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Meeting the target but missing the point: The politics of childbirth data

Maternal Health Task Force

The desk she sits at is covered with loose sheets of paper and register books. In the last few decades, the field of global health has rallied around achieving targets like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is the documentation she is expected to complete about the birthing women under her care.

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Paul Farmer—a devastating loss

Monday Morning

Photo by John Ra, Partners in Health The Boston Globe reported that colleagues at Harvard said Farmer had been working and teaching at Rwanda’s University of Global Health Equity, which he co-founded. He had such an amazing global presence. I cannot believe Dr. Farmer is gone. At Gillings, we mourn his loss.

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Frontiers at the Charleston conference 2023: community, collaboration, and co-creation 

Frontiers

The transition towards a fully open access publishing landscape is essential to accelerate the scientific innovations urgently needed to solve the major global challenges we face (climate change, global health, socio-economic inequalities, AI technologies, etc.).

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Francophone Africa: bioethics terra incognita?

Global Bioethics Blog

Bioethics is predominantly expressed in English: the journals are in English, the majority of degree programs in bioethics are conducted in English, as are the vast majority of books, conferences, scholarship opportunities and so on. Designing a bioethics course makes this crystal clear: what readings are you going to assign?

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Weekly Health Digest: OpenAI Hallucinations, Kratom Addictions, Pediatric Preparedness, Sugar Deprivation

Exploring Health

Other individuals who have struggled with kratom addiction have created online podcasts, support groups, and books dedicated to quitting. Aryeh Stein, a global health professor at Emory University, says that changes in DNA could also explain these health outcomes. Adeoye is not alone in her experience.

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Bioethics and its better self

Global Bioethics Blog

She has written a whole book on it ( Observing Bioethics , with Judith Swazey), and recently published a talk entitled "Moving bioethics toward its better self: a sociologist's perspective", where she clearly and unapologetically has gone from observing bioethics to prescriptively stating what bioethicists ought to be doing.

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Anthrax: All You Need to Know About Bacillus Anthracis

Gideon

Viruses and bacteria in biological weapons have infected the storylines of science-fiction movies and books for decades. Is it a surprise that so many movies, TV shows, and books show a distinct theme of disease apocalypse? Bioterrorism and Hollywood seem to go hand-in-hand. What is Anthrax?