Global Health Hub: news and blogosphere aggregator » Featured Videos http://www.globalhealthhub.org Keeping up with global health & development news, blogosphere, forums, events, jobs and more Sat, 18 May 2013 16:49:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 South Africa Service Uses Text Messaging to Help Expectant Mothers http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/05/13/south-africa-service-uses-text-messaging-to-help-expectant-mothers/ http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/05/13/south-africa-service-uses-text-messaging-to-help-expectant-mothers/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 12:40:53 +0000 GHHub http://www.globalhealthhub.org/?p=96057 An innovative program combining maternity advice and mobile phones is launching in South Africa, and could affect the lives of millions of mothers and babies. The service has already been launched in Bangladesh, and will soon come to India.

 

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]]> http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/05/09/global-immunization-despite-successes-much-more-to-do/feed/ 0 China’s H7N9 Bird Flu: How Concerned Should We Be? – YouTube http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/05/02/chinas-h7n9-bird-flu-how-concerned-should-we-be-youtube/ http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/05/02/chinas-h7n9-bird-flu-how-concerned-should-we-be-youtube/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 14:48:11 +0000 GHHub http://www.globalhealthhub.org/?p=94578 Yanzhong Huang, director of global health studies at Seton Hall University, talks with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker about the new strain of bird flu in China and how the government and citizens are preparing to combat the virus as 7 deaths have been reported out of 21 known cases.

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]]> http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/05/01/female-genital-mutilation-still-widespread-in-egypt/feed/ 0 Kony 2013: The Hunt Quietly Continues http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/04/24/kony-2013-the-hunt-quietly-continues/ http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/04/24/kony-2013-the-hunt-quietly-continues/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:54:00 +0000 Humanosphere http://www.globalhealthhub.org/?p=93455 Despite efforts by Uganda, the United States, the AU and other partners, LRA warlord Joseph Kony remains hidden in the jungles that span the Central African Republic (CAR) and its neighbors. A recent coup in the CAR slowed down the effort that has had trouble finding the rebel leader. Uganda suspended its efforts in early … Continue reading →

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GBD Webcast | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

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Video Platform Video Management Video Solutions Video Player On Tuesday I traveled to the United Nations to talk to UNICEF’s Executive Board and also to meet with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on moving forward with the important work that we do together. These meetings are key to delivering results because our UN colleagues and we are committed to working closely together. Making that happen requires many things, including a big dose of humility. Please watch the video for more on this. read more

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Lant Pritchett discussed a new working paper, which reframes the impact evaluation debate. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) has always been an element of implementing organizations’ accountability to their funders, and recently there has been a push for much greater rigor in evaluations to isolate causal impacts and enable more ‘evidence based’ approaches to accountability and budgeting. Pritchett and his co-author extend the idea of impact evaluation, and show that the techniques of impact evaluation can be directly useful to implementers, rather than a potentially threatening accountability mechanism. They introduce the concept of experiential learning (“e”), which allows implementing agencies to leverage monitoring data to search across alternative project designs. Within-project variations in design can serve as their own counter-factual, dramatically reducing the incremental cost of evaluation and increasing the usefulness of evaluation to implementers

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]]> http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/01/21/cgdev-video-its-all-about-mee-project-design-by-experiential/feed/ 0 Watch the A to Z of Epidemiology http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/01/21/watch-the-a-to-z-of-epidemiology/ http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/01/21/watch-the-a-to-z-of-epidemiology/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:00:00 +0000 PSIHealthyLives http://www.globalhealthhub.org/?p=83362 This little animation comes to you from blogger Tom Scott. Click through to watch the video.

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First launched on World AIDS Day in 2004, this film captures what it means to be women in a world of AIDS – a world where many women have little say about relationships. About sex. About condoms. And few ways to protect themselves against HIV.

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One of global health’s neglected children…
Live Facebook chat December 5 will feature (EST):
10 – 11 a.m.: Dr. Eric Krakauer, palliative medicine, Harvard Medical School
10-11 a.m.: Dr. Lucrecia Peinado, Director, UICC Cervical Cancer Initiative
11 – noon: Dr. Jackson Orem, Director, Uganda Cancer Institute
Noon – 1:30 p.m.: Amy Banham, oncology program coordinator, Partners in Health
2:30 – 4 p.m.: Joanne Silberner, journalist “Cancer’s New Battleground” (theworld.org/cancer)
3 – 4 p.m.: Dr. Corey Casper, director, Uganda Cancer Institute/Fred Hutchinson Center Cancer AllianceHosted by PRI’s The World, Partners in Health and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

]]> http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/11/29/cancer-in-the-developing-world-pritheworld-pih/feed/ 1 Closing the Gap Between Evidence to Action in Global Health http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/11/18/closing-the-gap-between-evidence-to-action-in-global-health/ http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/11/18/closing-the-gap-between-evidence-to-action-in-global-health/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:30:14 +0000 GHHub http://www.globalhealthhub.org/?p=75733 Gavin Yamey at the recent TEDxSF

Head of the Evidence to Policy arm of the Global Health Group at UCSF.

]]> http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/11/18/closing-the-gap-between-evidence-to-action-in-global-health/feed/ 0 Building a Global Research Culture – YouTube http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/11/08/building-a-global-research-culture-youtube/ http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/11/08/building-a-global-research-culture-youtube/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:06:52 +0000 GHHub http://www.globalhealthhub.org/?p=73890 Supported by the Elsevier Foundation, Librarians Without Borders® (LWB) teams up with ITOCA to train librarians, doctors and teachers at the University of Swaziland. Since launch, the LWB program has equipped hundreds of information professionals and researchers in dozens of developing countries with the necessary skills to exploit the electronic resources available through Research4Life.

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]]> http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/11/08/building-a-global-research-culture-youtube/feed/ 0 Novartis: Court Case in India Begins (MSF Video) http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/10/31/novartis-court-case-in-india-begins-msf-video/ http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/10/31/novartis-court-case-in-india-begins-msf-video/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:28:00 +0000 APHA http://www.globalhealthhub.org/?p=72782 This post was written by Nicolle Rueras. A recent court case between the Indian Government and pharmaceutical company, Novartis, has caused a stir in the global community. Novartis is challenging Section 3(d) of India’s Patent Act, which requires companies to prove that their drug is more successful than alternative treatments for a disease to receive or extend a patent. To get around this regulation, many companies begin “evergreening” – making minor changes to a drug that may not improve its efficacy but claim it does in order to extend its patent. If Novartis succeeds, this may open the door for other companies to follow suit, ultimately driving up prices for crucial medicines produced in India and needed around the world

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]]> http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/10/31/novartis-court-case-in-india-begins-msf-video/feed/ 0 Video: Mozambique Youth Seeks to ‘Reclaim the Condom’ http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/10/30/video-mozambique-youth-seeks-to-reclaim-the-condom/ http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/10/30/video-mozambique-youth-seeks-to-reclaim-the-condom/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:20:00 +0000 PSIHealthyLives http://www.globalhealthhub.org/?p=72624 A young sexual health councilor named Sheila Manjate in Maputo wants to reclaim how condoms are sold and marketed. She believes that condoms should be sold as contraceptives and made appealing to youth. Watch her story above.

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