Women and people assigned female at birth are getting screwed out of the healthy lives they deserve.
Curing the Global Health System, One Prescription at a Time
It’s possible, really…
iHealth
Who cares about you, and whom do you care about? Every year billions of dollars are spent trying to figure out, just this. Why do you think the advertisements you see on Facebook are so accurate? Every time you online shop or search products or services on Google, measurements are being made like how long…
Basic Solutions
We have no idea why Tylenol works. Acetaminophen, the active drug in Tylenol, was the happy consequence of guess and check (and not without some grave errors along either). The mechanism that makes acetaminophen effective is unclear to us. It seems odd that something we use for common aches and pains is a complete mystery…
Malnutrition and Mali: Food, Education, Global Health
The chart shows the nutritional deficiencies worldwide as measured by DALYs by the Global Burden of Disease study. Mali is clearly the most affected. Is there a fix?
New prescription can help billions!
Wait until you see how simple it is!
Just What the Doctor Ordered: A Script for Improving Global Health
Using effective altruism and results from the Global Burden of Disease Study to get the biggest bang for the charitable buck.
Take Twice Daily, With Food
A Doctors* Prescription for Improving One Patient’s** Health. (*Not a doctor, **actually a country)
Can You Untangle Global Health?
Global health is a giant knotted ball of yarn and thread and chain and red tape and dental floss and guts and nerves that seems impossible to untangle.
What 5 Things are Ruining Your Quality of Life?
Find out the top 5 causes of healthy life lost, an my plan to decrease their power.
The Secret to Improving World Health
Why our assumptions about global health are wrong
A few resources from Kate Lofgren ’09, a former post-bachelor’s fellow at IHME
Our J-term course on the book Epic Measures was fortunate to have Kate Lofgren ’09 join us via Skype on Thursday to share her experiences as a post-bachelor’s fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). It was a delightful surprise to see Smith College mentioned in the book — as part of…
How many doctors does it take to cure the world?
How do we take the pulse of global health? It is impossible to perform a physical on everyone in the world, and once you did the data would be out of date. Yet, we have access to data on various health conditions, which often provide information such as the number of people affected by disease…
The Visible, the Physical, and the Known: A Non-Virtuous Cycle to Measuring Health
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
World Health Organization, 1948
If you don’t like the answer, change it: and measurements of health
Last semester, I sat in a lecture with a handful of high ranking international development types who were all sharing with us the future impacts and directions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One of them, who criticized these goals mentioned how the UN had changed the method of measuring the progress of the Millennium Development…
Reading Epic Measures at Smith College 