Nabila Mella Garip
@nabilamella.bsky.social
Global health policy & equity | Research impact
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Women in Global Health Spain🩵
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In the Dominican Republic, Canadian mining company Barrick Gold is pushing people out of their land, contaminating their water sources, and deepening the island nation’s vulnerability to climate change — all with the complicity of the government. Read about it here.
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Barrick Gold and how neoliberalism and neocolonial practices shape global health
We've heard about blood diamonds. We've heard about cobalt. But have you heard about gold?
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March 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In the Dominican Republic, Canadian mining company Barrick Gold is pushing people out of their land, contaminating their water sources, and deepening the island nation’s vulnerability to climate change — all with the complicity of the government. Read about it here.
open.substack.com/pub/nabilame...
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February 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Children in Gaza are dying from hypothermia. Israel is responsible for incalculable death and destruction.
February 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Children in Gaza are dying from hypothermia. Israel is responsible for incalculable death and destruction.
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The hypocrisy of so many academic organizations and universities that have remained silent when academic freedom and the right to assemble was violently repressed in the past two years yet they’re suddenly concerned about academic freedom because Trump is taking away funding.
February 20, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The hypocrisy of so many academic organizations and universities that have remained silent when academic freedom and the right to assemble was violently repressed in the past two years yet they’re suddenly concerned about academic freedom because Trump is taking away funding.
I have long been pondering what it means to work in global health, especially now that one of its biggest funders is no longer providing the resources it used to.
Read my thoughts here! :)
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Read my thoughts here! :)
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Thoughts on a post-USAID global health
This is coming from a person who earns her salary from global health: We should rethink the whole thing. Let's put ourselves out of business.
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February 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I have long been pondering what it means to work in global health, especially now that one of its biggest funders is no longer providing the resources it used to.
Read my thoughts here! :)
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Read my thoughts here! :)
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Interesting thoughts on the EU's hipocrisy in terms of Ukraine and Palestine🧐
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The EU’s double standards on Palestine and Ukraine
Alvaro Oleart and Juan Roch argue the EU’s “othering” of Palestine demonstrates clear double standards when compared to Europe’s treatment of Ukraine. Ursula von der Leyen promised a “geopolitical”…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Interesting thoughts on the EU's hipocrisy in terms of Ukraine and Palestine🧐
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
This is SO CUTE
December 12, 2024 at 10:36 PM
This is SO CUTE
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Besides ruining our health, our enormous and growing preference for ultra-processed foods in place of whole foods is ruining the health of the planet. At the recent attempt to do something about it in Busan, the over 200 oil industry delegates prevented any declaration limiting plastics.
December 2, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Besides ruining our health, our enormous and growing preference for ultra-processed foods in place of whole foods is ruining the health of the planet. At the recent attempt to do something about it in Busan, the over 200 oil industry delegates prevented any declaration limiting plastics.
Read some of my thoughts on the lack of opportunities for women in health leadership here!
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La España vaciada de jefas en la medicina: ¿por qué son más en la carrera pero no llegan a los puestos de decisión?
A pesar de ser mayoría, las sanitarias están supeditadas a los puestos con menor prestigio y tienen gran dificultad para asumir roles de liderazgo.
Más información: La OMS ficha a Mónica García como r...
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November 29, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Read some of my thoughts on the lack of opportunities for women in health leadership here!
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#HPV vaccine stops 90% of #CervicalCancer cases, figures for England show, by @michroberts www.bbc.com/news/article... via @bbchealth.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social
HPV vaccine stops 90% of cervical cancer cases - BBC News
England began vaccinating teenage girls in 2008 and results show it is paying off.
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November 27, 2024 at 5:36 PM
#HPV vaccine stops 90% of #CervicalCancer cases, figures for England show, by @michroberts www.bbc.com/news/article... via @bbchealth.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social
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What is Public Health? What has it ever done for us?
Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities, and individuals.
Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities, and individuals.
November 26, 2024 at 9:01 PM
What is Public Health? What has it ever done for us?
Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities, and individuals.
Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities, and individuals.
I just watched “Buy Now” on Netflix (sigh)…
My article didn’t even scratch the SURFACE of what capitalism, corporations, and unchecked consumerism is doing to our planet.
GO WATCH IT!!
My article didn’t even scratch the SURFACE of what capitalism, corporations, and unchecked consumerism is doing to our planet.
GO WATCH IT!!
🛍️ Let’s be mindful of what we consume (or don’t consume) this holiday season. The planet depends on it.
