My go at recalling ten important readings that changed my practice
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Few doctors realize that their work is often about human rights. A few years ago Flavia Bustreo, then Assistant Director-General of WHO, and Paul Hunt, the first UN Special Rapporteur…
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
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
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…
An analysis of minimum wages in the top 30 wealthy countries, trends in benefits for those not in work, how poor and rich income groups benefit when economies grow, the…
Robin Dunbar is an Oxford cultural anthropologist who classifies human groups. The ‘sympathy group’ is the smallest social group outside the family. Fifteen or so people who share a common interest,…
‘Bonding’ between a mother and her newborn infant was a concept first described by DW Winnicott, the paediatrician turned psychoanalyst. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marshal Klaus and John Kennell in…