Tulane Public Health Blog

APRIL 14, 2024

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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Maternal Health Task Force

JANUARY 22, 2025

The interconnected challenges of maternal health, HIV, and healthcare inequities call for a paradigm shift in global health researchone that prioritizes regions like Mozambique and passes the torch to local actors. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 70% of global maternal deaths , yet only 1.3%

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International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Iñaki Permanyer and Júlia Almeida Calazans Policymakers and scholars are increasingly interested in monitoring and curbing health inequalities. Measuring how ‘similar’ or ‘dissimilar’ the different causes of death are can help us understand global health inequalities and patterns of mortality.

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Exploring Health

MARCH 12, 2025

A Tanzanian nurse on the screen explains the latest results from a hospitals new maternal health information system that Spangler helped implement. Spanglers passion for global health started at the age of 20, when she decided to pool her savings to study in Guatemala.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

MARCH 14, 2025

Prior to joining the New Jersey Department of Health, Dee was the Global Giving Lead for the philanthropic arm of a global health service company. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health and a Master of Public Health in Population Health Management and Leadership from Ohio State University.

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Exploring Health

JANUARY 17, 2025

Underutilized and Undervalued: Community Health Workers Are the Way Forward in Global Health Crises Community health workers reduce healthcare inequities around the world. While international health rights guarantee the right to health, this is not the lived reality for these populations.

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Health Education and Training Organizations Socioeconomic Status and Health Nutrition and Public Health Non-governmental Organizations 98

Global Bioethics Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Global health initiatives and programs in many universities often involve such missions, where medical students or faculty travel to a faraway lands (relatively resource-constrained, with high disease prevalence and fragile health infrastructure) and provide certain medical services, for awhile.

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