Introduction An adequate health workforce is one of the cornerstones of a healthy nation. Over the last two decades, Africa has gained momentum in mitigating critical health workforce gaps, but urgent ...

Background Peer support is an important supplement to medical resources for persons living with HIV (PLHIV). However, previous studies have shown mixed results about intervention effects. It is ...

One of the many things that the global health community is in agreement about is that we really do not know how to define global health – and this is not for want of attempts.1, 2 My favourite ...

Background There is recognition of the importance of community resilience in mitigating long-term effects of health emergencies on communities. To guide policy and practice, conceptual clarity is ...

Background Research integrity and research fairness have gained considerable momentum in the past decade and have direct implications for global health epidemiology. Research integrity and research ...

Background Extreme heat exposure is a growing public health concern. In this trial, we tested the impact of a community health worker (CHW) led heat education programme on all-cause mortality, ...

Background We have previously shown that an integrated intervention package delivered during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood substantially reduces low birth weight and stunting at 24 ...

International humanitarian law stipulates specific obligations during armed conflict, including the protection of healthcare and humanitarian workers. There has been a recent increase in attacks on ...

Critical voices on unfairly high mpox and other vaccine prices open the debate on the ‘right price’ to be paid to private vaccine suppliers. We apply compound real options analysis as a more ...

Background Obesity is a growing public health challenge worldwide with significant health and economic impacts. However, much of what is known about the economic impacts of obesity comes from ...

Eggers C, Martel L, Dismer A, et al. Implementing a DHIS2 Ebola virus disease module during the 2021 Guinea Ebola outbreak. BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e009240. doi:10. ...

Clinical research conducted to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) standards is increasingly being undertaken in resource-constrained low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) settings. This presents ...