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Luchuo Engelbert Bain
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Global public health, implementation science, and empirical bioethics. Convener of Global Health Otherwise, authentic - disruptive science thinker - communicator.
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Global health after USAID cuts
On July 1, 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was officially terminated by the second Trump administration. The move prompted widespread condemnation and panic, thoug...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Restoring Confidence in Public Health | NEJM
A confluence of interrelated factors has put past progress in public health at serious risk in the United States. How did we get here, and what can public health professionals do about it?
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December 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Postdoctoral Researcher Implementation Science / Global Health
Interested in the complexity of global health challenges and how to address them from a implementation science/health systems perspective? The UMC Utrecht offers a vacancy for an postdoctoral research...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
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November 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Will African nations lose their leverage in an ‘America first’ health plan?
Public health experts expressed concern that African governments are losing their collective bargaining power with the ‘America First’ approach to global health.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Will global health survive its decolonisation?
There are growing calls to decolonise global health. This process is only just beginning. But what would success look like? Will global health survive its decolonisation? This is a question that fills...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Reclaiming Africa’s Health Future: Kenya leads the shift from dependency to determination
As donor funding for health continues to shrink across Africa, Kenya is reimagining its path toward a more self-reliant future. The conversation is shifting
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November 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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How can middle-income countries successfully transition away from international health aid?
Pertinent to recent international health aid cuts, this Perspective discusses how middle-income countries can prepare and succeed in transitioning away from external aid, highlighting three factors im...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Beware the financialization of the global health industry
Beware of financialization when it is code for “money making money on health,” S.L. Erikson warns.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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WHO issues guidance to address drastic global health financing cuts
The World Health Organization (WHO) today released new guidance for countries on ways to counter the immediate and long-term effects of sudden and severe cuts to external funding, which are disrupting...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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For things to change, the right persons need to get the message: through the right channels, with the right tone, at the right time, and in terms they can easily understand. Ignoring the politics of evidence is the surest way to remain brilliant and irrelevant."

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November 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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The ethics of global health communication in the artificial intelligence era: avoiding poverty porn 2.0
Following widespread criticism, so-called poverty porn, which usually appears in the guise of photographs featuring people in extreme states of suffering,1,2 is now largely discouraged in contemporary...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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An updated definition of global health
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October 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Involvement of community health workers in antimicrobial stewardship interventions and programmes: a scoping review
Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a global health threat, especially in low-income and middle-income countries. Community health workers (CHWs) are key actors in infection management a...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Understanding the implementation of evidence-informed policies and practices from a policy perspective: a critical interpretive synthesis - Implementation Science
Background The fields of implementation science and knowledge translation have evolved somewhat independently from the field of policy implementation research, despite calls for better integration. As...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Task sharing and shifting: Can we move beyond effectiveness? - Health Systems Global (HSG)
Task-sharing and shifting – The darling of global public health Last three decades have seen a rise in research on and implementation of task sharing and shifting (TSS) initiatives in … Continued
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October 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Rethinking Evidence: From Rigor to Rigor with Equity - Luchuoengelbertbain
Rethinking Evidence: From Rigor to Rigor with Equity Luchuo Engelbert Bain, MD, PhD. The idea of evidence is often treated as fixed — objective, value-free, and universally valid. Yet, in global healt...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Mentorship—A critical metric for career development and advancing global health
Mentorship plays a critical role in promoting career development and generating impactful research and programs, yet it is typically considered an altruistic endeavor and a luxury. Mentorship programs...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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What motivates people with type 2 diabetes to maintain lifestyle changes and what challenges do they experience? A qualitative evidence synthesis
Background People with type 2 diabetes often find recommended lifestyle changes difficult to achieve and can find it particularly difficult to maintain these changes. It is therefore useful to explore...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Next Generation Scientist 2026
Duration and dates: 12-week program from 01 June to 31 August 2026; onsite Basel Campus, SwitzerlandApplication:Please make sure to add the following documents to your application, combined in one PDF...
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October 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Implementation and Evaluation Fellowship in Climate Change and Health
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October 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Impact of health system governance on healthcare quality in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review
Introduction Improving healthcare quality in low-/middle-income countries (LMICs) is a critical step in the pathway to Universal Health Coverage and health-related sustainable development goals. This ...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Strengthening community protection: a call for localised preparedness, response, and resilience for public health emergencies
The ongoing conflicts in the occupied Palestinian territories, Ukraine, and Sudan underscore a crucial dilemma: what happens when public health systems are severely disrupted by conflict or insecurity...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Why global health research must stop treating communities as data sources and start honoring them as knowers - GHO
Professor Seye Abimbola joins us for the Expert's Voice where he discusses epistemic injustice, the stubborn legacies of colonialism in academic global health, and why meaningful change requires us to...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Performative doubt and the fight for public trust
Writing from the US, Lucinda Hiam argues that public health must acknowledge uncertainty transparently, while unflinchingly confronting bad faith political figures who peddle lies and exploit mistrust...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM