Health beyond the horizon
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If you’re anything like me, you can’t get in and out of a supermarket without spending twice as much as you planned. Whatsmore, you always leave with three or four things you don’t really need and never…
I might be a doctor, but actually I wasn’t always medically-focused. In fact, in my final year of High School, I was captain for the environment. A young college leader, I was passionate about the sustainability…
An election period is a time when we look to our leaders for bold, visionary action and innovative policy. A time to re-imagine our society and create new solutions to our most-pressing challenges. A moment…
In hospitals around the nation, and across the world, one can find an impressive collection of machines. Complex, expensive and health-creating – and as the famous Monty Python sketch goes, even the odd…
Over the past months, as part of a global team of young people, we have been developing new ways to bring attention to the world’s leading cause of mortality and disability. NCDs, or non-communicable diseases…
In life, the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ is usually very blurred. When it comes to food, trying to decide whether something is ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’, is even harder. Red meat, for example, is…
Wrapping-up after a sensational week in Mongolia. Here to film a short-film for our recently-launched health advocacy initiative, we have spent the days profiling a young, inspiring, local, health change-maker…
A few weeks back, at the World Health Assembly, World Bank President Dr Jim Kim said the world is at a crossroads when it comes to health. A defining moment in history, from which our future trajectory…
A few weeks ago, a reader commented on my column and accused me of not paying attention to men’s health. So, men, this article is for you… And your health. It is a sad fact that in modern day society…
This week, the eyes and ears of much of the world once again focus on Geneva for the 66th World Health Assembly. The annual, global meeting of Ministers of Health held at the World Health Organization…