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Mastering Global and Public Health Presentation Skills: Your Passport to Impactful Communication

By Sabine Donders and Candela Iglesias Chiesa Picture this: You have exactly ten minutes to showcase the amazing new results ...
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Underrated Skills In Public And Global Health: Are You Disregarding Key Skills You Possess?

By Sabine Donders, Geonel Moluba and Candela Iglesias Chiesa The emphasis on hard technical skills is often high in many ...
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The Power of Numbers: The use of Incidence, Prevalence, Morbidity and Mortality Rates in Global Health

By Shazia Farooqui, Valérie Balvert and Candela Iglesias Chiesa Have you heard phrases like these in the news or on ...
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How can countries avoid the next pandemic?

By Shazia Farooqui and Candela Iglesias Chiesa In the first weeks of the outbreak that today we call COVID-19, it ...
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After Action Reviews (AARs): a tool to openly discuss successes and failures of your health intervention

By Rameen Tahir, Valérie Balvert and Candela Iglesias Chiesa A colleague came to me the other day with a concern: ...
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The One Health Approach: What is it and why is it so important?

By Valérie Balvert and Candela Iglesias Chiesa  Over 60% of all emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, which are diseases that ...
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Importance of Baseline & End-line Analysis

Imagine this: Your team is implementing a project aiming to improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) in rural communities in Country X ...
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6 Questions to ask yourself when reading research articles in public health

Students and professionals in global and public health spend a large amount of time gathering online evidence-based information to support ...
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Alanda’s 3 E’s Framework: Evidence-based, Evidence-generating and Evidence sharing

The word “evidence” gets tossed around a lot these days. What do we mean by it exactly? Imagine that you ...
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Antimicrobial Resistance

What is Antimicrobial Resistance and why should I care?

By Dorien Lijnzaad and Candela Iglesias ChiesaFor years, we’ve been used to the fact that the biggest infectious killers are ...
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The delta variant is causing a new wave: are our vaccines still working?

We’re so tired… of the never ending waves of COVID-19, of the public health restrictions. We want our old lives ...
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Why Some Countries Have Refused the COVID19 Vaccine

By Tinnie Louie & Candela Iglesias Chiesa  While some individuals have refused vaccines, at the country level, most governments have ...
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