COVID-19 | Intervention

Towards a Strategic Agenda for Cohort 6 of the Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Fellowship

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa Union, Africa’s CDC, COVID-19, Health leadership, Kofi Annan, Public healthNo CommentsViews:

By Chris Kwaja Introduction: Africa continues to face interconnected public health challenges driven by infectious disease outbreaks, weak health systems, climate change, demographic transit... Read more

Theodora Udounwa ,21 Year Old Nigerian Student, Breaks Record @ University of Toronto

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Abuja, Black Pharmacy Students Association, Canada, CAPSI, COVID-19, Toronto General HospitalNo CommentsViews:

Hers is a singularity that can be celebrated because the context of her exceptionalism leaves little room for any reservations. The University of Toronto is, like most of the top 50 front ra... Read more

Disease X and Africa: The Creation of Disease Narratives

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Bushmeat, CHINA, COVID-19, Disease X, Ebola, RCCE, WHONo CommentsViews:

By Catherine Grant, (Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK) & Kelley Sams (Assistant Professor, University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine)... Read more

Building Universal Social Protection Systems for All: What Role for Targeting?

Posted By: adminon: June 05, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: COVID-19, ILO, Targeting, USP2030No CommentsViews:

The piece below is considered a very comprehensive and well written review/critique of the recent World Bank’s report on targeting. The authors are Shahra Razavi, Christina Behrendt, Valeria... Read more

Political Parties, the Constitution and Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Cum National Interest

Posted By: adminon: May 29, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Chapter 2, COVID-19, Directive Principles of State Policy, Foreign policy, National interestNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki The preamble of the 1999 Constitution has outlined the aspirational principles of the Nigerian State and its core national interests. They include the attainment of... Read more

A Vice-Chancellor for Oxford and Cambridge Universities

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Brexit, CHINA, COVID-19, Harvard University, UK, University of British Columbia, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:

With both Oxford and Cambridge seeking new vice-chancellors, Rosa Ellis examines the unique pressures of leading these prestigious universities and the qualities that successful candidates w... Read more

Cuba Does It Again, Beats US, Other Wealthy Nations To It

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, COVID-19, Cuba, Intellectual property rights, US, WHONo CommentsViews:

Cuba has done it again. It has vaccinated 90% of the population according to a widely circulating story, (TheHill, for example). Cuba created multiple Covid-19 vaccines in addition to aggres... Read more

But for the EU, Africa Would Have Stabbed Her Own for WHO Job?

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: African agency, CHINA, COVID-19, EU, US, WHONo CommentsViews:

But for the European Union, (EU), Ethiopia’s Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus would not have been renominated for another term as Director-General of the World Health Organisation, (WHO). Reut... Read more

Why mRNA COVID Vaccines Can’t Change Your DNA

Posted By: adminon: August 25, 2021In: GovernanceTags: CDC, COVID-19, DNA, mRNA, WHONo CommentsViews:

This is a Newsweek version of the claim that won’t go away and warrants republication as follows: By Jason Murdock The type of vaccines used against COVID-19 do not interact with or... Read more

The Hurting Mental Health Impacts of Covid-19 Induced Online Learning on Students

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Canadian universities, COVID-19, Mental health, Online learning, Wellbeing @ OxfordNo CommentsViews:

Six academics, namely Emmanuel Ojo; Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa; Annie Burger, PhD student, Bryan Jason Bergsteedt, Lecturer (Clinical Anatomy), Samantha... Read more