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Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 115 – 127 PDF Corey McAuliffe, Ross Upshur, Daniel W. Sellen, and Erica Di Ruggiero  Abstract There is a dearth of research that aims to understand graduate students’ lived experience of global health…

Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 19 – 32 PDF David G. Addiss and Joseph J. Amon Abstract Over the past few decades, investments in global health programs have contributed to massive advances in health for human populations. As with clinical…

Juliet S. Sorensen America’s opioid epidemic has devastated communities across the country, killing 70,000 people in 2017. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have been increasing since at least 1999. The epidemic spread in 2010 with…

Kristi Heather Kenyon, Lisa Forman, and Claire E. Brolan The social determinants of health and human rights describe where and how we live and thrive. They express our actual and optimal conditions of housing and nutrition; our social, cultural, and…

Marta Schaaf, Shruti Chhabra, Walter Flores, Francesa Feruglio, Jashodhara Dasgupta, and Ana Lorena Ruano Abstract Information and Communication Technology (ICT) may facilitate the collection and dissemination of citizen-generated data to enhance…

Emily J. Kirk and Robert Huish  Abstract In 2008, Cuba’s minister of public health signed Resolution 126, an act that assured complete coverage for Cubans seeking sexual reassignment surgeries (also known as gender confirmation surgeries), the…

Alice Cruz In the mid-nineteenth century, when public health was establishing itself as a scientific field, the great physician-scientist Rudolph Virchow wrote, “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a larger…

Hunter Keys, Manuel Gonzales, Madsen Beau De Rochars, Stephen Blount, and Gregory S. Noland Abstract Hispaniola, the Caribbean island that includes the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic (DR), accounts for 90% of lymphatic filariasis…

Emily Nagisa Keehn and Ariane Nevin Abstract South Africa experiences the world’s highest HIV burden and one of the highest burdens for tuberculosis (TB). People in prison are particularly vulnerable to these diseases. Globally, and internally in…

Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Marie Elske Gispen Abstract Syria is currently experiencing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, and access to medicines for emergency care, pain control, and palliative care remains shockingly…