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No magic wand needed: How Bangladesh and Mozambique tackle malnutrition

In the News: Last week, someone asked Bill Gates what he would do, right now, if he had a magic wand and could solve one global health problem. Gates’ response wasn’t polio or even malaria, two...

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Closing the gap: Women’s education rises faster than global average in...

Photo Credit: UN Flickr Educating women saves lives – and the world is getting better at doing both. These are among the many of promising results detailed in a new policy report from the Institute for...

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While binge drinking rises in Wisconsin, Marquette County defies state trends

Since 2013, SJN has partnered with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to share instances of exceptional progress and success in public health (known as “positive deviants”) using...

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To better understand success in health, look local

Photo Credit: Matthew Schneider, Child Health Week, Katete, July 2010. As improving the quality of health services and people’s access to them becomes more of a global priority (especially in the wake...

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On World TB Day, which countries are the success stories?

Since 2013, SJN has partnered with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to share instances of exceptional progress and success in public health (known as “positive deviants”) using...

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Roses are red, violets are blue, vaccines work – and measles deaths fell, too

With America’s measles outbreak still spreading to new corners of the country, the public’s response is also become increasingly charged. Families are demanding that schools and pediatricians bar...

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Health system ABC(E)s: Start with physical infrastructure

If you’re a health worker in Uganda, what do you need in order to provide the best possible care for your patients – people who could be suffering from anything from HIV to broken limbs? You need a...

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The #1 reason fewer people are dying, country-by-country

For the global health field, 2015 is a year with a lot riding on it. The deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) looms, and deliberations continue about the post-MDG world should...

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When a Health System Delivers: Highlights from Zambia

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is rightfully on everyone’s minds these days, especially as stories of tragedy, faltering efforts, and depleting supplies emerge from the countries affected by the...

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Kicking butts: Declines in lung cancer deaths follow Uruguay’s strong tobacco...

Photo Credit: Matilde Campodonico, Associated Press In the public health world, it’s always a struggle to show the impact of health interventions, programs, or policies. Changes in key health outcomes...

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How Can Solutions Journalism Surface an Alternative Discourse on Racial...

Photo: Joshua Trujillo The deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin have ignited a wider national conversation about issues of class, power, and race in the United States today. New...

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Tiny country, huge gains: how the Maldives is improving health for women and...

This fall saw big gains for women and girls around the globe: seventeen-year-old Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest laureate in history for her advocacy work on girls’...

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How Bangladesh reduced child pneumonia deaths by 80% in 20 years

What causes more deaths than HIV, malaria, and measles—combined? Bet you didn’t guess pneumonia. Despite the fact that in 2013, a child died from pneumonia every 35 seconds, minimal funding has gone to...

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Rwanda accelerates toward zero malaria

The rallying cry at this year’s meeting for the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH), which ended yesterday, was “Accelerating to Zero,” the Gates Foundation’s vision to...

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It takes a village (or several countries) to stop infectious disease

Amid the fierce debate and public outcry over American cities quarantining health workers returning from West Africa, at least one difficult question has also emerged: what are the other optimal...

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Making progress contagious: Lessons from the DRC on measles

Photo Credit: Flickr User hdptcar Infectious diseases, whether they’re ebola, SARS or the flu, are very good at a few things. Namely, they excel at passing bits of a virus or bacteria from a given...

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A winnable battle: preventing mother-to-child transmission of syphilis

Until recently, if someone asked me about syphilis, I might have talked about how it’s a sexually transmitted disease and can cause psychosis if it goes untreated. I could have mentioned that syphilis...

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Epilepsy successes show how we might spend that ice bucket money

A lot of people have strong feelings about this summer’s #IceBucketChallenge to raise funding for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Critiques aside, it has catalyzed a deluge (pun intended) of...

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Money can’t buy me love–but it might just help with NCDs in Argentina

When the Beatles first sang “Can’t Buy Me Love” in 1964, high-income countries weren’t yet distributing large amounts of financial assistance to address the world’s health problems. When the Fab Four...

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When a Health System Delivers: Highlights from Zambia

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is rightfully on everyone’s minds these days, especially as stories of tragedy, faltering efforts, and depleting supplies emerge from the countries affected by the...

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