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Apr 4, 2014
6 min

Design thinking and public health: an interview with IDEO Public Health Specialist Carla Lopez

Back in the day, Carla and I were neighbours and classmates at UNC SPH. Carla since went on to work for PSI in Haiti and Papua New Guinea...

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Apr 4, 2014
3 min

Does public health practice punish the poor?

“The quasi-religious belief in the power of the individual to overcome their own problems, embedded deeply in Anglo-American culture, and...

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Feb 15, 2014
3 min

Dallas Buyer's Club: Getting a Public Health Education at the Movies

A movie about an AIDS-riven Texan “good-old boy” who distributes unapproved drugs, is a clear Oscar contender, and a public health...

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Jan 5, 2014
3 min

Reimagining Public Health Education

What is the value of the “global” in “global health”? “Global health is an attitude. It is a way of looking at the world. It is about the...

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Aug 19, 2013
7 min

Innovations in Monitoring: Biometrics

Who is who? Robust personal identification is an important part of service provision and patient tracking across the continuum of care....

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Jun 14, 2013
3 min

The Fun and Games of Social Networks. A Review of Connected.

Christakis and Fowler have written a book (actually, a while ago, it was published in 2010) compiling available research on the power of...

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May 31, 2013
3 min

Building the Nursing Cadre: The Promise of M-Learning

Nurses are one of the key building blocks of the health system; and comprise roughly 30% of the health workforce.[1] Tackling any health...

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Apr 8, 2013
2 min

Making Maps

I have always loved sitting with an atlas on my lap, tracing my finger across different maps and plotting my next journey; by camel...

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Apr 2, 2013
7 min

Best resources on scale up, replication and institutionalization….

**Updated in 2017, including a new resource on scaling up social enterprises, see below. When we look at current inequities in access to...

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Mar 23, 2013
8 min

Most inspiring public health books…

I always love the Christmas and New Year season, when all the “best books of the year” lists come out in all the newspapers. So I...

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