The IWG Blog
The IWG Blog series is a collection of thought-provoking and insightful articles that explore the latest global health issues and initiatives. Our writers are primarily early-career professionals, coming from different countries, professions, and backgrounds, providing a wide range of perspectives on current and emerging global health challenges. We also prioritize intergenerational collaborations for health systems strengthening. From climate change and health equity to vaccine access and digital health, our blog covers a range of topics that are relevant to global health leaders and practitioners alike. Join us on this journey as we explore and share ideas, experiences, and solutions to create a healthier world for all. If you are interested in contributing to the IWG Blog, please reach out to us at communications@iwghss.org.
Beyond Rhetoric: Examining the Reality of Health for All and the Future of Health Equity
Health is the heartbeat of society, and only by taking immediate, concrete steps and sustained effort towards investing in healthcare infrastructure, workforce development, disease prevention andcontrol, and upholding global multilateralism can we ensure that ‘Health for All’ becomes a reality and not just rhetoric. Taofeekat Adigun, IWG Volunteer The pursuit of health equity has been…
Period Poverty in Lebanon: Breaking the Cycle
Period poverty in Lebanon has been skyrocketing ever since the economic turmoil and subsequent healthcare system weakening, where the price of sanitary products has been subjected to a 500% increase, thus almost preventing 66% of adolescent girls from being able to purchase the products to manage their cycles with dignity and wellness. Ghiwa Nasser Eddine, IWG…
Towards Health for All: Community Health Workers as stewards of Health
Organization and management of Service Delivery in Urban Primary Health Care Settings are a critical component of improving health coverage and outcome. Thailand, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia have made significant strides in enhancing primary health care by improving the urban health system. Dr Ambulai Johnson and Dr Sudipta Ghoshal, IWG Blog 2022 In 2018, the Astana…
Shadow Pandemic: Women’s Health in the Time of COVID-19
Our countries could not be more different across cultures, income-levels, geopolitical situations, as well as health system capacities, yet we find similarities in issues close to our heart, around women and children’s health within our countries.” Dr Sevil Hakimi and Dr Laura Neenan, IWG Blog 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic continues to overwhelm health systems both…
The Climate Catastrophe is not Looming, It’s Already Here: The 2022 Floods in Pakistan
This flood exposed the weaknesses of past infrastructure, leadership, and governance structures and approaches, as well as of resource planning, allocation, and implementation. It has opened up a window of opportunity for incorporating transparent systems and policy processes for disaster management, and to proactively plan for the climate crisis to ensure that climate action and…
Beyond Silos: Making Mental Health and Well-being For All a Global Priority
This WMHD, we call for five actions we believe will make a difference. These five actions, however, need to be situated in a common understanding. Our mental health is shaped by things that happen within us and outside us. Our mental health and the mental health system that surrounds us is an interconnected part of…
IWG Fireside Chat: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
As emerging public health professionals there is no time like now to have an on-the-ground lesson on the importance of investing in and strengthening health systems. We are working and living through the greatest global public health challenge we have seen in our careers to date. The COVID-19 pandemic is all consuming, but other key…
International Working Group for Health Systems Strengthening 