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By Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition This post was originally posted on the Global Health Council blog. The placards went from horizontal to vertical—indicating their nation wished to speak. One after another—from Guinea to Switzerland, Thailand to the United States—they spoke with...

By Assumpta Nantume, Global Health Council South Sudan is one of several conflict regions today that face a grave scarcity of human resources for health. The recent surge in violence last month has worsened the humanitarian crisis and taken a huge toll on refugee camps, where individuals are...

By Michelle Korte, IntraHealth International When you think of a humanitarian, what image comes to mind? A foreign aid worker? A group of missionaries? Maybe a few American celebrities stirring trans-Atlantic compassion? (Just Google the term “humanitarian” and you’ll see a lot of Angelina Jolie...

By Tyler Marshall, International Medical Corps A milestone global health victory has been achieved in the war against disease: Nigeria—and with it, all of Africa—is now polio-free. It is an accomplishment that has brought the world to the brink of eradicating the crippling virus, with only...

By Dr. Sanele Madela, Director Expectra Health Solutions, South Africa NOTE: This post was written in collaboration with Jessica Daly and Belinda Ngongo of FHWC member Medtronic Foundation “I am a mother, and my question is why was it so hard to diagnosis my baby?” The question – asked at the end of...

By Melissa Wanda Kirowo, FCI Program of Management Sciences for Health This post was originally published in the FCI program of MSH blog Rights and Realities At Women Deliver 2016 conference in May, I had the opportunity to talk with one of a number of young midwives attending the conference...

By Laura Hollod, Johnson & Johnson “You want a revolution? I want a revelation.” – Angelica Schuyler, Hamilton the musical There is no denying a data revolution is underway in global development. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed to in 2000 represented a breakthrough moment when for the...

By Margarite Nathe, IntraHealth International This blog was originally published in the Huffington Post. We know very little about what happened to our dear colleague Sister Veronika Rackova, a physician and Catholic nun who was loved by her community in Yei, South Sudan. We know she was driving the...

By Scott Weathers, IntraHealth International GENEVA – The world’s health ministers last week at the 69 th annual World Health Assembly approved an unprecedented resolution on health workforce that included approval of the first ever global health workforce strategy called “ Global Strategy on Human...

By Claire Hitchcock, GSK Eva looked beautiful in a long pink dress, tied with a white sash. But her serene smile belied hardship. Speaking at a Frontline Health Workers Coalition-led side session at the Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen, Eva described her difficult and determined journey to...