Mapping Health Facilities in Crises – Reflections and Directions
I am wrapping up my thesis research (finally!), which focuses on the mapping of health facilities in crisis settings. Over the past 3 years, I have spent countless hours looking at datasets, GPS...
View ArticleHealth Systems in Humanitarian Emergencies – Monday October 22 at the...
TweetMy colleagues from the Canadian Red Cross and the Pan-American Health Organization and I will be presenting a workshop today at 13:30 at the Canadian Conference on Global Health in Ottawa. The...
View ArticleEliminating the Harms of Counterfeit and Substandard Medicines in Anesthesia
TweetPoor-quality medicines are found all over the world, and can be of poor quality for a variety of reasons: they might be made with poor-quality chemicals, they may contain toxic substances instead...
View ArticleWhy did it take an Ebola outbreak to realize the importance of health systems?
I work in an area of research and practice that garners immense public interest when terrible things happen: wars, famines, disease outbreaks, natural disasters. There are far too many overlooked...
View ArticleWe have ignored supply chains for essential medicines and devices, and that’s...
I recently wrote of the need to understand the Ebola epidemic from the perspective of health systems. As the epidemic continues to spiral out of control throughout Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea,...
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