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Gavin Mark Yamey

Hymowitz Family Professor of the Practice in Global Health
Duke Global Health Institute

Selected Publications


Barriers and facilitators to implementing comprehensive sex education in Texas public schools: A qualitative study.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2025 IntroductionIn Texas, the adolescent birth rate is higher than the national average and STIs have steadily increased over the last decade. Sex education is not mandated in Texas and the majority of public schools provide an abstinence-based sex ed ... Full text Cite

Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · October 2024 Full text Cite

How feasible is it to mobilize $31 billion a year for pandemic preparedness and response? An economic growth modelling analysis.

Journal Article Globalization and health · July 2024 BackgroundCovid-19 has reinforced health and economic cases for investing in pandemic preparedness and response (PPR). The World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO) propose that low- and middle-income governments and donor countries should in ... Full text Cite

Vaccine value profile for schistosomiasis.

Journal Article Vaccine · July 2024 Schistosomiasis is caused by parasitic flatworms (Schistosoma). The disease in humans can be caused by seven different species of Schistosoma: S. mansoni, S. japonicum, S. haematobium, S. malayensis, S. mekongi, S. guineensis and S. intercalatum, as well a ... Full text Cite

Pandemic lessons for the 2024 US presidential election.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 2024 Full text Cite

Dynamics of combatting market-driven epidemics: Insights from U.S. reduction of cigarette, sugar, and prescription opioid consumption.

Journal Article PLOS global public health · January 2024 Misuse and overconsumption of certain consumer products have become major global risk factors for premature deaths, with their total costs in trillions of dollars. Progress in reducing such deaths has been slow and difficult. To address this challenge, thi ... Full text Cite

The 2024 U.S. Elections: Global Health Policy at a Crossroads.

Journal Article The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · January 2024 The 2024 U.S. election will shape the future of global health policy, with crucial implications for continuing U.S. leadership in global health. The United States has long played a critical role in global health governance, through multilateral institution ... Full text Cite

Rethinking how development assistance for health can catalyse progress on primary health care.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · December 2023 Global campaigns to control HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and vaccine-preventable illnesses showed that large-scale impact can be achieved by using additional international financing to support selected, evidence-based, high-impact investment areas and to ca ... Full text Cite

Investing in a global pooled-funding mechanism for late-stage clinical trials of poverty-related and neglected diseases: an economic evaluation.

Journal Article BMJ global health · May 2023 IntroductionPoverty-related and neglected diseases (PRNDs) cause over three million deaths annually. Despite this burden, there is a large gap between actual funding for PRND research and development (R&D) and the funding needed to launch PRND pro ... Full text Cite

Effects of public financing of essential maternal and child health interventions across wealth quintiles in Nigeria: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · April 2023 BackgroundMaternal and newborn mortality rates in Nigeria are among the highest globally, and large socioeconomic inequalities exist in access to maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services in the country. Inequalities also exist in catast ... Full text Cite

Is Nigeria on course to achieve universal health coverage in the context of its epidemiological and financing transition? A knowledge, capacity and policy gap analysis (a qualitative study).

Journal Article BMJ open · March 2023 ObjectivesThis study aimed to assess Nigeria's preparedness to finance and drive the universal health coverage (UHC) agenda within the context of changing health conditions and resource needs associated with the disease, demographic and funding tr ... Full text Cite

Country readiness and prerequisites for successful design and transition to implementation of essential packages of health services: experience from six countries.

Journal Article BMJ global health · January 2023 This paper reviews the experience of six low-income and lower middle-income countries in setting their own essential packages of health services (EPHS), with the purpose of identifying the key requirements for the successful design and transition to implem ... Full text Cite

Financing Global Common Goods for Health

Chapter · January 1, 2023 Global public health is under threat from challenges that transcend the boundaries of individual nation states, including pandemics and antimicrobial resistance. Activities that can curb these transnational threats are called global common goods for health ... Full text Cite

Estimating Chinese bilateral aid for health: an analysis of AidData's Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset Version 2.0.

Conference BMJ global health · December 2022 BackgroundAlthough it is difficult to quantify, previous estimates suggested that China's global health aid has increased sharply since the early 2000s. Unlike many donors, China has no official aid reporting obligations, nor does it voluntarily d ... Full text Cite

Why is Florida's governor ramping up his anti-vaccine rhetoric?

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · December 2022 Full text Cite

The impacts of donor transitions on health systems in middle-income countries: a scoping review.

