When People Come First
By João Biehl & Adriana Petryna
The Global health community is an evolving and expanding field. Below, João Biehl and Adriana Petryna consider the importance...
Putting the Patient in Charge: the future of healthcare
By Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, founder and CEO, Patients Know Best
Giving patients control of their own medical records and putting them at the centre of their...
Rebuilding Retirement System Resiliency in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
By Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell & Mark Warshawsky
The global financial meltdown has had important repercussions for capital market returns, labor market earnings, household...
Food – Wars and Pharma – Trailblazing the Way to Human Demise
By Peter Koenig
In this article, Peter Koenig connects the dots and sheds light on how food, drugs, and bombs all play together in the...
Is Inequality a Clear Infringement of the Human Right to Health?
By Claudio Schuftan
Inequality in health is a morally significant fact in itself. Yet the current status of health inequality trends among and within countries...
The Trump-Ryan Healthcare Act: Some Economic Consequences
By Jack Rasmus
While Republicans on the Right and the Far Right wrangle over whether to repeal the Obamacare Affordable Care Act (ACA), or just...
An Open Letter to Researchers Studying the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
I am not a medical doctor, nor specialist in epidemiology, but I consider myself very experienced and conversant with methodologies of scientific research. While...
5 Must-Watch Trends Set to Shape the 2021 Healthcare Sector
The effects of the coronavirus pandemic were rattling—especially for the healthcare sector. As people worldwide struggled to navigate ever-changing regulations and devastating losses, those...
Increased Digitalisation of Services Trade in Today’s Global Economic Paralysis
By Sarita D. Jackson, President and CEO of the Global Research Institute of International Trade
During the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an increased role...
Healthcare Trends in 2021: Innovation through eHealth Startups
The COVID-19 pandemic did more than just highlight certain vulnerabilities and shortcomings within the existing healthcare model, it also presented opportunities for healthcare startups...
