health systems strengthening – Heather E. Lanthorn

Packard on History of Global Health: devastating first chapter (we need to do better)

While i intend to write more about Packard’s new book (delightfully if uncomfortably subtitled, interventions into the lives of others) once i am through with it, a paragraph in the opening chapter seemed both so important and accurate as to merit sharing immediately — particularly given the lessons it may hold for the Universal Health CoverageContinue reading “Packard on History of Global Health: devastating first chapter (we need to do better)”

data systems strengthening

i have been saying for some time that my next moves will be into monitoring and vital registration (more specifically, a “poor richard” start-up to help countries to measure the certainties of life: (birth), death, and taxes. (if village pastors could get it done with ink and scroll in the 16th c across northern Europe, whyContinue reading “data systems strengthening”