Why maternal health is a justice issue, not a charity case
Dr. Brigitte Wandji joins us from the End Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative and Kenya Obstetrics and Gynecology Society to discuss why maternal deaths aren’t
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Le docteur qui ne renonce jamais : comment le combat de trente ans d’un homme sauve des vies de jeunes à travers le monde
À 65 ans, la plupart des gens songent à la retraite. Le Dr Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli (souvent appelé « Chandra ») rédigeait alors sa
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What does it really take to challenge power structures in global health governance?
Postdoctoral fellow Shashika Bandara joins us from the Department of Global and Public Health at McGill University to discuss his journey from molecular
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The Doctor Who Won’t Give Up: How One Man’s 30-Year Fight is Saving Young Lives Across the Globe
At 65, most people are thinking about retirement. Dr. Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli (Chandra, as he is widely known) was earning his PhD. While many
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The Liver Detective – How Dr. Basile Njei is Rewriting the Rules of Hepatology
A Cameroonian doctor is proving that skinny people can have deadly liver disease too Doctors have been getting it wrong for years. They
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Health Policies and Diplomacy
Political Will: The Unfortunate Missing Piece in the Health Policy Discourse
For researchers, funders, and global health practitioners, political will is not an abstract concept but a decisive force that determines whether equitable health
Mental Health
How many more African adolescents must die in silence before mental health is treated as a public health priority—not a peripheral concern—in our policies, budgets, and data systems?
The prevalence of suicide attempts in Africa is estimated at 9.9%. Among young people, the median lifetime prevalence of self-harm with and without
Global Health
Africa Must Rise at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), September 2025
Luchuo Engelbert Bain, MD, PhD In September, the United Nations General Assembly will once again gather world leaders. Health will appear prominently on
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The Molecular Detective Who Became Africa’s Vaccine Visionary: Prof. Nicaise Ndembi’s Journey from Laboratory Bench to Continental Leadership
In the sterile laboratories of Kanazawa University, Japan, a young African scientist peered through microscopes at non-human primate retroviruses, searching for clues about
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How do gender and social inequalities affect who suffers most from drug-resistant infections?
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – when medicines stop working against infections – hits some groups harder than others. Gautron and colleagues (2023) found that