Journal Article Health policy and planning · October 2022 As countries graduate from low-income to middle-income status, many face losses in development assistance for health and must 'transition' to greater domestic funding of their health response. If improperly managed, donor transitions in middle-income count ... Full text Cite

Approaches to improving the efficiency of HIV programme investments.

Journal Article BMJ global health · September 2022 Full text Cite

Unethical studies of ivermectin for covid-19.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · April 2022 Full text Cite

Scaling up community-based health insurance in Ethiopia: a qualitative study of the benefits and challenges.

Journal Article BMC health services research · April 2022 BackgroundEthiopia has achieved impressive improvements in health outcomes and economic growth in the last decade but its total health spending is among the lowest in Africa. Ethiopia launched a Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme in 20 ... Full text Cite

It is not too late to achieve global covid-19 vaccine equity.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · March 2022 Full text Cite

Can medical product development be better aligned with global needs?

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2022 Full text Cite

Elimination versus mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 in the presence of effective vaccines.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · January 2022 There is increasing evidence that elimination strategies have resulted in better outcomes for public health, the economy, and civil liberties than have mitigation strategies throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccines that offer high ... Full text Cite

Identifying the impact of COVID-19 on health systems and lessons for future emergency preparedness: A stakeholder analysis in Kenya.

Journal Article PLOS global public health · January 2022 The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has triggered a public health and economic crisis in high and low resource settings since the beginning of 2020. With the first case being discovered on 12th March 2020, Kenya has responded by using health and non-health ... Full text Cite

Tracking financing for global common goods for health: A machine learning approach using natural language processing techniques.

Journal Article Frontiers in public health · January 2022 ObjectiveTracking global health funding is a crucial but time consuming and labor-intensive process. This study aimed to develop a framework to automate the tracking of global health spending using natural language processing (NLP) and machine lea ... Full text Cite

Preventing pandemics in the world's most vulnerable settings.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · November 2021 Full text Cite

Progress in the face of cuts: a qualitative Nigerian case study of maintaining progress towards universal health coverage after losing donor assistance.

Journal Article Health policy and planning · August 2021 In the coming years, about a dozen middle-income countries are excepted to transition out of development assistance for health (DAH) based on their economic growth. This anticipated loss of external funds at a time when there is a need for accelerated prog ... Full text Cite

Profiteering from vaccine inequity: a crime against humanity?

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · August 2021 Full text Cite

How universities can make reopening safer this autumn.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · August 2021 Full text Cite

Achieving global mortality reduction targets and universal health coverage: The impact of COVID-19.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · June 2021 Wenhui Mao and coauthors discuss possible implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health aspirations in low- and middle-income countries. ... Full text Cite

Preparing for the next pandemic.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2021 Full text Cite

Developing vaccines for neglected and emerging infectious diseases.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2021 Full text Cite

Rich countries should tithe their vaccines.

Journal Article Nature · February 2021 Full text Cite

Transitioning from donor aid for health: perspectives of national stakeholders in Ghana.

Journal Article BMJ global health · January 2021 BackgroundGhana's shift from low-income to middle-income status will make it ineligible to receive concessional aid in the future. While transition may be a reflection of positive changes in a country, such as economic development or health progre ... Full text Cite

A quantitative analysis of sources of changes in government expenditures on health, 2000 to 2015: What can we learn from experience to date?

Journal Article Gates Open Research · January 1, 2021 Background: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) requires increased domestic financing of health by low-income countries (LICs) and middle-income countries (MICs). It is critical to understand how much governments have devoted to health from domestic ... Full text Cite

Political interference in public health science during covid-19.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 2020 Full text Cite

Top 10 Resources in Global Surgery.

Journal Article Glob Health Sci Pract · September 30, 2020 This resource list could serve to orient those interested in global surgery and could be supplemented with resources advocating for global surgery from clinical, population health, or policy perspectives. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Covid-19: re-opening universities is high risk.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · September 2020 Full text Cite

Ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · May 2020 Full text Cite

Donald Trump: a political determinant of covid-19.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · April 2020 Full text Cite

Developing new health technologies for neglected diseases: A pipeline portfolio review and cost model

Journal Article Gates Open Research · January 1, 2020 Background: Funding for neglected disease product development fell from 2009-2015, other than a brief injection of Ebola funding. One impediment to mobilizing resources is a lack of information on product candidates, the estimated costs to move them throug ... Full text Cite

Building a global policy agenda to prioritize preterm birth: A qualitative analysis on factors shaping global health policymaking.

