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Global Trade: for healthy populations or healthy profits?
If we go back to the basics of epidemiology, it is abundantly clear that patterns of disease are converging globally, with NCDs emerging as the major threat to population health worldwide. Other...
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Politics and Global Health – Are we missing the obvious?
This week, a group of prominent health academics and leaders will meet in London to launch a renewed effort to narrow the evidence and implementation gap in the fight against humanity’s largest cause...
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Regulation – big brother, or just good governance?
Dr Fiona Lander is a medical doctor and law graduate based in Melbourne, Australia. In this, her first post for TGH, she explores the concepts around effective public health regulation, including the...
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Health policy: nanny state or catalyst for change?
This week on TGH – regular blogger and NCDFREE change-maker Jo Jewell of the World Cancer Research Fund talks about health policy and its role in Global Health. It has become abundantly clear over the...
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Festive fiscal measures
Dr Luke Allen is a physician and global health policy researcher at the British Heart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention. As the world prepares for a...
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The Enduring Need for Cancer Treatment
Danielle Rodin is a Radiation Oncology Resident at the University of Toronto and co-founded the group GlobalRT, which is a group of young professionals dedicated to improving the availability and...
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Public Health or Politics: The Recent History of America’s Gun Epidemic and...
James Michiel is an American public health technologist and writer. He holds an MPH in Epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health, is currently a Senior mHealth Analyst at Emory...
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Three wins this week, for tackling obesity
When it comes to obesity in Australia, the statistics are alarming – and generally getting worse. The national prevalence of obesity has increased significantly over the past few decades. Roughly three...
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The tasty truth on trans fats
This week on PLOS TGH – chewing the fat on all things trans fats, with Dr Luke Allen of the University of Oxford. The European Parliament has adopted a resolution that seeks to ban the use of trans...
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The secret, hidden pricetag on your cola bottle
0000-0002-1767-4576The line at the convenience store is three people deep. Standing in front of me is a 40-something man with a bottle of cola and a newspaper. In front of him, a mother paying her...
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