Three Ways to Spot Bad Data
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 16 April, 2013
- 7 Comments
Warning Sign #1: When government officials use the data to set targets like an increase in vaccination or a decrease in cancer numbers, they always use percentages, not absolute numbers. That’s … more Blood & Milk…
Advice needed – charitable giving on TB
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 30 December, 2012
- 10 Comments
Last year, my husband and I decided to organize our charitable giving. Instead of making haphazard choices all along, we now give a set percentage of our income at the … more Blood & Milk…
Fraud, waste and abuse
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 12 April, 2012
- 1 Comment
Two senior employees of a private consulting firm have been accused of stealing money intended for global HIV work and … more Blood & Milk…
What’s Killing Us
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 22 March, 2012
- 18 Comments
People ask me – a lot – how to start learning about global health. I never have a good answer. Usually I send them to Karen Grepin’s blog and … more Blood & Milk…
Book Review: Damned Nations, by Samantha Nutt
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 7 February, 2012
- 20 Comments
I didn’t mean to read this book. I am in the middle of another book I’m reading for review – Ed Carr’s Delivering Development (which I am really enjoying, but … more Blood & Milk…
More Pie: Some Thinking on World AIDS Day
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 2 December, 2010
- 4 Comments
(Two delicious pies baked into a cake. We should think big.) The most common complaint about World AIDS Day goes like this – HIV already gets the lion’s share of … more Blood & Milk…