Journal Article Gates open research · January 2020 Background: Preterm birth, defined as infants born before 37 weeks of gestation, is the largest contributor to child mortality. Despite new evidence highlighting the global burden of prematurity, policymakers have failed to adequately prioritize pre ... Full text Cite

Measuring development assistance for health systems strengthening and health security: an analysis using the Creditor Reporting System database.

Journal Article F1000Research · January 2020 Background: Health systems strengthening (HSS) and health security are two pillars of universal health coverage (UHC). Investments in these areas are essential for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and are of heightened relevance given the e ... Full text Cite

Analysis of the health product pipeline for poverty-related and neglected diseases using the Portfolio-to-Impact (P2I) modeling tool.

Journal Article F1000Research · January 2020 Background: To estimate how much additional funding is needed for poverty-related and neglected disease (PRND) product development and to target new resources effectively, policymakers need updated information on the development pipeline and estimat ... Full text Cite

Current situation and progress toward the 2030 health-related Sustainable Development Goals in China: A systematic analysis.

Journal Article PLoS Med · November 2019 BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all United Nations (UN) member states in 2015, established a set of bold and ambitious health-related targets to achieve by 2030. Understanding China's progress toward these targets is critic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Middle-income countries graduating from health aid: Transforming daunting challenges into smooth transitions.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · June 2019 Gavin Yamey and co-authors discuss approaches to providing support for middle-income countries transitioning away from health aid. ... Full text Cite

Trends in global health financing.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2019 Full text Cite

Aid Effectiveness in the Sustainable Development Goals Era Comment on ""It's About the Idea Hitting the Bull's Eye": How Aid Effectiveness Can Catalyse the Scale-up of Health Innovations".

Journal Article International journal of health policy and management · March 2019 Over just a six-year period from 2005-2011, five aid effectiveness initiatives were launched: the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the International Health Partnership plus (2007), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008), the Busan Partnership for ... Full text Cite

Non-biological methods for phosphorus and nitrogen removal from wastewater: A gap analysis of reinvented-toilet technologies with respect to ISO 30500

Journal Article · February 24, 2019 The aims of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge (RTTC) include creation of an off-the-grid sanitation system with operating costs of less than US$0.05 per user per day. Because of the small scale at which many reinvented toilets (RT) are intended to operate, ... Full text Cite

Improving resource mobilisation for global health R&D: a role for coordination platforms?

Journal Article BMJ global health · January 2019 Achieving many of the health targets in the Sustainable Development Goals will not be possible without increased financing for global health research and development (R&D). Yet financing for neglected disease product development fell from 2009-2015, with t ... Full text Cite

International Funding for Global Common Goods for Health: An Analysis Using the Creditor Reporting System and G-FINDER Databases.

Journal Article Health systems and reform · January 2019 West Africa's Ebola epidemic of 2014-2016 exposed, among other problems, the under-funding of transnational global health activities known as global common goods for health (CGH), global functions such as pandemic preparedness and research and development ... Full text Cite

Financing Global Common Goods for Health: When the World is a Country.

Journal Article Health systems and reform · January 2019 "Global functions" of health cooperation refer to those activities that go beyond the boundaries of individual nations to address transnational issues. This paper begins by presenting a taxonomy of global functions and laying out the key value propositions ... Full text Cite

Valuing health as development: going beyond gross domestic product.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 2018 Full text Cite

The extricable links between health, wealth, and profits.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 2018 Full text Cite

Improving tracking of aid for women's, children's, and adolescents' health.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · August 2018 Full text Cite

How to convene an international health or development commission: ten key steps.

Journal Article Health policy and planning · April 2018 The Commission on Investing in Health (CIH), an international group of 25 economists and global health experts, published its Global Health 2035 report in The Lancet in December 2013. The report laid out an ambitious investment framework for achieving a "g ... Full text Cite

Funding innovation in neglected diseases.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · March 2018 Full text Cite

A framework for stimulating economic investments to prevent emerging diseases.

Journal Article Bulletin of the World Health Organization · February 2018 Full text Cite

Funding global health product R&D: the Portfolio-To-Impact Model (P2I), a new tool for modelling the impact of different research portfolios.

Journal Article Gates open research · January 2018 Background: The Portfolio-To-Impact (P2I) Model is a novel tool, developed to estimate minimum funding needs to accelerate health product development from late stage preclinical study to phase III clinical trials, and to visualize potential product ... Full text Cite

Preterm birth: the role of knowledge transfer and exchange.

Journal Article Health research policy and systems · September 2017 BackgroundPreterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of death in children under age five. Healthcare policy and other decision-making relevant to PTB may rely on obsolete, incomplete or inapplicable research evidence, leading to worsened outcomes. A ... Full text Cite

[Investing in health: the economic case. Report of the WISH Investing in Health Forum 2016].

Journal Article Salud publica de Mexico · May 2017 Developing country governments and aid agencies face difficult decisions on how best to allocate their finite resources. Investments in many different sectors -including education, water and sanitation, transportation, and health- can all reap social and e ... Full text Cite

Next generation maternal health: external shocks and health-system innovations.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · November 2016 In this Series we document the substantial progress in the reduction of maternal mortality and discuss the current state of science in reducing maternal mortality. However, maternal health is also powerfully influenced by the structures and resources of so ... Full text Cite

Mexico's path towards the Sustainable Development Goal for health: an assessment of the feasibility of reducing premature mortality by 40% by 2030.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · October 2016 BackgroundThe United Nations Sustainable Development Goal for health (SDG3) poses complex challenges for signatory countries that will require clear roadmaps to set priorities over the next 15 years. Building upon the work of the Commission on Inv ... Full text Cite

Trends In State-Level Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, And Fertility Rates In India.

Journal Article Health affairs (Project Hope) · October 2016 Trends in child mortality, maternal mortality, and fertility in India reveal wide variation across states. As a whole, India performs worse than many other low- and middle-income countries, although its rates of improvement have recently increased. Differe ... Full text Cite

Prioritizing Surgical Care on National Health Agendas: A Qualitative Case Study of Papua New Guinea, Uganda, and Sierra Leone.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · May 2016 BackgroundLittle is known about the social and political factors that influence priority setting for different health services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet these factors are integral to understanding how national health agendas ... Full text Cite

Protecting human security: proposals for the G7 Ise-Shima Summit in Japan.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · May 2016 In today's highly globalised world, protecting human security is a core challenge for political leaders who are simultaneously dealing with terrorism, refugee and migration crises, disease epidemics, and climate change. Promoting universal health coverage ... Full text Cite

Transforming Global Health by Improving the Science of Scale-Up.

Journal Article PLoS biology · March 2016 In its report Global Health 2035, the Commission on Investing in Health proposed that health investments can reduce mortality in nearly all low- and middle-income countries to very low levels, thereby averting 10 million deaths per year from 2035 onward. M ... Full text Cite

Reducing the global burden of Preterm Birth through knowledge transfer and exchange: a research agenda for engaging effectively with policymakers.

Journal Article Reproductive health · March 2016 Preterm birth (PTB) is the world's leading cause of death in children under 5 years. In 2013, over one million out of six million child deaths were due to complications of PTB. The rate of decline in child death overall has far outpaced the rate of decline ... Full text Cite

Subsidising artemisinin-based combination therapy in the private retail sector.

Journal Article The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · March 2016 BackgroundMalaria causes ill health and death in Africa. Treating illness promptly with artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is likely to cure people and avoid the disease progressing to more severe forms and death. In many countries, ACT u ... Full text Cite

Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development.

Journal Article International journal of obstetric anesthesia · February 2016 Full text Cite

Barriers and Facilitators to Scaling Up the Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment for Treating Obstetric Hemorrhage: A Qualitative Study.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2016 BackgroundObstetric hemorrhage (OH), which includes hemorrhage from multiple etiologies during pregnancy, childbirth, or postpartum, is the leading cause of maternal mortality and accounts for one-quarter of global maternal deaths. The Non-pneumat ... Full text Cite

Implementing pro-poor universal health coverage.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · January 2016 Full text Cite

Reorienting health aid to meet post-2015 global health challenges: A case study of Sweden as a donor

Journal Article Oxford Review of Economic Policy · January 1, 2016 The international development community is transitioning from the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ending in 2015, to the era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have a 2030 target. Global development assistance for health (DA ... Full text Cite

Newspaper coverage of maternal health in Bangladesh, Rwanda and South Africa: a quantitative and qualitative content analysis.

Journal Article BMJ open · January 2016 ObjectiveTo examine newspaper coverage of maternal health in three countries that have made varying progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5): Bangladesh (on track), Rwanda (making progress, but not on track) and South Africa (no prog ... Full text Cite

Financial contributions to global surgery: an analysis of 160 international charitable organizations.

Journal Article Springerplus · 2016 BACKGROUND: The non-profit and volunteer sector has made notable contributions to delivering surgical services in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). As an estimated 55 % of surgical care delivered in some LMICs is via charitable organizations; the fi ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Global Surgery 2030: a roadmap for high income country actors.

