International Research and Events Blog

Tag: Health

      • 04/22/2013
        Vital registration systems are vitally important to global health

        In today’s world of “Big Data”, it seems hard to believe that less than one third of all births and over two thirds of all deaths are still not recorded around the world. For all intents and purposes, births and deaths that are not recorded don’t count – and that is a big problem.
        – Karen Grepin's Global Health Blog
      • 03/19/2013
        All the Global Health Research That’s Fit to Print

        It never rains but pours in global health. After a few years of lamenting that there really is no journal for a lot of good research that gets done in our discipline – whatever that is – in the next few months we will see the entry of 2 new kids on the block.
        – Karen Grepin's Global Health Blog
      • 03/12/2013
        The most important global health initiative you have never heard about
        Last June, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a new partnership to address the persistent burden of maternal mortality, called Saving Mothers, Giving Life. The ambitious program aimed to reduce maternal mortality by 50% in 8 districts in Zambia and Uganda in just one year.
        – Karen Grepin's Global Health Blog
      • 09/11/2012
        Pinterest and Global Health

        I try to keep up – or even ahead – with trends in technology and social media. I own almost every product Apple has ever made, including a Mac laptop that dates before the MacBook (and that still works by the way).
        – Karen Grepin's Global Health Blog