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Students for Global Health UCL
- Oct 6, 2016
- 3 min
Refugees and Health: Part 1
By: Tharanika Ahillan
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Mar 18, 2016
- 2 min
A Spoonful of Sugar Tax
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...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Mar 3, 2016
- 2 min
Global Health Trials: "Randomised Control Crimes"?
Research ethics in global health is an area of constant scrutiny. Whilst studies often rely on the worlds poorest countries to tackle tou...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Feb 24, 2016
- 2 min
Pasung: Is chaining the answer?
"All persons with a mental illness... shall be treated with humanity and respect for the inherent dignity of the human person.” UN Resolu...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Feb 4, 2016
- 2 min
Gender and Health
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...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Jan 27, 2016
- 2 min
Indonesia and Influenza: The Fight for a Vaccine
In 2003, the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN) identified a novel strain of the influenza virus among poultry in Indonesia...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Jan 13, 2016
- 2 min
Global Mental Health
Living in a world where a disease has to be quantifiable to be considered an ‘illness’, we continually neglect the importance of mental h...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Dec 17, 2015
- 2 min
The Paris Agreement
Current commitments on greenhouse gas emissions run out in 2020. So what next? Well just last week, governments of more than 190 nations ...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Dec 10, 2015
- 2 min
The UK: Our Sugar Problem
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...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Dec 3, 2015
- 2 min
Anti-Retrovirals: Is Access Universal?
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...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Nov 26, 2015
- 1 min
World AIDS Day 2015: The Time to Act is Now!
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...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Nov 26, 2015
- 2 min
Food for Thought: Is Quinoa really just a Bonafide Superfood?
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...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Nov 5, 2015
- 2 min
Sex Workers: Do they have rights?
March 3rd: International Sex Workers Rights Day.Since 2001, this day has been important in the diary of sex workers across the world. It ...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Oct 29, 2015
- 2 min
Why are we ending bilateral aid to India?
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...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Oct 22, 2015
- 2 min
Big Pharma: Friend or Foe?
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...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Oct 15, 2015
- 2 min
Global Health Governance: A 'Who's Who" of Global Health (Part 2)
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...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Oct 1, 2015
- 2 min
What is Global Health?
‘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...
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Students for Global Health UCL
- Sep 25, 2015
- 2 min
An Introduction into Who We Are and What We Do
“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...
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