Another year, another group of long-suffering post-graduate students at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have been subjected to my prejudices and ramblings on how to advocate effectively for sexual and reproductive health and rights. I’m always surprised that the LSHTM gives me the privilege of returning to talk about the shifting landscape […]
Mandates and strong recommendations have been the key to successful vaccination programmes protecting people for decades in Europe and North America. That model is in trouble and it is time to think about what public health professionals, advocacy groups and the vaccine industry have to do to replace it. I believe in making it very […]
At the end of last year, I was lucky enough to get an insight into the thinking of a lawyer who advises some of the world’s richest people on their investments in Africa. Most of what he said came as a wake-up for me. Many private-sector investors are considering health in Africa. Maybe that’s no […]
A paper in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is part of a pattern: middle-income countries do a lot of primary care better than advanced economies. They get better results at much lower costs, usually because they are not hobbled by powerful, well-paid health professionals seeking to protect their revenue streams. The NEJM paper […]
*This story will be updated as more details become available* President Trump’s executive order could result in higher US medicines prices because big data will allow payments to be linked more closely to the real value a medicine delivers. President Trump’s executive order is short on specifics but Bloomberg says that he will direct the US Trade […]
President Trump said recently that the United States will announce a “major” tariff on pharmaceutical imports “very shortly.”
A Frontline Report from Europe’s First HLTH Gathering in Amsterdam
The following article is based on expert discussions taken from the MSD Pneumococcal Vaccination Policy Roundtable that took place in Cape Town, South Africa on March 18, 2024. The global population is ageing. This has long been a trend in Western nations. However, many developing countries are now witnessing a similar societal shift. This will […]
The demographic choices of the last 50 years are catching up to us.
What would my 23-year-old self have made of my 63-year-old self moderating a session on the end of AIDS as a public health threat by 2030? I’m sure he could not have imagined a World AIDS Day. In October of 1983, I was in my fourth month as the first communications director of the Gay […]
