Authoritative insights by 2018 PEAH contributors added steam to debate on how to settle the conflicting issues that still impair equitable access to health by discriminated population settings worldwide
by Daniele Dionisio*
PEAH – Policies for Equitable Access to Health
2018: a Year in Review through PEAH Contributors’ Takes
As 2018 draws to a close, I wish to thank the top thinkers and academics who enthusiastically contributed articles over the year. Their authoritative insights meant a lot to PEAH scope while adding steam to debate on how to settle the conflicting issues that still impair equitable access to health by discriminated population settings worldwide.
Find out below the relevant links:
Transitioning from Global Fund Grants to Domestic Funds: a New Opportunity for Strengthening Health Products’ Procurement and Supply Chain Systems in Middle Income Countries? by Barbara Milani, Independent Consultant, Pharmaceuticals and Public Health – Programme & Policy Specialist
‘Lifestyle Drift’, Air Pollution and the World Health Organization by Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy, Newcastle University
The UK is Finally Cracking Down on Unreported Clinical Trials. Now Other European Countries Must Take Action Too by Till Bruckner, Founder of TranspariMED
Social Capital Formation in the West African Ebola Pandemic: Tapping Faith-Community Trust Reserves is an Essential Tactical Strategy in Outbreak Control by Richard A. Nisbett, E Julu Swen, M. Scott Gilpin, University of Liberia-PIRE Center Africa, Discipleship Resources International of the United Methodist Church, Liberia and Wesley College and Foundation, Tanzania
Equity in Investments – a Need to Map the Research Landscape for Health by Michael Head, Clinical Informatics Research Unit and Global Health Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK
Why Health in All Policies Is a Necessity? by Gisela Abbam, Director, Strategic Partnerships Abt Associates
Discrimination and Stereotype in the Global-North and -South Nation-States: the Major Interlope to Universal Health Coverage for Refugees and Other Vulnerable Immigrant Persons by Michael Ssemakula, Health Rights Researcher & Advocate, Human Rights Research Documentation Center (HURIC) & PHM-Network, Uganda
Private Players in the Growth Paradox of Health Service Provision and Advancement in Uganda by Michael Ssemakula, Health Rights Researcher & Advocate, Human Rights Research Documentation Center (HURIC) & PHM-Network, Uganda
The Global Implications of the Gag Rule and its Manifestations on Reproductive Health Rights in Uganda by Denis Bukenya and Michael Ssemakula, Health Rights Researchers & Advocates, Human Rights Research Documentation Center (HURIC), and PHM-Network, Uganda
Falsified and Substandard Medicines: Threat to the SDGs – but Who’s Watching, Caring or Acting? by David Patterson, Principal Consultant, Health, Law and Development Consultants (HLDC), The Hague, Netherlands
Caning of LGBT Persons – Implications for Public Health and the Economy by Fifa Rahman, Postgraduate Researcher (PhD) at University of Leeds, UK
The Untold Story About Counterfeit Medicines And Its Effects On The Right To Health In Uganda by Denis Bukenya and Michael Ssemakula, Health Rights Researchers & Advocates, Human Rights Research Documentation Center (HURIC), and PHM-Network, Uganda
The NHS Postcode Lottery: How the Decision-Making Power of Clinical Commissioning Groups is Preventing Standardised, Equal Access to the Abbott Freestyle Libre in England by Rebecca Barlow-Noone, Student of Medical Sciences at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds (UK)
Accessibility to Medicines in Uganda by Denis Bukenya and Michael Ssemakula, Health Rights Researchers & Advocates, Human Rights Research Documentation Center (HURIC), and PHM-Network, Uganda
Public Finance and Public Health by Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy, Newcastle University
Promoting Some Literacy on the Health Systems of Countries of Origin of Migrants in Europe by Yves Charpak, MD, PhD, Consultant, Vice-president of the French Public-Health Association
Health and Climate Change: a Third World War with No Guns by Juan E Garay, David Chiriboga, Nefer Kelley, Adam Garay, Equity Movement
Challenges and Solutions for the Latinx Population to Effectively Participate in Clinical Trials by Karen Mancera Cuevas, Associate Director, Research Projects at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago USA
