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Non-Communicable Disease: Prevention and Management Dilemma
In late April, I attended and presented at the Ghana Physicians and Surgeons Foundation 16th Annual Conference in Los Angeles, USA (http://www.ghanaphysicians.org/2018-gpsf-conference-at-la/) whose theme this year was ‘Non-Communicable Disease: Prevention and...
Integrating Critical Social Science and Global Health Policy
In June 2017, I participated in a workshop on Cancer in the South hosted by Dr. Carlo Caduff at King’s College London. Historians and anthropologists gathered around a table in Somerset House and shared works in progress on cancer case studies from across the Global...
Cancer’s visible and invisible histories
The New York Times featured a piece on cancer in eastern Africa this past weekend. In the article "As Cancer Tears Through Africa, Drug Makers Draw Up a Battle Plan" reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. and photographer Charlie Shoemaker report that pharmaceutical companies...
What’s in a biscuit?
The reasons for the increase in the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan African countries are complex, as much recent research has shown. So-called ‘lifestyle’ factors (including dietary change) may play a less central part than was previously thought. But...
Reframing NCDs and injuries
The Lancet Noncommunicable Disease and Injury Poverty Commission (NCDI Poverty Commission: www.ncdipoverty.org) was set up in late 2015 and is due to report later this year. Set up to ‘reframe’ understandings of NCDs and injuries around the vulnerabilities of the...
Preventing Global Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic: Outcomes of an International Teaching Seminar on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention
I attended the 49thTeaching Seminar of the International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention (ISCEP), which was held in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, from 5th-15th June, 2017. This event was hosted by the Jeffery Cheah Foundation, Sunway Medical...