Journal Article BMJ global health · January 2016 The Millennium Development Goals have ended and the Sustainable Development Goals have begun, marking a shift in the global health landscape. The frame of reference has changed from a focus on 8 development priorities to an expansive set of 17 interrelated ... Full text Cite

How much donor financing for health is channelled to global versus country-specific aid functions?

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · December 2015 The slow global response to the Ebola crisis in west Africa suggests that important gaps exist in donor financing for key global functions, such as support for health research and development for diseases of poverty and strengthening of outbreak preparedne ... Full text Cite

Funding allocation to surgery in low and middle-income countries: a retrospective analysis of contributions from the USA.

Journal Article BMJ Open · November 9, 2015 OBJECTIVE: The funds available for global surgical delivery, capacity building and research are unknown and presumed to be low. Meanwhile, conditions amenable to surgery are estimated to account for nearly 30% of the global burden of disease. We describe f ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

[Global health 2035: implications for Mexico (commentary)].

Journal Article Salud publica de Mexico · September 2015 Cite

Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development.

Journal Article American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · September 2015 Full text Cite

[Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation].

Journal Article Salud publica de Mexico · September 2015 Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new investment framework to achieve dramatic health gains by 2035. The Commission's report has four key m ... Cite

Achieving a "Grand Convergence" in Global Health by 2035: Rwanda Shows the Way Comment on "Improving the World's Health Through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives From Rwanda".

Journal Article International journal of health policy and management · July 2015 Global Health 2035, the report of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. It showed that with the right health investments, the internat ... Full text Cite

Timing and cost of scaling up surgical services in low-income and middle-income countries from 2012 to 2030: a modelling study.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · April 2015 BackgroundGiven the large burden of surgical conditions and the crosscutting nature of surgery, scale-up of basic surgical services is crucial to health-system strengthening. The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery proposed that, to meet populatio ... Full text Cite

Germany, the G7, and global health.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · March 2015 Full text Cite

Putting palliative care on the global health agenda.

Journal Article The Lancet. Oncology · February 2015 Full text Cite

Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010-30: review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN sustainable development goal for health.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · January 2015 BackgroundThe UN will formulate ambitious Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including one for health. Feasible goals with some quantifiable, measurable targets can influence governments. We propose, as a quatitative health target, "Avoid in ... Full text Cite

Salud global 2035: Un mundo convergiendo en el lapso de una generación

Journal Article Salud Publica de Mexico · January 1, 2015 Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new investment framework to achieve dramatic health gains by 2035. The Commission's report has four key m ... Cite

Annual rates of decline in child, maternal, HIV, and tuberculosis mortality across 109 countries of low and middle income from 1990 to 2013: an assessment of the feasibility of post-2015 goals.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · December 2014 BackgroundMeasuring a country's health performance has focused mostly on estimating levels of mortality. An alternative is to measure rates of decline in mortality, which are more sensitive to changes in health policy than are mortality levels. Hi ... Full text Cite

Commentary: False dichotomy hinders global health.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · September 2014 Full text Cite

The men's health gap: men must be included in the global health equity agenda.

Journal Article Bulletin of the World Health Organization · August 2014 Full text Cite

The 2030 sustainable development goal for health.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · August 2014 Full text Cite

The bias busters.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · July 2014 Full text Cite

Introduction

Book · April 14, 2014 Cite

An argument for evidence-based policy-making in global health

Chapter · April 14, 2014 From its early origins in the 1990s, evidence-based medicine has become a major driving force in healthcare improvement worldwide and has prompted other evidence-based “movements, " including evidence-based policy-making (EBP) in global health. EBP approac ... Full text Cite

Investing in health--authors' reply.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · March 2014 Full text Cite

Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · December 2013 Full text Cite

Reproductive and maternal health in the post-2015 era: cervical cancer must be a priority.

Journal Article PLoS Med · August 2013 Ruby Singhrao and colleagues propose four arguments for why cervical cancer screening and treatment should be prioritized. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary ... Full text Link to item Cite

Developing a scorecard to assess global progress in scaling up diarrhea control tools: a qualitative study of academic leaders and implementers.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2013 BackgroundIn 2010, diarrhea caused 0.75 million child deaths, accounting for nearly 12% of all under-five mortality worldwide. Many evidence-based interventions can reduce diarrhea mortality, including oral rehydration solution (ORS), zinc, and im ... Full text Cite

HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · August 2012 Full text Cite

Global Health. Paying the poor.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · July 2012 Full text Cite

Piloting the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria: what will success look like?

