David Sanders, an internationally renowned paediatrician and public health researcher, has spent fifty years involved in struggles for health in Zimbabwe, the UK and South Africa. He has always been passionate about participatory socialist democracy as a way to improve health and reduce inequality. In this wide-ranging one hour interview he offers analysis of the causes of the causes of inequality and poor health, and guidance to young social and health activists about how to tackle contemporary challenges for health, the environment, gender and inequality.
We face a double burden of malnutrition. Almost one billion people go to bed hungry. And obesity rates rise remorselessly. In many parts of the world our children are fatter, less active and less likely to be exclusively breastfed than they have ever been.
In these two conversations with leading nutritionist Gay Palmer and international human rights lawyer Belinda Reeve, I explore the politics of feeding children, and whether food companies are infringing the rights of children through aggressive marketing of infant formula, junk food and sugar in everything. They suggest ways that states and professionals might regulate the culture and commerce of your children’s diet.
https://medium.com/@am_costello/seven-ways-the-world-bank-and-global-fund-can-help-universal-health-coverage-without-the-cobra-of-12c7d52af292 View at Medium.com
My conversation with Patralekha Chatterjee, international journalist and author, about politics, health, diet, the environment, caste, cultural diversity and the status of women in India.
Also a round-up of news from the World Health Assembly, about the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and on the Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, India.
A Social Vaccine for Ebola. A Lesson for the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ebola virion “building and holding public trust by the government and health personnel is the foundation for all control efforts.” When, in the early 1980s, a wasting disease appeared in…
https://medium.com/@am_costello/want-to-change-your-work-life-balance-learn-from-a-contemplative-life-ba4fd3f09537
See my new blog things we did right to help teams perform. https://medium.com/@am_costello/your-seven-point-checklist-for-successful-teamwork-89409e796613 View at Medium.com
Conversations with WHO Director of Ageing John Beard and Scarlet McNally, orthopaedic surgeon, on healthy ageing, integrated care for older people, and how to keep people active and engaged.
Yale women graduate students discuss their attitudes to climate change, emerging student activism, nationalism, feminism, gun control, drug use, the feckless baby boomer generation, and reasons to be optimistic or depressed about the world.
Peter Sands, CEO, the Global Fund. This week’s blog is about my concerns with the Global Fund’s ‘deal’ with Lombard Odier, a Swiss private bank. Today my letter to the…