Well TEDMED has come to a close for this year, but not before another full and challenging day. Soon, a smorgasbord of talks and highlights will be up online for all to feast on. Before that happens, though…
- Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
There is a lot of discussion about data here at TEDMED 2013, and this is no great surprise. Big data, small data, open data, crowdsourced data - this is the information backbone of science and the key…
Well TEDMED is off and running and what a sensational start! More than a thousand innovators and thinkers from the health space worldwide have descended on the JFK Centre in Washington DC to make incredible…
All this week, the eyes and ears of the health innovation space will be firmly fixed on Washington DC, for the annual TEDMED conference. TEDMED sees the convening of technologists, business leaders, doctors…
This week, I had the pleasure of attending the Global Health Beyond 2015 Conference, in Stockholm… A vibrant and very Scandinavian event, I wanted to share some reflections and “sound bites” - as [Prof…
They are most often associated with Western excess but diabetes, heart disease, cancers and chronic lung diseases are the leading cause of preventable death in the developing world. To shed some light…
In the 18 months since the 2011 UN High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), increasing discussion has surrounded this vast and growing burden. Diabetes, heart diseases, cancers and lung…
Last Friday was International Women’s Day, an annual event in the calendar aiming to highlight the important role of women and girls in our society - and all societies. This day celebrates women, acknowledges…
The traditional adage in the world of medical education, is to “see one, do one, teach one”… Medicine, at its fundamental core, is a profession best learnt through experience.. Best mastered through engaging…
The concept is simple but achieving it presents an enormous challenge.. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) will be in centre spotlight for the political, development and health communities in 2013. Set to…
This article was written by Toni Kuguru, Sebastian Rodríguez Llamazares, Alessandro Demaio and A/Prof Felicia Knaul. This year more than half of the nearly 13 million new cancer cases diagnosed worldwide…
Fast food is marketed as exciting and family-friendly, it’s marketed using bright colours and catchy names, it’s even marketed alongside sporting events including our national sports and the Olympics…
This is likely to cause controversy, but I am going to draw a line in the sand. We have a number of massive Global Health challenges to address as a society, but to me, there are none more pressing, threatening…
Coming to the business end of a PhD on NCDs, I often get asked by colleagues and peers “what are Non-Communicable Diseases?”.. Let’s explore.. NCDs, or Non-Communicable Diseases, literally mean diseases…
In 2012, the global health community is at a crossroads – politically, socially, economically and technologically. Facing some of the largest health challenges in history, we must critically re-think our…
In 1996, the United Nations together with its global technical body on health - the World Health Organization (WHO) - established a new UN initiative charged with the mitigation and prevention of HIV and…
Put simply, social determinants of health (SDoH) are the “causes behind the causes”. The upstream social and economic factors that largely but insidiously dictate the health - and disease - of individuals…
Recently, I was delivering a lecture to 500 young, inspired students. I made a clear and alarming point that the current young generation in many societies including our own, could be the first in history…
We are in the midst of a global epidemic of chronic diseases – diabetes, heart disease, cancers and respiratory disease are on the rise across the world. Posing a real and increasing threat to health and…
This week, we celebrate open access week – an event aimed at bringing attention to this rapidly emerging form of scientific publication and its ethical imperatives. Traditionally, knowledge breakthroughs…
What causes two out of every three deaths in the world, has been described by the Director-General of the World Health Organisation as “a slow motion disaster” and by the Secretary-General of the UN a…
The eyes and ears of the global health world were firmly fixed on Geneva last week for the 2012 World Health Assembly, the annual meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) member states. One of…
We’ve been reminded this month of the United States’ success in finally finding Osama bin Laden. But one thing missing in the media coverage was the allegation that the CIA established a fake hepatitis…
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