Journal Article Bulletin of the World Health Organization · June 2012 The Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria is an innovative financing mechanism, managed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This initiative aims to increase the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies for treating malaria. A ... Full text Cite

Meeting an unmet need for family planning.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · June 2012 Full text Cite

What are the barriers to scaling up health interventions in low and middle income countries? A qualitative study of academic leaders in implementation science.

Journal Article Globalization and health · May 2012 BackgroundMost low and middle income countries (LMICs) are currently not on track to reach the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One way to accelerate progress would be through the large-scale implementation of evidence-based hea ... Full text Cite

Malaria resurgence: a systematic review and assessment of its causes.

Journal Article Malaria journal · April 2012 BackgroundConsiderable declines in malaria have accompanied increased funding for control since the year 2000, but historical failures to maintain gains against the disease underscore the fragility of these successes. Although malaria transmission ... Full text Cite

Scaling up oral rehydration salts and zinc for the treatment of diarrhoea.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2012 Full text Cite

Evidence-based policymaking in global health - the payoffs and pitfalls.

Journal Article Evidence-based medicine · August 2011 Full text Cite

Scaling up global health interventions: a proposed framework for success.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · June 2011 Drawing upon interviews with experts and a review of the literature, Gavin Yamey proposes a new framework for scaling up global health interventions. ... Full text Cite

Pay-for-performance and the Millennium Development Goals.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · April 2011 Full text Cite

Where do poor women in developing countries give birth? A multi-country analysis of demographic and health survey data.

Journal Article PloS one · February 2011 BackgroundIn 2008, over 300,000 women died during pregnancy or childbirth, mostly in poor countries. While there are proven interventions to make childbirth safer, there is uncertainty about the best way to deliver these at large scale. In particu ... Full text Cite

A moment of truth for global health.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · June 2010 Full text Cite

UK announces cash boost for vaccines and free health care in poor countries.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · March 2010 Full text Cite

Obama's giant step towards universal health insurance.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · March 2010 Full text Cite

A new policy on tobacco papers.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · February 2010 Full text Cite

Science must be responsible to society, not to politics.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · January 2010 Full text Cite

The unsung hero of neglected tropical diseases: Interview with Narcis Kabatereine

Journal Article PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases · December 1, 2009 Full text Cite

Ethics without borders.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · July 2009 Full text Cite

Open access to medical literature can boost global public health.

Journal Article The virtual mentor : VM · July 2009 Full text Cite

The evolving scope of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Journal Article PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases · May 20, 2009 Full text Cite

A medical journal for the world's health priorities.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · April 2009 Full text Cite

Media portrayals of suicide.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · March 2009 Full text Cite

An unbiased scientific record should be everyone's agenda.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · February 2009 Full text Cite

Rape in war is common, devastating, and too often ignored

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · January 1, 2009 Full text Cite

Homelessness is not just a housing problem.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · December 2008 Full text Cite

Reform should make health the first item of business.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · October 2008 Full text Cite

Making sense of non-financial competing interests.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · September 2008 Full text Cite

Excluding the poor from accessing biomedical literature: a rights violation that impedes global health.

Journal Article Health and human rights · January 2008 Most biomedical journals charge readers a hefty access toll to read the full text version of a published research article. These tolls bring enormous profits to the traditional corporate publishing industry, but they make it impossible for most people worl ... Full text Cite

Erratum: Neglected tropical diseases (British Medical Journal (2007) 335, (269-270))

Journal Article British Medical Journal · November 10, 2007 Cite

Research ethics and reporting standards at PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Journal Article PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases · October 1, 2007 Full text Cite

Defining human differences in biomedicine.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · September 2007 Full text Cite

Neglected tropical diseases.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · August 2007 Full text Cite

Tobacco substitutes: Harm reduction or smokescreen?

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · July 1, 2007 Full text Cite

The changing face of occupational medicine

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · June 1, 2007 Full text Cite

The impact of open access upon public health.

