Six things I know about medical training

1.       When you train a doctor, it doesn’t trickle down. It stops, right there, with her. That’s why you need to train nurses and the rest of the clinical team. 2.       If you teach new skills from a book and don’t include hands-on practice, it won’t stick. People will go right back to the old… Read More »

Fraud, waste and abuse

                    Two senior employees of a private consulting firm have been accused of stealing money intended for global HIV work and using it for their personal expenses. The Washington Post report is low on details, but as far as I can tell, they had some kind… Read More »

What’s Killing Us

  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 suggest they take a look at the various textbooks on Amazon. It’s not a satisfactory answer. Karen Grepin is fantastic, but a blog’s a very… Read More »

Book Review: Damned Nations, by Samantha Nutt

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 it’s new enough to me that I am also carefully taking my time). But I picked Damned Nations off my to-read pile the other day… Read More »

More Pie: Some Thinking on World AIDS Day

(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 global health funding and attention. Why don’t we pay attention to diarrhea/pneumonia/NTDs/indoor air pollution for a change? Ten years ago, I would have agreed with… Read More »

UN Week Notes: Wednesday

I spent the morning at CGI and meeting with several different people to talk about the MDG summit and what they expected to come out of it. No one wanted to go on the record, but the general consensus is that the meetings seem like a repeat. There is very little that’s new coming out… Read More »

UN Week Notes: Tuesday

I’ll be doing one of these entries each day, with a few notes on the most interesting things I attended and any thoughts I had to share. I’ll have some more reflective and detailed posts coming, but I wanted to share the basics of this experience as fast as possible. So, Tuesday. In the morning,… Read More »