Global health is undergoing an existential crisis. 5 years ago, we invited readers to tell us what was wrong with it, and the result was a rich catalogue of thought pieces on “The future of global health research, publishing, and practice”. Those in the field acknowledged its colonial roots and the power imbalances that remain, […]
Equity has been a central principle to global health since the field emerged approximately 25–30 years ago. More recently, attention has turned inwards, towards disparities and questions of inequities within global health as a discipline. Unequal access to funding, visa and language barriers, authorship practices, and the concentration of resources and influence shape who participates […]
Nelson Evaborhene and colleagues call for regionally led accountability for pandemic preparedness and highlight gaps between financial pledges and disbursement.1 I suggest that existing country-led health-sector reviews also identify financing obstacles and seek public, time-bound responses from institutions with authority to act, including funders and intermediaries whose decisions lie beyond recipient countries’ control.
We read with great interest the modelling analysis by Valerie M Friesen and colleagues, published in the Lancet Global Health, that provides a comprehensive global assessment of large-scale food fortification and its cost-effectiveness across diverse settings.1 The integration of dietary intake distributions with fortification programme parameters is an important step towards quantifying population-level nutritional gains.
Sasikala Jummala, Mohana Kumari C, Soumya Tripathi, Deepti M Sati