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What Is a Global Health Professional?

Tulane Public Health Blog

While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity. Such a response is also essential for creating a more equitable global health community.

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Proposing a new indicator to assess health disparities: measuring inequalities in causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

Much is known about the main causes of death and how mortality has been shifting from most deaths around the world being caused by communicable diseases towards most being due to non-communicable causes. However, less is known about the heterogeneity in these causes of death.

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Telehealth on the line: What could happen this spring?

Association of Health Care Journalists

global health policy, including in areas such as drug pricing, medical devices, global health security and non-communicable diseases. He is a sought-after policy expert and frequently quoted in major media coverage of telehealth.

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The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO

Your Local Epidemiologist

The decision raises important questions about the organization’s value and effectiveness, but it also underscores its irreplaceable role in global health—despite its flaws. To promote health, keep people safe, and serve vulnerable populations worldwide. Its mission? Then, there is a scope problem. The result?