Biotech Unveiled
As part of my pre-work for the No Patient Left Behind program, I’ve obtained a new certification entitled Biotech Unveiled: Understanding the U.S. Biomedical Innovation Marketplace and its…
Tag: healthcare
Chicago Women in Digital Health
This Chicago event on women’s health was centered around two panels, one on transforming patient care with AI, and another on policy & advocacy for women’s health.
Why sex matters in research
This AAAS webinar explored the impacts of research gaps in studying sex, and the implications for care delivery and population health.
Policing Patients – review
In Policing Patients, Elizabeth Chiarello examines the role of prescription drug monitoring programmes (PDMPs) in the opioid crisis in the US, arguing that they transform healthcare into patient…
BCG Weighs in on Women’s Health
BCG joins many others in articulating that female consumer / patient needs aren’t being met. This is a market ripe for innovation, disruption, and even aggregation. And hopefully,…
National Academies Reports on Women’s Health
The National Academies have just released a series of reports about how the The National Institutes of Health (NIH) needs to evolve to better support women’s health: They…
Women’s Hospital
As I learn more about the opportunities and challenges in the field of women’s health, I find myself reflecting on things I would not have noticed in the…
The Toxic Free Food Act
We can strive to fix our healthcare system, but the influence of the food science industry in the U.S. is disastrous. If it remains unaddressed, will Americans ever…
Women’s PAC – Boston Event
I had the opportunity to participate in a Women’s Health PAC in Boston. We heard from some luminaries in the field, and I left feeling inspired by what…
Sixty may be the New Fifty but is Twenty Six the New Old?
Author: Sheba Mohammid In Trinidad and Tobago, we may not have Ponce De Leon’s fountain of youth, but we do have a pool. It’s technically an offshore sandbar,…
An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Health & Care in the Smartphone Age
Author: Charlotte Hawkins As part of the ASSA project, we are currently working to publish a volume called: ‘An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Health & Care in the…
Infrastructures of inequality: Caring tweets, public health, and COVID-19 in Delhi by Emilija Zabiliūte
One tweet asks for help finding a hospital bed in Delhi, India’s capital. Another asks where to find oxygen. These tweets joined a sea of similar pleas for…
Training as a Solution
Participating in and delivering training sessions has helped me to address client problems and create future opportunities for my business. Now is an exciting time for anthropologists to…
Training as a Solution
Participating in and delivering training sessions has helped me to address client problems and create future opportunities for my business. Now is an exciting time for anthropologists to…
Training as a Solution
Participating in and delivering training sessions has helped me to address client problems and create future opportunities for my business. Now is an exciting time for anthropologists to…
Empty Beds and Mounting Deaths: COVID-19 and U.S. Healthcare’s Systemic Failures by Miao Jenny Hua
It was afternoon in early April and I was only two-thirds of the way through my 12-hour shift. Between checking on how one patient was breathing and whether…
COVID-19 and the extraordinary normality of the War on Drugs by Jennifer L. Syvertsen
As if it were not challenging enough during the “normal emergencies” [1] of the United States-led War on Drugs, research and advocacy for sane drug policies becomes even…
Health for all? Access to healthcare among precarious populations in Norway by Vilde Fastvold Thorbjørnsen
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Defining Wellbeing: Tensions in the World Bank’s approach to Universal Health Coverage by Marlee Tichenor
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
A ‘grand projet’: Universal Health Coverage and social protection in Senegal by Anna Wood
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Health Insurance for the poor: insights from the Kenyan coast by Jacinta Victoria Muinde
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Futures and the past in Ghana’s Universal Health Coverage infrastructure by David Bannister
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Globalization in the Widening Gyre of COVID-19
Part 2 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. The Routes of Panic It turns out that when people panic, they panic according to a template. Panic follows established…
The hype and hope of data for healthcare in Africa by Tom Neumark
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. …