François Baird is a founder and chairman of Baird’s CMC Ltd, Baird’s US LLC and Calbridge Investments (Pty) Ltd. Baird’s CMC is an international communications management consultancy with 47 partners across the world. As Israel takes the war against Iran proxy Hamas, to northern Gaza, warning its civilian population to evacuate to the South, the […]
FRANCOIS BAIRD: America Will Need To Play The Long Game In Israel’s War On Terror
An astonishing decline in child immunisation numbers in Africa amid the rage of COVID-19, yet another victim of the pandemic
UNICEF reports that a staggering 23 million children worldwide missed out on essential vaccines through routine immunisation services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the Day of the African Child, 16th April 2022, we take an in-depth look into how African children were affected by this plight, as seen through the eyes of local communities. […]
Global Elite are Bored with Health, Just When It’s Getting Really Exciting
By Mark Chataway For the first time since 2019, the glitterati of geopolitics gathered recently at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi. Why, I asked a senior Indian diplomat, did most of them fail to even mention health. Had they learned nothing from the pandemic? The pandemic, he thought, was the problem. “They’ve had over […]
Using Fewer Antibiotics Isn’t Always the Best Way to Curb Resistance
Mark World Sleep Day 2022 by prioritising quality sleep
International Women’s Day 2022 #BreakTheBias – Testimonial from Kashmira Date
Last year, I participated in a career panel co-organized by Women in Global Health (WGH) and the American Public Health Association (APHA) – ‘Beyond the glass ceiling: Advancing women and minorities in global health leadership’ where a stark reality was highlighted – “Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are one of the fastest-growing populations […]
International Women’s Day 2022 #BreakTheBias – Testimonial from Schola Matovu, PhD, RN
My perspectives are informed by my status as a Ugandan-born individual, and my experience as a Uganda-American nurse, nursing professor and researcher who is currently working in Uganda. I am also a co-founder of our nonprofit, Nurse-to-Nurse Global Initiative (NTNGI) whose mission, in part, is to promote the empowerment and advancement of leadership and professional […]
International Women’s Day 2022 #BreakTheBias – Testimonial from Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views at the Hindustan Times, India
During my career working as a journalist and editor for mainstream media in India, I faced situations which, I believe, stopped me from being able to make as much use of many opportunities as I could have, thanks to gender bias. But I have no regrets. Therefore, I decided that when I had the chance […]
International HPV Awareness Day 2022
– an interview with Benda Kithaka, KILELE Health, Kenya
Coronavirus: when will the lockdowns stop?
As I write this, most of Western Europe is in some state of lockdown. And not just Europe; to give one example, the government of Vietnam last weekend did the same to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. What is the aim here? Many point to China, Singapore and South Korea: if we can just […]
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