but the beginning of something even more wonderful!I won't be posting any more on Adventures in Health. It's been a great experience and I've been able to learn some blogging skills and have had a lot of fun too. From now on, I'll be blogging with my good friend and global health whiz-kid Peter Luckow at the Students for Global Health Equity blog (sghe):ghequity.wordpress.com.Please check us out! Read Full Story
USPharmD+ provides a list of the top global health blogs on the net. AIH didn't make the top list... but GlobeMed did (#76)!!Lots of great resources to check out! Read Full Story
As part of a commitment made to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU), myself and a team of students are currently working to develop a student-led seminar designed to get students to think more deeply about the role that they can play in global health as well as to think critically about the ethics and potential negative effects of their actions.Today, university students have an unprecedented awareness of growing health disparities throughout the world. Not only are student... Read Full Story
I've always been fascinated and horrified by the ebola virus. It is one of those diseases that seems like it belongs in a science fiction movie rather than real life. Unfortunately, it exists and a new outbreak has been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Here are a few reports on the situation:Two more dead from ebola outbreak in DR Congo: MSF - WHOEbola -- in people, DRC - AetiologyDeath Toll Up in DR Congo - BBC NewsDemocratic Republic of Congo: MSF Responds to Ebola Outbreak ... Read Full Story
Nathaniel Whittemore, the founding director of Northwestern's Center for Global Engagement has a really great blog post about what Charles Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol' can teach us about social justice. I had the opportunity to go see a play at an adaptation of the play at a local Portland theater on Christmas eve. For me, it was an excellent reminder of the things that matter most.Merry Christmas everyone! Read Full Story
This I Believe: Health is a human right. Here is a moving essay by Paul Farmer read on NPR.http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=98460202&m=98566591 Read Full Story
Really disheartening news that the United States recently was the only voting nation to vote against "the right to food" for the world's poorest in the UN General Assembly.UN General Assembly press release:"Draft resolution XX on the right to food, approved on 24 November by a recorded vote of 180 in favour to 1 against (United States), with no abstentions, would have the Assembly reaffirm that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity, requiring the ad... Read Full Story
I'm still pretty new to the whole thing, but it does seem like a useful tool to exchange quick global health links, blog entries, and news stories.You can follow me at: http://twitter.com/jonshaffer Read Full Story
The Fall Quarter GlobeMed at Northwestern Newsletter is finally finished. Check it out here. It includes articles by students (including myself) who traveled to the HOPE Center this past summer as well as guest articles by Professor Kearsly Stewart and Peter Luckow, amongst others.I think it turned out really well. Many thanks to Carol Park and Tiffany Wong for editing the content and layout! Read Full Story
PLoS has some interesting dialogue about what will increasingly become an important discussion. Will global health be mostly driven by a private, profit driven model? Or, will it largely be funded and organized by public sector national governments? My problem here is that this dialogue is being driven by us, the wealthy donors, rather than the countries that will ultimately have ownership over the systems. Shouldn't we be letting the developing nations create systems which will work for ... Read Full Story
