By Claudia Rowe, special correspondent Despite living in a country with one of the best health-care systems in the world,…
The UW’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has taken a cue from the master of visual information Hans Rosling…
Flickr, by Dierk Schaefer Seattle recently hosted a big international meeting in which many of the world’s leaders in the…
Crunching numbers, fighting diseaseInstitute for Health Metrics Evaluation Many, if not most, of the top people in global health were…
The editor of the British medical journal The Lancet, Richard Horton, gave the closing speech at the Global Health Metrics…
Hoo-boy, where do I begin trying to write about a bunch of people who mostly talk numbers and statistics? How…
One big malaria success story is a program in Zambia run by Seattle-based PATH. It has involved a rapid expansion…
Despite the economic downturn, funding for development assistance targeting health issues internationally has continued to grow — though more slowly…
I wrote last week about the World Health Organization revising down its numbers on maternal mortality, noting that the UN…
It’s perhaps no surprise to find that better-educated mothers do better at improving the health of their children, but it…