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For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Ichiro Kawachi, a physician and epidemiologist at Harvard University about how growing wealth inequality is making us sicker.
World Health OrganizationWHO The World Health Organization made great progress in the global campaign to reduce maternal mortality today. The…
One of the biggest problems with vaccines is that they usually need refrigeration. PATH has long worked on this problem,…
Here the inimitable Hans Rosling of Gapminder shows how Turkey’s quality of life is now on par with France: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4GztlkyedQ&feature=player_embedded
Okay, this could be a little awkward. But it’s not the first time we’ve seen this kind of arrangement; nor…
Nets distribution in NigerVoice of America One of the problems with saving lives is it’s hard to identify a death…
Renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall has lived and worked in central Africa for half a century. Goodall long ago…
Mobile phoneFlickr, by 96dpi There’s a lot of excitement and activity around the idea of using mobile phones to improve…
The Seattle Times’ science reporter Sandi Doughton today provides an excellent, detailed description of the Gates Foundation’s strategy for fighting…
I missed this the other day. Thought it was funny enough to point out, even if I’m a bit late.…
Albert Einstein said the key to solving a problem is in how you define the problem. If critical problems in…
Clay Holtzman of the Puget Sound Business Journal offers further thoughts on the Gates Foundation’s annual report, beginning with the…
One of the funny, maddening things about global health is all the terminology people use that seems to lack precise…