Author: Urmimala Basu, Post-doctoral research fellow, Harvard Medical School Excited, sobered, wandering, frustrated, grinding, cautiously optimistic, hopeful, survived, grateful. These words…
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post Synergizing the graduate and undergraduate research experiences in the lab
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post World Prematurity Day: Kangaroo Mother Care in India is a game-changer, notes from implementation research for scaling up KMC
By Arin Kar Prematurity and low-birth weight has been a persistent and major killer of newborns. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), a low-cost…
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post Help Your Fellow Scientists: Appeal from Ciencia Puerto Rico
PLOSBLOGS is reposting the following appeal from Ciencia Puerto Rico to support Puerto Rican scientists and medical practitioners in their efforts to aid their people…
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post News & Opinion: New W.H.O. Director General is Dr. Tedros of Ethiopia
In this post we offer the latest news on the election of a new Director General for The World Health Organization, beginning…
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post Silent killers: the scourge of noncommunicable diseases in Africa by Kofi Gunu
By Kofi Gunu When global health leaders gather in Geneva this month to elect a new head of the World Health…
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post Where do the (3) candidates for the next WHO Director General stand on the most challenging global health issues of the decade?
As part of our commitment to the communication of global health research, PLOSBLOGS is pleased to host this Q&A with the three final…
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post Opinion: Who should lead WHO (Pt. 3 of 3)? Dr. David Nabarro, “a frontline clinician and global health leader”
[Featured image above: New Guinea Ebola vaccine trials; WHO/S. Hawkey] The views expressed in this blog post belong solely to its author…
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post #WorldMalariaDay: can nets and sprays keep the bugs away?
By Abraar Karan MD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Many nights, I wondered what was worse: risking a bite from…
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post Opinion: Who should lead WHO (pt 2 of 3)? Why I support Pakistan’s “Great Reformer”
The views expressed in this blog post belong solely to its author and do not necessarily reflect the views of PLOS or…
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post Trump wants deep cuts to international aid: the uncalculated costs of global health insecurity
By Ana Rita Sequeira In the last decade, the United States has played a leading funder role in the preparedness and…
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post Why Mentors Matter: Global Health Research Mentorship in LMICs #WorldHealthDay2017
By Abraar Karan MD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Mentorship in global health is severely lacking for young leaders who…
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post Opinion: Who should lead WHO (Pt 1 of 3)? Dr. Tedros, nominee of the Government of Ethiopia.
The views expressed in this blog post belong solely to its author and do not necessarily reflect the views of PLOS or…