March 19th, 2010
Cross-posted at Change.org’s Global Poverty blog (new name for their global health blog).
What do you get when you ask 25 leaders to come up with a 15-year strategic plan for the U.S. on global health?
New ideas for bureaucracy! Well, that plus a number of other thought-provoking recommendations. The Center for Strategic and International [...]
March 4th, 2010
I am now a weekly contributor to the Change.org Global Health blog. Here is a link to my first post, “Can a piece of cloth keep girls in school?“
February 1st, 2010
I posted the syllabus for my upcoming Public Health Informatics II course: Health Mapping in a Digital Age. This workshop is for students in the NYU Master’s Program in Global Public Health.
This one-day workshop is designed to give students an overview of current trends in health mapping; knowledge of state-of-the-art tools, methods, and [...]
January 26th, 2010
A new essay in PLoS Medicine outlines the critical need for more investment in the collection, management, and use of health data. The co-authors of this piece represent eight major global health agencies, including the WHO, the Global Fund, GAVI, UNFPA, the Human Development Network at the World Bank, UNAIDS, UNICEF, and the [...]