Weekly Highlights, 6/28/09 - 7/04/09 | Global Health

Weekly Highlights, 6/28/09 - 7/04/09

categories: Global Health Links, Global Health News, Health and Human Rights, malaria

Published July 05, 2009 @ 02:29PM PT

(Photo Credit: Hugh Sturrock. Wellcome Images)

June 27 was US National HIV Testing Day. Do you know your status? Alanna tells her own Experience Getting Tested for HIV, and offers the advice, "Getting tested for HIV is hard the first time, but it gets easier. And if you do have HIV, getting tested will save your life."

This wee, guest blogger Michael Keizer shows how Global Health and Human Rights are Made for Each Other; better health improves human rights, and ensuring human rights improves health.

In light of the bad economy, many people are flocking to graduate school, but Alanna spells out for us When Not to Go to Grad School. Also, if you have trouble getting things done, check out Alanna's useful tips for Being Productive.

In last week's "Friday Futures," Alanna predicted The End of the Physician. She expanded her thoughts a bit further in her post, Supporting Physicians to Improve Health Care, arguing that healthcare needs to be a team effort between physicians, non-physician clinicians and technology. And in this week's "Friday Futures", Alanna warns of The Growing Threat of Malaria.

In her post, Fear, Sex, and Pandemic - Part One, guest blogger Carol Dunn comments on the initial over-reaction, and the current under-reaction to swine flu, stating that pandemic risk communicators need to understand the irrationality of human reaction to threats.

Alanna gave an overview on a recently released report on Innovative Financing for Health Systems, concluding that that there's No Magic Bullet for getting more money for health.

For more global health reading, check out this week's Recommended Readings to learn about Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYS), a new female condom effort in Uganda, swine flue resistance, and more.

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As a research assistant at Duke University, Lillian is working on a project to develop an oral vaccine against bacterial pneumonia. Born and raised in Taiwan, she recently graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in neuroscience. She hopes to find a home in global health & social justice work.