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Can we unplug global health education from The Matrix?

In this commentary, we compare the “red pill” versus “blue pill” versions of global health education which represents the choice to radically reimagine global health education or remain comfortable with the status quo, respectively

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TFW kindness and empathy are seen as partisan acts

You rolled over on genocide in Gaza, were told to keep quiet and obeyed. No matter what you say about Trump now, it just rings hollow.

When we look back at Trump’s impact on (global/public) health we’d see that the failure of our response began with the failure of our response on Gaza.

Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...

There are a number of authoritarian regimes who would pay to know who is doing human rights and women’s rights work in their countries. So they can kill them. What is Musk doing with all this data? edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

Happy #UHCDay

The Mortality Implications of a Unionized Career An emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this …

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67.

Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social

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My Life As a Homeless Man in America An extraordinary firsthand account.

This piece by a homeless journalist is as harrowing as everyone says. We are all much closer to homelessness than to being a multimillionaire, yet we treat the homeless with such cruelty. Just gut-wrenching www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Passport And Visa Privileges In Global Health The field of global health is extraordinarily unequal, with privileged people and institutions in the global North dominating all aspects of global health. One form of privilege, the passports and vis...

Global health can never be global because the global north is truly a “walled world” locking out everyone else

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"What power seeks to do is stop you. To stop you from being a threat, from righting an injustice. To stop you, it stops itself from knowing, it keeps itself innocent, ignorant, unaware, falsely. Not knowing is how it keeps itself in place, how it keeps injustice in place."

🌱 Oof, this essay.

What Gives You Hope for Health Equity? Health experts share what gives them hope for improving health for all.

Health experts share what gives them hope for improving health equity

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AMREF on LinkedIn: #cop29 #climate #health #diversity #inclusion #policy #voices #funding… | 17 comments This afternoon, at the sidelines of #COP29, the Wellcome Trust hosted a thought-provoking session on "Improving Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Evidence… | 17 comments on LinkedIn

"Inclusion [in policymaking] is an active process, which means it starts with budgeting."

❤️ Incisive words from Dr Githinji Gitahi www.linkedin.com/posts/amref_...

Thinking about how often even well-meaning folks try to fill a slot for 'diversity' with no $ for outreach, support, or participation

Emanuele Capobianco on LinkedIn: As I was leaving the WHO Foundation, I decided to take some time off to… | 17 comments As I was leaving the WHO Foundation, I decided to take some time off to realize one of my biggest dreams: traveling solo to Latin America. I officially became… | 17 comments on LinkedIn

It’s not often that I find a LinkedIn post truly inspiring & comforting, but loved this reflection from Dr Emanuele Capobianco today: www.linkedin.com/posts/emanue...

As someone who had the privilege of taking a career break, it’s refreshing to see a senior leader write about how rewarding it is. 💙

All three statements are true at the same time

Restorative Justice in Global Health - Centre for Development and the Environment An important shift is occurring in global health ethics. A field that used to be intensely concerned with questions of distributive justice increasingly sees calls for restorative justice emerge. This...

Thought-provoking blog examining calls for restorative justice in global health.

🌱 Restorative justice acknowledges historical conditions that shape inequalities & aligns more with lived experiences / envisions health justice beyond global health security & $ growth

www.sum.uio.no/english/rese...

A landscape from Northern Spain on a cloudy day. There are wildflowers along a rocky trail and rolling green hills in the background.

Hello again, world! 🌄 I left X a while ago but have missed having that space. Glad to here. :)

I walked the Camino de Santiago in April–May this year and haven't stopped talking about it since! Starting with that here too! Reflecting on my Camino is what gives me strength and hope in these times.