GHM research-based Emerging Issue Briefs focus on important Global Health topics that are new and emerging or old and forgotten.
GHM Controversial Issue Briefs, highlighted in red, discuss and encourage debate on controversial issues in Global Health.
The briefs were prepared in 2012-2014, as part of a larger research communication project.
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PARIS AND BEYOND
GHM Controversial Issue Brief by Diederike Geelhoed and Kirsten Havemann: "A Critical Look at Development Support to the Health Sector in Mozambique". -
UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Diederike Geelhoed: UHC has the potential to contribute to health and wellbeing. -
INFERTILITY
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Siri Tellier and Josephine Obel: "A human rights approach is essensial." -
MENSTRUAL HYGIENE
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Thilde Rheinländer and Mary Wachira: "An ancient - but ignored Global Health problem of all women." -
A NEW POTENTIAL FOR FIGHTING INEQUALITY
GHM Controversial Issue Brief by Knud Vilby: "A new potential for fighting inequality in global health research and health assistance?" -
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Dinesh Neupane and Per Kallestrup: "An emerging global health problem". -
THE HEALTH WORKER CRISIS
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Michael Schriver and Per Kallestrup: "The foundation of any health system is the providers working in it". -
IMPROVING HEALTH SYSTEMS
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Jeffrey V. Lazarus: "Efforts to deliver better health outcomes are everybody’s business". -
WAR & DISASTER: The Psychological Impact of Trauma
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Sarah Dokkedahl and Ask Elklit: "Millions of people are affected". -
MEDICINES AND MOBILE PHONES
GHM Controversial Issue Brief by Phil Clarke: "Can private industry meet the needs of the poorest continent?" -
THE TREATMENT GAP FOR MENTAL DISORDERS IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Ole Bæk and Carina Winkler Sørensen -
HEALTH SYSTEMS IN FRAGILE STATES PART 1
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Nigel Pearson: "Fragile states often have fragile health systems." -
HEALTH SYSTEMS IN FRAGILE STATES PART 2
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Nigel Pearson: "When looking at solutions, there is no ‘one size fits all’ course of action." -
UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS AS AN EMERGING PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Apostolos Vardangalos & Erling Høg: "Undocumented migrants in Greece are facing inhuman living conditions". -
Anti-Homosexual Legislation
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Steven L. B. Jensen: 'Recent anti-homosexual laws are threatening the health, means of existence and the life of the marginalized LGBT" -
Ageing
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Siri Tellier: 'Populations are ageing, leading to fears about an ‘elder burden’. -
Education for Health
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Knud Vilby: 'Basic and secondary education may be the best tool for improving poor people’s health. But international aid for education is declining.' -
HIV, TB and Malaria Drug Resistance
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Erling Høg: 'Drug resistance is a challenge for effective disease control.' -
Pesticides
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Erik Jørs: 'Pesticides are responsible for millions of human poisonings and hundreds of thousands deaths each year'. -
Ebola Virus Disease
GHM Emerging Issue Brief by Thea Fischer: 'West Africa is currently suffering from one of the largest outbreaks of ebola virus disease in history.'