International HPV Awareness Day by Corie Leifer, Give Love Not HPV Campaign Coordinator, International Papillomavirus Society
Governments’ Failure to Curb Rampant Waste in Medical Research Threatens SDG Health Targets by Till Bruckner, Founder of TranspariMED
Fair Research Partnerships in European Commission Funded Research by Carel IJsselmuiden and Kirsty Klipp, Council on Health Research for Development – COHRED
Who is Taking Responsibility for the Quality-Assurance of Medicines Supplied in Humanitarian and Development Programs? A Proposal from Belgium by Raffaella Ravinetto, Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium
Policy Implications for Community-based Interventions to Strengthen Healthcare Delivery, Based Upon a Formative Study of Community Capacity in Urban Monrovia, Liberia Corresponding Author: Richard A. Nisbett, University of Liberia-Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation, Africa Center (UL-PIRE), WVS Tubman University, Harper Liberia
Corrupt Medical Practices in Germany by Christiane Fisher, Medical Director, No Free Lunch, Germany MEZIS, Member of the German Ethics Council
Bridging the Gaps in Clinical Guideline to Care in Pregnancy for Women Using Psychoactive Substances by Grana Ziia, AFEW-Kyrgyzstan
Opium and its Association with Cardio-Vascular Disease by Junior Bazile, Program Director at New York Harm Reduction Educators, Research Consultant and Online Community Moderator at Global Health Delivery Project, Harvard University
Finally in the (Global Health) Spotlight, Nurses Now! by Clara Affun Adegbulu, Intern and Researcher, Health Policy Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium; Masters (MPH) student, University of Vienna, Austria
Global Health and Occupied Palestine by Angelo Stefanini, Centre for International Health, University of Bologna (Italy)
Overcoming Public Health’s Perception Challenges by Lawrence C. Loh, Adjunct Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and Director of Programs at The 53rd Week Ltd
The Strategic Functions of Nutrients in Preventing Tropical Diseases by Adrian Boruch, Project Manager, ALVO Medical, Poland
What Public Health Policy Can Learn from the Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman by Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy, Newcastle University
Understanding the Systems that Influence Distribution Channels for Drugs in Uganda by Denis Bukenya Joseph, Health Rights Researcher & Advocate, Human Rights Research Documentation Center (HURIC) & PHM-Network, Uganda
On Health Inequalities, Davos, and the Deadly Neoliberalism by Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy, Newcastle University
Challenges in Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan by Nighat Khan, Affiliate at Global eHealth Academy University of Edinburgh
The contributions highlighted above add to PEAH internal articles published throughout the year. Find the links below:
The Contradictory Case of EU SPC Mechanism and Waiver by Daniele Dionisio
Uganda: the Big Challenge of Maternal and Child Health by Pietro Dionisio
Interview to Saliou Diallo by Daniele Dionisio
La Salute Sostenibile (Pensiero Scientifico Ed. 2018) review by Daniele Dionisio
Moreover, as part of PEAH scope and aims, a new column titled ‘Focus on: Uganda’s Health Issues‘ has been set up. A space open to contribution articles from everywhere, this column aims to serve as an observatory of challenging health issues in Uganda from a comprehensive view encompassing the policies, strategies and practices of all involved actors.
In the meantime, our weekly page Health Breaking News Links has been serving as a one year-long point of reference for PEAH contents, while turning the spotlight on the latest challenges by trade and governments rules to the equitable access to health in resource-limited settings.
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*Daniele Dionisio is a member of the European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverty-Related Diseases. He is an advisor for “Medicines for the Developing Countries” for the Italian Society for Infectious and Tropical Diseases (SIMIT), and former director of the Infectious Disease Division at the Pistoia City Hospital (Italy). Dionisio is Head of the research project PEAH – Policies for Equitable Access to Health. He may be reached at d.dionisio@tiscali.it https://twitter.com/DanieleDionisio