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BHGI sponsors global summit on international breast health

For women with breast cancer in low- and middle-resource countries and other medically underserved areas around the world, the need for supportive care and the consideration of quality-of-life issues are often overlooked.

2 Oct 2012

Maternal deaths among marginalized women could be prevented with access to care, information

"While reports from the United Nations as well as the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) indicate that maternal deaths are declining around the world, far too many women continue to die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth," Ana Langer, director of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health, writes in the Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog.

2 Oct 2012

U.S. investment in global health saves lives

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reflects on changes in U.S. global health diplomacy since taking office in this Global Health and Diplomacy opinion piece.

29 Sep 2012

CSIS report examines New Approaches to Global Health Cooperation

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) on Thursday released a report, titled "New Approaches to Global Health Cooperation," that "summarizes key observations and conclusions that emerged" from a November 2011 meeting co-hosted by CSIS and the Fiocruz Center for Global Health (CRIS) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the CSIS website reports.

29 Sep 2012

Funding neglected disease R&D beneficial to Europe, developing countries, report says

In this bulletin from Science Business, Karen Hoehn, vice executive director and director of international affairs at the German Foundation for World Population, highlights "a study by the independent research group Policy Cures, 'Saving Lives and Creating Impact: E.U. Investment in Poverty-Related and Neglected Disease.'"

29 Sep 2012

Domestic health reform receiving more attention than global health in U.S. presidential campaigns, Lancet reports

The Lancet examines the domestic health positions of President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney before briefly outlining their positions on global health.

29 Sep 2012

New partnership to provide access to contraceptives for more than 27M women

A new partnership announced today at the United Nations will make a safe, effective, long-acting, reversible method of contraception available to more than 27 million women in the world's poorest nations.

28 Sep 2012

Blogs recognize World Contraception Day

The following blog posts were published in recognition of World Contraception Day, observed annually on September 26.

28 Sep 2012

NPR blog examines Global Health Service Partnership

NPR's "Shots" blog profiles Vanessa Kerry, a physician and daughter of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), and her work to develop the Global Health Service Partnership to send nurses and doctors to work abroad in exchange for a pay-down in their student loans.

28 Sep 2012

USAID Office of Health Systems important for meeting global health goals

Ariel Pablos-Mendez, USAID assistant administrator for global health, writes in USAID's "IMPACTblog," "Recently, we reorganized the Global Health Bureau to establish an Office of Health Systems, which will be the hub for the Agency's worldwide leadership network of technical experts in health systems strengthening."

28 Sep 2012

Large donors dictating direction of global health research, financing, essay says

"When it comes to getting aid right, an all-too-familiar problem seems to be balancing the priorities of rich governments with what communities actually want," AlertNet reports in an article examining an essay written by Oxford University researcher Devi Sridhar and published in PLOS Medicine.

28 Sep 2012

World working together to end polio

In a post on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, foundation Co-Chair Bill Gates writes about traveling to New York this week to deliver a speech to the U.N. on polio eradication, one of the top five global health priorities as described by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

27 Sep 2012

Examining universal health coverage as post-2015 development goal

In the BMJ Groups blog, Amanda Glassman, director of the global health policy program at the Center for Global Development (CGD), and her colleagues at CGD examine "whether universal health coverage (UHC) as a post-2015 development goal is a good idea."

27 Sep 2012

University of Maryland, College Park, UMB announce collaborative school of public health

The University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) today announced a collaborative school of public health that will give graduate students at both institutions expanded opportunities in public health education, research, service, and training.

26 Sep 2012

Presidential candidates should address HIV epidemic more directly

Following the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in July, "delegates left Washington with a clear focus on achieving an AIDS-free generation," Chip Lyons, president and CEO of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, writes in the Huffington Post's "The Big Push" blog.

26 Sep 2012

Chinese innovations, resources could help create new global health products

In this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, Christine Rousseau, a program officer at the foundation, describes the importance of diagnostics in HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) care and treatment and writes, This brings me to the tremendous role that China's entrepreneurs can play as partners in global health.

26 Sep 2012