Journal Article Bulletin of the World Health Organization · May 2006 Full text Cite

PLoS Medicine and the pharmaceutical industry

Journal Article Lancet · April 22, 2006 Full text Cite

Tobacco industry satire fails to ignite

Journal Article BMJ · April 15, 2006 Hollywood portrayal of antics of smoking lobbyists pales in comparison to real life. © 2006, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. All rights reserved. ... Full text Cite

Why PLoS sponsored a roundtable of medical whistleblowers

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · December 1, 2005 Full text Cite

Editors' reply [9]

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · December 1, 2005 Full text Cite

My brush with the FBI

Journal Article BMJ · September 17, 2005 Full text Cite

Engaging students in PLoS medicine

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · June 6, 2005 Full text Cite

Prevailing publishing system is irrevocably broken.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2005 Full text Cite

Unjustified restrictions on letters to the editor.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · May 2005 Full text Cite

Why bigger is not yet better: The problems with huge datasets

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · April 8, 2005 Full text Cite

A strategy for developing an HIV vaccine

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · April 7, 2005 Full text Cite

How does PLoS medicine manage competing interests?

Journal Article PLoS medicine · March 2005 Full text Cite

Robin Levy: Confronting Our Bodies

Journal Article BMJ · December 4, 2004 Full text Cite

A new vision for clinical trials in Africa

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · December 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Prescription for a Healthy Journal

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · December 1, 2004 Full text Cite

From registration to publication

Journal Article PLoS Medicine · December 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Menorrhagia

Journal Article BMJ · May 15, 2004 Full text Cite

Health agencies end in-fighting on malaria.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2004 Full text Cite

The professor of "telepreventive medicine".

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2004 Full text Cite

WHO urges Africa to use more effective malaria medicines.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2004 Full text Cite

Roll Back Malaria: a failing global health campaign.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2004 Full text Cite

Religious views of the 'medical' rehabilitation model: a pilot qualitative study.

Journal Article Disability and rehabilitation · April 2004 PurposeTo explore the religious beliefs that patients may bring to the rehabilitation process, and the hypothesis that these beliefs may diverge from the medical model of rehabilitation.MethodsQualitative semi-structured interviews with r ... Full text Cite

Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis

Journal Article BMJ · November 15, 2003 Full text Cite

Malaria researchers say global fund is buying "useless drug".

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · November 2003 Full text Cite

Africa's visionary editor.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 2003 Full text Cite

Gay tobacco ads come out of the closet

Journal Article BMJ · July 31, 2003 Full text Cite

New leader, new hope for WHO.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2003 Full text Cite

Multidrug resistant tuberculosis

Journal Article BMJ · March 15, 2003 Full text Cite

Magazine's HIV claim rekindles ‘gay plague’ row

Journal Article BMJ · February 22, 2003 Full text Cite

Interview with Gro Brundtland

Journal Article BMJ · December 7, 2002 On the day after Gro Brundtland announced that she would not stand for a second term as WHO's leader, Gavin Yamey interviewed her in Geneva. © 2002, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. All rights reserved. ... Full text Cite

WHO in 2002: Why does the world still need WHO?

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · November 2002 Full text Cite

Electing WHO's next leader.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · November 2002 Full text Cite

Faltering steps towards partnerships.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · November 2002 Full text Cite

Have the latest reforms reversed WHO's decline?

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · November 2002 Full text Cite

The world's most neglected diseases.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · July 2002 Full text Cite

Breast cancer and stress

Journal Article BMJ · June 15, 2002 Full text Cite

Assisted suicide

Journal Article BMJ · April 6, 2002 Full text Cite

The curious adoption of John Q

Journal Article BMJ · March 2, 2002 Full text Cite

Public sector must develop drugs for neglected diseases.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · March 2002 Full text Cite

The PSA storm

Journal Article BMJ · February 16, 2002 Full text Cite

Online resources on sexuality and cancer.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · January 2002 Full text Cite

AIDS and global justice.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 2002 Full text Cite

No: it is dangerous to ask psychiatrists to enforce social policy.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · January 2002 Full text Cite

Yes: it can be a delusional symptom of psychotic disorders.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · January 2002 Full text Cite

Do we need another anthrax test?

Journal Article BMJ · November 17, 2001 Full text Cite

Sexuality and cancer

Journal Article BMJ · October 13, 2001 Full text Cite

Sound surgeons.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · October 2001 Full text Cite

Landfill sites

Journal Article BMJ · August 18, 2001 Full text Cite

Reviews

Journal Article BMJ · August 11, 2001 Full text Cite

A choice image

Journal Article BMJ · June 16, 2001 Full text Cite

You can always pop a pill.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · June 2001 Full text Cite

Stress

Journal Article BMJ · May 12, 2001 Full text Cite

Global campaign to eradicate malaria.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2001 Full text Cite

The cost to global health of drug company profits.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · May 2001 Full text Cite

Witnessing unethical conduct: The effects

Journal Article Western Journal of Medicine · May 1, 2001 Full text Cite

Benzodiazepines

Journal Article BMJ · March 24, 2001 Full text Cite

US web site will publish list of "drug-free practitioners".