New article out now! Read it here:
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New article out now! Read it here:
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What to buy this holiday season
NOTHING. Yes, you read that right. Here's why: the genocide-ecocide-colonialism-capitalism nexus.
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November 26, 2024 at 9:11 PM
I just watched “Buy Now” on Netflix (sigh)…
My article didn’t even scratch the SURFACE of what capitalism, corporations, and unchecked consumerism is doing to our planet.
GO WATCH IT!!
My article didn’t even scratch the SURFACE of what capitalism, corporations, and unchecked consumerism is doing to our planet.
GO WATCH IT!!
Today, I think especially about the women in Palestine. In Sudan. In Congo. In Yemen. In Haiti.
All our struggles & oppressions are related.
All our struggles & oppressions are related.
November 25, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Today, I think especially about the women in Palestine. In Sudan. In Congo. In Yemen. In Haiti.
All our struggles & oppressions are related.
All our struggles & oppressions are related.
🛍️ Let’s be mindful of what we consume (or don’t consume) this holiday season. The planet depends on it.
New article out now! Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/nabilame...
New article out now! Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/nabilame...
What to buy this holiday season
NOTHING. Yes, you read that right. Here's why: the genocide-ecocide-colonialism-capitalism nexus.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 9:01 AM
🛍️ Let’s be mindful of what we consume (or don’t consume) this holiday season. The planet depends on it.
New article out now! Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/nabilame...
New article out now! Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/nabilame...
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Canadian health & sci community must band and develop a damage control plan
A short list of what might come here from south of our border:
- anti-vaccine
- anti-fluoride
- anti-trans & LGBTQ+
- anti-abortion rights
- climate change denial
- promotion of raw milk, ivermectin, untested therapies
A short list of what might come here from south of our border:
- anti-vaccine
- anti-fluoride
- anti-trans & LGBTQ+
- anti-abortion rights
- climate change denial
- promotion of raw milk, ivermectin, untested therapies
November 23, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Canadian health & sci community must band and develop a damage control plan
A short list of what might come here from south of our border:
- anti-vaccine
- anti-fluoride
- anti-trans & LGBTQ+
- anti-abortion rights
- climate change denial
- promotion of raw milk, ivermectin, untested therapies
A short list of what might come here from south of our border:
- anti-vaccine
- anti-fluoride
- anti-trans & LGBTQ+
- anti-abortion rights
- climate change denial
- promotion of raw milk, ivermectin, untested therapies
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The International Criminal Court issued warrants finding the two “bear criminal responsibility as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; & the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, & other inhumane acts.”
Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...
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November 21, 2024 at 12:25 PM
The International Criminal Court issued warrants finding the two “bear criminal responsibility as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; & the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, & other inhumane acts.”
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Global health can never be global because the global north is truly a “walled world” locking out everyone else
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
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Passport And Visa Privileges In Global Health
The field of global health is extraordinarily unequal, with privileged people and institutions in the global North dominating all aspects of global health. One form of privilege, the passports and vis...
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November 21, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Global health can never be global because the global north is truly a “walled world” locking out everyone else
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
🦟🌍 “Climate change is having a massive global impact on dengue transmission, accounting for 19% of the current dengue burden, with a potential to spark an additional 40–60% spike by 2050—and by as much as 150–200% in some areas”.
medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...
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medicalxpress.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:34 PM
🦟🌍 “Climate change is having a massive global impact on dengue transmission, accounting for 19% of the current dengue burden, with a potential to spark an additional 40–60% spike by 2050—and by as much as 150–200% in some areas”.
medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...
medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...
Apúntate esto para el 26 de noviembre: un evento muy original sobre desarrollo sostenible🤩🤩
🗣️ Tras conversaciones entre todos los sectores sobre cómo (re)construir una historia rigurosa, clara y positiva sobre los ODS, la iniciativa Narrativas para la Agenda 2030 celebra su última sesión.
🗣️ Tras conversaciones entre todos los sectores sobre cómo (re)construir una historia rigurosa, clara y positiva sobre los ODS, la iniciativa Narrativas para la Agenda 2030 celebra su última sesión.
November 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Apúntate esto para el 26 de noviembre: un evento muy original sobre desarrollo sostenible🤩🤩
🗣️ Tras conversaciones entre todos los sectores sobre cómo (re)construir una historia rigurosa, clara y positiva sobre los ODS, la iniciativa Narrativas para la Agenda 2030 celebra su última sesión.
🗣️ Tras conversaciones entre todos los sectores sobre cómo (re)construir una historia rigurosa, clara y positiva sobre los ODS, la iniciativa Narrativas para la Agenda 2030 celebra su última sesión.
