By Candela Iglesias Chiesa When is a failure not a failure? At Alanda we are all for setting targets, measuring results, and achieving those targets. However, sometimes projects that don’t reach their target still have a profound impact in our society. In my first article featured on Devex, I delve into a critical examination of …
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By Sabine Donders and Candela Iglesias Chiesa If you had been born in 1915 (in a high-income country), your life expectancy would have been 48 to 54 years. You would have had a significantly higher chance of dying before the age of 5 compared to today. The huge increase in life expectancy in the past …
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By Sabine Donders and Candela Iglesias Chiesa Picture this: You have exactly ten minutes to showcase the amazing new results of your project, the fruits of long years of work. The audience has already been through four hours of similar presentations and most people are fiddling with their smartphones. Your heart is pounding and your …
By Sabine Donders, Geonel Moluba and Candela Iglesias Chiesa The emphasis on hard technical skills is often high in many global and public health jobs. It is sometimes easy to overlook less visible and harder-to-define skills. But these skills are crucial for our personal and professional progression! We’ll explore how skills in cultural sensitivity, interviewing, …
By Shazia Farooqui, Valérie Balvert and Candela Iglesias Chiesa Have you heard phrases like these in the news or on social media? The incidence of COVID-19 cases in the US has doubled in the past two weeks. The prevalence of cervical cancer among Belgian women was higher in 2014 than in 2022. The mortality rate …
By Shazia Farooqui and Candela Iglesias Chiesa In the first weeks of the outbreak that today we call COVID-19, it was still thought that the virus could be contained. Many factors played a role so that in the end that was not possible and the virus broke all geographical barriers and reached almost every country …
By Rameen Tahir, Valérie Balvert and Candela Iglesias Chiesa A colleague came to me the other day with a concern: She wanted to evaluate the COVID-19 intervention that her team has been working on for the past 20 months, but since she knew that the process had been quite chaotic in the beginning, she was …
By Valérie Balvert and Candela Iglesias Chiesa Over 60% of all emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, which are diseases that have jumped from animals to humans. This means that human-animal interactions have a critical influence on human health. However One Health is not only about zoonotic diseases… It also concerns issues such as food and …
The One Health Approach: What is it and why is it so important? Read More »
Imagine this: Your team is implementing a project aiming to improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) in rural communities in Country X. One of your responsibilities is to conduct a baseline and end-line analysis at the beginning and end of the project. You’ve briefly heard of this kind of analysis, but you don’t really remember what it …
Students and professionals in global and public health spend a large amount of time gathering online evidence-based information to support their work (e.g. writing research papers, implementing health programs, developing health policies, etc.). As it becomes easier to publish a paper in a journal, and with the amount of information out there, how do you …
6 Questions to ask yourself when reading research articles in public health Read More »