By KATE HAWKINS, FHS member This year’s Prince Mahidol Award Conference in Bangkok, January 28-30 2009, was on mainstreaming health into public policies. STEPS Centre affiliate, Future Health Systems, was…
HEALTH MARKETS DISCUSSION AT THE PRINCE MAHIDOL AWARD CONFERENCE IN BANGKOK
EVENT: CHINA AND GLOBAL HEALTH MARKETS – CO-OPERATION OR COMPETITION?
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member As we enter the ‘industrious and practical’ Chinese Year of the Ox, the country is emerging as a significant player in global health markets….
ANOTHER SIDE TO CHINA’S OLYMPIC DREAM
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member The eyes of the world are focussed firmly on China as the Olympic Games get into full swing. A television audience of a…
CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
by GERRY BLOOM & HILARY STANDING, STEPS Centre members It is thirty years since the Alma Ata Declaration outlined an international consensus on the need to provide universal access to…
BEIJING: GLOBAL FORUM FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member The world is likely to fail to meet the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals related to health, the head of the World Health Organization…
DSA DAY 1: STEPS PANEL SESSION 1 – PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY
STEPS PANEL SESSION 1 – PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILTY: LINKING TECHNOLOGY, POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Melissa Leach, director of the STEPS Centre, opens the first STEPS panel session by saying…
CHINESE EXPORTS: DANGER, REGULATION AND SECURITY
By GERRY BLOOM, STEPS Centre member Over the past few months there have been a number of stories in the international media about dangerous exports from China. On the one…