Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era
Community health workers were first trained in China as barefoot doctors almost a century ago. Since then, they have been trained in many countries throughout the… Read more »
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Meet the SDG3 researchers: Uduak Okomo
Dr. Uduak Okomo is Clinical Assistant Professor with the Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit at the Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. A… Read more »
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: the role of clinical studies in testing interventions
The UN aims to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, with all having equal rights to economic resources and improved resilience against social and environmental shocks.… Read more »
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The plague is generally considered an affliction of the past, so it may come as a surprise that this is very much not the case and… Read more »
Meet the SDG3 researchers: Sandul Yasobant
Sandul Yasobant is a global health researcher and system thinker with a research affiliation at the Indian Institute of Public… Read more »
Addiction Should Be Treated, not Penalized: An interview with Nora D. Volkow
As part of the SDG3 good health and wellbeing initiative at Springer Nature, we talk to Nora Volkow, the Director of the National… Read more »
Meet the SDG3 researchers: Mora Claramita
Mora Claramita is a Professor in Medical and Health Professions Education at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, and a general… Read more »
Empowering decision-makers: The decision-maker-led approach to Implementation Research for strengthening immunization programs and services in LMICs
A new supplement published by Health Research Policy and Systems highlights studies undertaken in LMICs across Africa and Asia as… Read more »
Re-visioning male suicide through a social determinants lens
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