Job posting in global health journalism. My friend Keith Seinfeld sent this along. He's part of a new venture being funded by a grant via the Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broa...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2010/04/jobs-global-health-reporterblogger-in.html
Two American non-profit organizations file suit against Nutriset, contesting the patent for Plumpy'Nut. This has certainly been a long time coming, as my previous reports and links on this patent...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2010/04/nutriset-sued-over-plumpynut-patent.html
The debate over Plumpy'Nut and whether it should have been patented in the first place continues. Now US food company Tabatchncik Fine Foods is talking about creating its own peanut-based therap...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/11/plumpynut-tabatchnick-takes-on-nutriset.html
Here is the prepared text for the talk I gave yesterday at the American Journal of Nurses conference in Chicago. The slides to go with it are available here and here . Nurses and the Web: Staki...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/10/nurses-and-web-text-for-my-talk.html
Here are the slides for the talk I am giving on Tuesday (Oct. 6, 2009) at the American Journal of Nursing conference in Chicago. They probably don't make a lot of sense without the text that acco...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/10/nurses-and-web-slides-for-my-talk.html
Stephanie Nolan, the South Asia Correspondent for Canada's Globe and Mail, and I have been corresponding on Twitter about the goings on in India with respect to Plumpy'Nut, RUTFs and official gov...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-on-cipla-plumpynut-and-india.html
More on the Plumpy'Nut controversy in India . Cipla, a company more famous for its generic versions of AIDS drugs, makes pre-packaged food supplements for export to Africa, according to Sumana Na...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/08/india-plumpynut-and-cipla.html
The Indian government has told Unicef to stop using Plumpy'Nut for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in that country over concerns about importing and becoming dependent on "foreign food...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/08/india-blocks-use-of-plumpynut.html
Multimedia is not easy--takes much, much longer to create than pure text--and requires more thought, cooperation and collaboration. At each stage of creating the Malawi video that is up on CNN's...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/08/planning-is-key-to-good-multimedia.html
I'm happy to report that my story and video of the crippling shortage of nurses in Malawi has now been published in CNN's new health section "Vital Signs." Embedded video from CNN Video I act...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-malawi-nurses-video-featured-on-cnn.html
Just finished talking with Diana Mason and Barbara Glickstein about patent issues and Plumpy'Nut on WBAI. Intriguingly, the conversation broadened out to food and water issues generally. Here's ...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/07/plumpynut-wbai-radio-interview.html
Some thoughts on the unspoken history in an article from the Wall Street Journal about cost-effectiveness in global health. I have been spending more time these past several weeks on Twitter, th...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/07/unintended-irony-about-cost.html
Two carefully researched reports in the Lancet argue that the world is not getting its money's worth in global health. The first , from the World Health Organization, says that a focus on making...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/06/do-we-get-our-moneys-worth-in-global.html
Sandi Doughton of the Seattle Times lifts the lid a bit on one of the more exclusive clubs in global health--the Health-8 or H8--meeting this week in Seattle. Her report documents one more step...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/06/health-eight-meet-in-seattle.html
I am happy to report that a photo-essay about my Malawi project is the cover story for the June issue of the American Journal of Nursing . That great cover photo of Mphatso Nguluwe was taken ...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/06/malawi-project-featured-in-american.html
Here is another example of why we need more independent reporting on global health and development. A study from the Public Library of Science found that many global health initiatives are still ...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/06/hiding-broken-practices-behind-new.html
To maintain credibility, news coverage of global health and development issues must be independent because who pays and why dramatically influences the process of what gets told. This is a sleepe...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/05/who-pays-for-global-health-news-and-why.html
And now for a little global health gossip--in between reading dispatches from the World Health Assembly , which is meeting in Geneva this week . . . Barbara Hogan is out as South Africa's Health...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/05/barbara-hogan-paul-farmer-eric-goosby.html
Reuters reports that three girls' schools in Afghanistan have now been the targets of improvised gas attacks . Five girls fell into comas for a short while after the most recent attack, which occ...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/05/afghanistan-first-acid-now-gas-attacks.html
Is there a way to combine human and technological intelligence to figure out what is going on in a tiny section of Sri Lanka, which suffered heavy bombardment this past weekend? Can you, dear rea...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/05/crisis-mapping-sri-lankan-fighting.html
Several folks, after reading my last post on DDT , have asked me about DDT's health effects on people. Their point: while DDT may prevent some people from dying of malaria isn't there a cost to t...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/05/human-health-effects-of-ddt.html
What's missing from the latest news about the World Health Organization, DDT and malaria? Context! Context! Context! Namely, if DDT had been used from the time of its invention only for public h...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/05/back-and-forth-on-ddt-again.html
Twitter does not have to be yet another echo chamber—provided you are selective about who you follow. By treating Twitter as a filtering device and NOT a broadcast medium, I think I have a bett...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-i-use-twitter-without-being.html
There are still a lot of unanswered questions about the new human swine flu that everyone has been talking—and sometimes obsessing—about. US government officials keep telling us to “hope fo...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/04/swine-flu-stocking-up-on-soup-just-in.html
Is it me—or has there been more uninformed reporting than usual over the past few days about the developing outbreak of human swine flu? Could it be the wholesale exodus of experienced health r...
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/04/swine-flu-getting-facts-right.html