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Looking beyond the pecs: Obama and global health

January 12, 2009 – 2:35 pm

Now that we’ve finished salivating over the presidential pecs,it’s time to turn to more cerebral issues, like what might Barack Obama’s election mean for global health?
Two European public health experts – Bernd Rechel and Martin McKee from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – ponder this question in an editorial in the British [...]

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Will we act on global poverty, climate change and the rest?

November 25, 2008 – 11:25 am

Professor Stephen Leeder, director of The Australian Health Policy Institute, responds to a recent Crikey article by Fran Baum and colleagues calling for international action on global poverty:
“It was said of the Australian cricket team during several of the ill-fated Ashes series in the 1980s that repeatedly it ‘seized defeat from the jaws of victory’. [...]

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