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By: Tharanika Ahillan

By: Tharanika Ahillan

Just a few days ago, the UK chancellor George Osborne announced his plan of attack in the fight against childhood obesity : a new sugar t...

Research ethics in global health is an area of constant scrutiny. Whilst studies often rely on the worlds poorest countries to tackle tou...

"All persons with a mental illness... shall be treated with humanity and respect for the inherent dignity of the human person.” UN Resolu...

When we talk about health, we rarely speak about it in terms of gender. But why? When women are 2-3 times more likely to report depressio...

In 2003, the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN) identified a novel strain of the influenza virus among poultry in Indonesia...

Living in a world where a disease has to be quantifiable to be considered an ‘illness’, we continually neglect the importance of mental h...

Current commitments on greenhouse gas emissions run out in 2020. So what next? Well just last week, governments of more than 190 nations ...

2015 has seen the war against sugar come to the forefront of the public health agenda in the UK. From the Change for Life ‘sugar swap’ ca...

As we come to the end of Positively Red Week, we must remember that the fight against HIV/AIDs is not yet over. One of the biggest issues...

Since being first identified in 1984, HIV/AIDs has claimed the lives of over 35 million people. Yet the pandemic is far from over. Curren...

Until a few years ago, I can bet most of you hadn't even heard of quinoa. Whilst this once secret grain has been grown and consumed in th...

March 3rd: International Sex Workers Rights Day.Since 2001, this day has been important in the diary of sex workers across the world. It ...

​India was once the biggest recipient of British foreign aid. But by the end of this year, the UK will be ending its provision of bilater...

In terms of global health actors, ‘big pharma’ is one of the big names on the block. It’s the nickname given to the pharmaceutical indust...

Welcome back to this two-part series on ‘whos who’ in global health! With an ever increasing plurality of actors on the global health sce...

The UN In our world of ever changing health risks and increasing globalisation, there has never been a more pressing need for health poli...

‘Global Health’ is one of those terms, like culture or ethnicity that no-one really knows how to define.I’m sure to most people, the conc...

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has” M...