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Routine immunization in Pakistan: comparison of multiple data sources and identification of factors associated with vaccination
AbstractBackground. Within Pakistan, estimates of vaccination coverage with the pentavalent vaccine, oral polio vaccine (OPV) and measles vaccine (MV) in 2011
Where You're Born Even Within A Country Still Matters
Fewer children are dying globally, but a new study finds geographic disparities still exist within many countries.
Beyond Legalization — Dilemmas Physicians Confront Regarding Aid in Dying | NEJM
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Beyond Legalization — Dilemmas Physicians Confront Regarding Aid in Dying
Offline: The necessity of the engaged scientist
What should we expect of scientists in society? To do great science for sure. But
to demand more is surely unreasonable. When medical journals publish research on war,
the climate crisis, migration, Brexit, President Trump, and even notions of...
The Winged Scourge 1943 Disney film movie Malaria
The "Winged Scourge", a 1943 film produced by Disney for the Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs. In the film, the Seven Dwarves of Snow Whi...
Poor People Are Still Sicker Than The Rich In Germany, Despite Universal Health Care
Even with generous health coverage, sizable health disparities persist between Hamburg's wealthier and poorer neighborhoods. Crowding, poor air quality and fewer physicians plague poorer areas.
UW names Population Health building after Swedish physician and ‘very serious possibilist’ Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is known internationally for his captivating analysis of global health data, for discovering a paralyzing disease in Africa and explaining its socio-economic causes, and for his intense...
Data on child deaths are a call for justice
To save young lives, governments must support families, respect women and tackle inequality, says Michelle Bachelet.
Improving immunisation coverage in rural India: clustered randomised controlled evaluation of immunisation campaigns with and without incentives
Objective To assess the efficacy of modest non-financial incentives on immunisation rates in children aged 1-3 and to compare it with the effect of only improving the reliability of the supply of services.
Design Clustered randomised controlled...
PBF: Application Process
All submitted application materials will be reviewed by a team of faculty, senior researchers, and members of the Education and Training Office at IHME.
2019 REACH Award Finalists
Meet the 15 finalists for the 2019 REACH Awards and 35 other innovators, advocates and unsung heroes working on the frontlines of disease elimination.
Jen Heemstra on the importance of relationships in science
Your career is as much about the people as it is about the research
We did the sums on South Africa's mental health spend. They're not pretty
Less than 1 in 10 people living with a mental health condition in South Africa receive the care that they need.
Wellcome Open Research Article: Malaria Data by District: An open-source web application for increasing access to malaria information.
Read the latest article version by Sean Tomlinson, Andy South, Joshua Longbottom, at Wellcome Open Research.
Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant – LSHTM GIS and Spatial Research
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to...
The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You
The 400 wealthiest Americans now pay a lower rate than the middle class.
While Searching for the Perfect Vaccine, Keep Using the Very Good
The anti-vaccine movement fails to live up to its own rhetoric
$100M health initiative aims to democratize data science
Together with partners, the Rockefeller Foundation is working to improve access to data science tools for frontline health workers to prevent 6 million maternal and child deaths in 10 countries by 2030.
Universal health coverage: The numbers behind the headlines
At the end of this posting, which is mostly about universal health coverage, please see the update on actions that, if you are in the United States, you can take to create some measure of accountability for those responsible for the genocide of the...
Nancy Fullman
Eric A Friedman of @oneillinstitute, I'd love to meet you:
"The range of uncertainty [of #UHC estimates] is significant....come 2030, how will we actually know whether universal health coverage has been achieved?"
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Identifying residual hotspots and mapping lower respiratory infection morbidity and mortality in African children from 2000 to 2017
Geospatial modelling shows an overall decline in morbidity and mortality due to lower respiratory infections in Africa from 2000 to 2017, but also identifies subnational areas with residual high risk.