Succinct summary of what going tuition-free does for medical schools:

⬆️ selectivity
⬆️ U.S. News & World Report ranking

⬇️ % of students going into lower-paying specialties/primary care

The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel strengthens understanding & ethical management of #HealthWorker migration thru
✅data & information
✅international cooperation
Learn how CSOs can contribute to 5th round of reporting Agya Mahat

📢 Happening in 1 week: our webinar on civil society contributions to the 5th reporting round on the WHO Code of Practice.

To make the Code truly effective, it is essential that stories & realities of (migrating) health workers are included.

🖊️Join us: wemos.org/en/webinar-why…

The opening line says it all:

'The concept of “global health” is entrenched in the Western ideology of who is a human and the categorization of humanity'

frontiersin.org/journals/publi…

An assault on Rafah would be a strategic mistake, a political calamity & a humanitarian nightmare.

I appeal to all those with influence over Israel to do everything in their power to help avert even more tragedy.

Hot off the press - the new WHO Western Pacific Regional HRH framework published - tuned to #PHC and future health needs. The latest available evidence, in-depth bottleneck analyses and key actions in five areas. Now time to walk the talk!
iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…

'vaccination has averted 154 million deaths'

WHO launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974 to make life-saving vaccines available to all.

On the 50th anniversary of EPI, authors quantify the public health impact of vaccination: hubs.li/Q02w0Qpd0

Since BMJ Global Health doesn't want the world to hear about Global Health's silence during genocide, we will bring it directly to the people. We do not deserve to be called 'Global Health' in the face of genocide. A short thread below 🧵
medium.com/@daniel_krugma…

How an African university is connecting doctors to patients in remote communities

University of Global Health Equity PBS NewsHour Partners In Health

pbs.org/newshour/show/…

20 May 2024, 8 AM CEST

Towards a World Health Organization (WHO) Global Code of Practice that promotes the rights of the health and care workforce. #HRH policy debate as side event to the World Health Assembly #WHA77 (Geneva, in-person)

Website/registration
medicusmundi.org/wha77sideevent/

15 May 2024, 3 PM CEST

How can civil society contribute to the 5th round of reporting on the implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Code of Practice #HRH . Webinar organized by Wemos Public Services International and Medicus Mundi International Network

Websites/registration
wemos.org/en/webinar-why…
medicusmundi.org/code-webinar-2…

Medical students in #Gaza (who survived killing/abduction) resume their clinicals after a 7-month pause. Their medical schools are gone so their only option is work at the two barely functioning hospitals in mid and south of Gaza .. #MedTwitter #NotATarget

🔍The 5th round of reporting on the implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel has kicked off.

Join our webinar on 15 May to learn why & how civil society can contribute to this round.

Register: wemos.org/en/webinar-why…

I am deeply alarmed by reports of mass graves in Gaza.
 
Independent investigators must be allowed immediate access.
 
The families of the dead have a right to know what happened.

The world has a right to accountability for any violations of int’l law that may have taken place.

Doctors interrupt patients within 11 seconds

When uninterrupted, a patient will talk for 30-90 seconds

Community Health Workers Possible doing one of my favorite exercises: listen to someone for 90 secs without interrupting

Part of our National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study in rural Nepal

Nepal helps support the economies of the poorest parts of India by providing jobs to migrant labour from Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal.

scroll.in/article/106711…

Nepal is the seventh-largest remittance-sending country to the Indian economy.

By: Kanak Mani Dixit

Global evidence of persistent violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes: A systematic scoping review
Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Has development economics lost its moral compass? Thought-provoking and moving piece by Jishnu Das google.com/url?q=https://…

Who leads? Who controls? Who benefits from global health?

PLOS Global Public Health paper calls for 'shifting the balance of decision-making power, redistributing resources, & holding research funders & other power-holders accountable'

Ramya K Rajat Khosla David McCoy

journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

At a clinic in Jhapa, doctors prescribed a one-year-old with a common cold, the steroid Prednisolone. When the cold persisted, the boy’s parents bought the medicine over the counter. This went on for 3.5 years until the child was unable to walk.
nepalitimes.com/here-now/pande…