PUBLIC HEALTH: Enhanced: Grand Challenges in Global Health

Grand Challenges in Public Health Policy

INTRODUCTION Fifteen years into the twenty-first century, the challenges for public health may have changed but have not diminished. Complacency, systems inertia, and national selfinterest remain powerful barriers to global and universal health improvement. As joint chief editors for this new specialty journal, we lay out an ambitious mission: to work with the editorial board and colleagues wor...

Grand challenges in global health governance.

INTRODUCTION This review identifies an agenda for global health by highlighting the current 'grand challenges' related to governance. SOURCES Literature from the disciplines of health policy and medicine, conference presentations and documents, and materials from international agencies (such as the World Health Organization). AREAS OF AGREEMENT The present approach to global health governan...

Grand Challenges awards 102 global health grants.

Autism and the grand challenges in global mental health.

There is increasing recognition of the global burden related to mental and neurological conditions greatly surpassing many health conditions such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. Recently, partnership among leading funders and academics has given rise to the grand challenges in global mental health initiative, aiming to reduce the global burden associated with mental and neurological condi...

Grand Challenges in Digital Health

Today, everything is affected by the digital revolution – the impact of new technology on improving the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and populations is unprecedented. Recent technological achievements have revolutionized clinical practice, from prevention through diagnosis, monitoring to disease management, and enabled unprecedented public interest and engagement in self-m...