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · March 2001 Full text Cite

US web site will publish list of "drug-free practitioners".

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Pictures of Health

Journal Article BMJ · February 10, 2001 Full text Cite

World Bank funds private hospital in India

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 3, 2001 Full text Cite

Blair unable to fulfil pledge on health spending, says analysis.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2001 Full text Cite

US trade action threatens Brazilian AIDS programme.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2001 Full text Cite

San Francisco's HIV infection rate doubles.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2001 Full text Cite

The milk of human kindness

Journal Article BMJ · January 6, 2001 Full text Cite

Pop musicians boycott Nestlé promotion.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 2001 Full text Cite

Eli Lilly violates patients' privacy

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 1, 2001 Full text Cite

Rocket science. wjm launches a fast-track system for publishing important papers.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · December 2000 Full text Cite

HIV disinformation.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · November 2000 Full text Cite

Two minutes to change minds

Journal Article BMJ · October 21, 2000 Full text Cite

Why journals should not publish articles funded by the tobacco industry.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 2000 Full text Cite

HIV misinformation

Journal Article BMJ · September 23, 2000 Full text Cite

Global health agencies are accused of incompetence.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · September 2000 Full text Cite

Baby food industry lobbies WHO on breast feeding advice.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · September 2000 Full text Cite

Subjectivity can be inhumane.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · August 2000 Full text Cite

Donors reject screening panel for malaria projects.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · July 2000 Full text Cite

Can complementary medicine be evidence-based?

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · July 2000 Full text Cite

Scientists unveil first draft of human genome.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · July 2000 Full text Cite

African heads of state promise action against malaria.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2000 Full text Cite

Drug companies cut HIV drug prices in the developing world.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · May 2000 Full text Cite

Health minister announces initiatives on men's health.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · April 2000 Full text Cite

Death, Hope and Sex.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · April 2000 Full text Cite

The Fag Show

Journal Article BMJ · March 4, 2000 Full text Cite

UN condemns Australian plans for "safe injecting rooms".

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · March 2000 Full text Cite

Pfizer to sponsor European impotence awareness campaign.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · March 2000 Full text Cite

Government inquiry finds inadequate beds provision.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2000 Full text Cite

British tobacco company denies "orchestrating smuggling".

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2000 Full text Cite

Albumin industry launches global promotion.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2000 Full text Cite

Solicitor in litigation case condemns tobacco industry.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2000 Full text Cite

Advertisement breached code of practice

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · February 2000 Full text Cite

Global alliance launches plan to eliminate lymphatic filariasis.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 2000 Full text Cite

Have a heart

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 2000 Full text Cite

Drug companies seek MS patients to lobby for new products.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 2000 Full text Cite

Psychologists question "debriefing" for traumatised employees.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 2000 Full text Cite

Nestlé violates international marketing code, says audit.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 1, 2000 Full text Cite

Drug company issues warning about flu drug.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 1, 2000 Cite

Inquiry discovers fraudulent skin treatments

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · January 1, 2000 Cite

Report finds persisting poverty and social exclusion.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · December 1999 Full text Cite

Don't Be ashamed

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · December 1999 Full text Cite

Survey finds that 1 in 10 children has a mental disorder.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · December 1999 Full text Cite

US changes trade policy on essential medicines.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · December 1999 Full text Cite

Study shows growing inequalities in health in Britain.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · December 1999 Full text Cite

Only Human.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · November 1999 Full text Cite

Medicines control agency takes over GP research database.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 1999 Full text Cite

Young less tolerant of mentally ill than the old.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 1999 Full text Cite

Cell biologist wins Nobel prize.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 1999 Full text Cite

Dobson backed NICE ruling on flu drug.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 1999 Full text Cite

Mental health services are failing children and adolescents.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 1999 Full text Cite

NICE to rule on influenza flu drug zanamivir.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · October 1999 Full text Cite

Report condemns NHS complaints procedure.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · September 1999 Full text Cite

Complaints mechanism fails older patients

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · September 1999 Full text Cite

Struck off, but why?

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · September 1999 Full text Cite

Review clears Brompton surgeons.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · September 1999 Full text Cite

Sexual health. Medical training must acknowledge sexuality.

Journal Article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · August 1993 Full text Cite