The Global Health Paradox
Habib Benzian, Bulela Vava, Ikenna Ebiri-Okoro, Fidel Strub, Leenu Maimanuku, Sudeshni Naidoo, Carolina Hommes, EUGENIO BELTRANSlow, reflective writing on the tensions and contradictions that shape global health and the systems behind it.
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Your Teeth Know What Kind of Health System You Live In
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Look at a person’s teeth and you often learn something about the health system they live in. Not everything, of course. But enough to see who is protected, who is expected to pay, and where solidarity begins to thin out. T...
Ban This Sentence
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This essay is co-authored with , a renowned dental public health specialist, epidemiologist, and former senior leader at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association. He h...
Why Today’s Disease Burden no Longer Fits Yesterday’s Priorities
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This essay is co-authored with Prof. Sudeshni Naidoo, whose work spans oral health, ethics, and health systems reform across Africa and globally. Our collaboration reflects a shared concern with how global health framewo...
Tell the Truth. Then Make It Matter.
This is a field note from Geneva in the aftermath of this year’s World Health Assembly.
Richard Horton, the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, was in Geneva for this year’s World eHealth Assembly. He watched ministers of health read...
The Hope Paradox
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There is a phrase so common in global health that you stop hearing it.
It appears in the opening remarks of high-level summits, in annual reports timed to coincide with World Health Day, in press releases issued at the p...
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Global health researcher and adviser working across science, systems, equity, governance, and implementation, with experience in ministries, universities, and global agencies.
Bulela Vava is a South African public oral health practitioner, oral health advocate, and systems thinker. He is the founder of the Public Oral Health Forum and an Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa based at Tekano.
Ikenna Ebiri Okoro has a sharp eye for policy gaps and a commitment to the principle of leaving no one behind. He pushes for reforms that center lived experience and human rights.
TIME100 Health Honoree. Founder, Fidel Strub Forum & ETHOS FIDELIS. Applying watchmaker precision to global health. Occasional forensic insights on Noma, the architecture of dignity, and survivor-led intelligence.
Leenu Maimanuku writes on health, equity, and Pacific life. With 30+ years in dental education, research, and care, she’s led teams, programs, worked with communities, and advocates to improve access to oral health and amplify Pacific voices.
Dental public health specialist whose work spans oral health, ethics, and health systems reform across Africa and globally. My interest is in how global health frameworks shape the visibility, responsibility, and political possibility of oral health.
Yours, truly
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