The Global Health Paradox
Habib Benzian, Ikenna Ebiri-Okoro, 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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What Health Research Calls Curiosity
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In February this year, a Nature editorial defended “curiosity-driven research” against governments seeking clearer alignment between public research funding and political priorities. Its warning was reasonable: if science...
What Global Health Chooses to Cool
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Global health has spent many decades learning to control temperature. Vaccines, medicines, blood and diagnostic materials move within prescribed limits. Equipment is tested, temperatures are logged, backup power is arrange...
Let’s Take a Walk
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Let’s take a walk.
Not to a distant city invoked in a global health report, and not into a dataset that requires specialist tools to interpret. Just down your own street. The one you pass every day, usually without thinki...
We travel. But do we unpack?
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There is a French word that has no real real equivalent in English: le dépaysement. The Petit Robert Dictionary defines it as both a state and an impression, being removed from one’s familiar surroundings and experiencing...
Why Dentistry Thinks It Is Different
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Dentistry lives with a strange contradiction.
It is obviously healthcare. Dentistry deals with pain, infection, inflammation, function, nutrition, speech, appearance, dignity and disease. A toothache can destroy sleep. Mi...
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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.
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.
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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