
The New York Times—Only Six Nations Have Evaluated Readiness for Global Pandemic
July 31, 2017
Of the world’s countries, only six — three rich ones and three poor ones — have taken the steps they should have to evaluate their ability to withstand a global pandemic, according to a…
The Washington Post—We can cure hepatitis C. But we’re now making the same mistake we did with AIDS.
July 29, 2017
Neil Gupta is an instructor in internal medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a clinical director for the nonprofit organization Partners in Health. Paul Farmer is the Kolokotrones university professor at Harvard…
Health is a Human Right
July 27, 2017
In 1978 the governments of the world came together and determined that “Health, which is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, is a fundamental human right, whose realization requires action by…