This past December, I spoke at the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare’s (KOFIH’s) 2014 International Forum on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Addis Ababa. I also had the opportunity to deliver a keynote speech at KOFIH’s 7 year anniversary celebration in Seoul in 2013. I spend a lot of time at various international conferences and knowledge […]
A woman’s risk of death during pregnancy, over a lifetime, in Sub-Saharan Africa is 47 times higher than it is for me, a woman from the United States.1 Millennium Development Goal 5"”reduce maternal mortality by 75% from 1990 to 2015"”is stalled. It is a goal that the development community pays lip service to, but maternal […]
The United Nations has endorsed the first ever universal health coverage (UHC) day (http://www.universalhealthcoverageday.org/en/) on December 12th. ThinkWell believes strongly in UHC and is engaged in various research and implementation projects to support countries who are working toward UHC. Funded by the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO EMRO), ThinkWell conducted research and analysis to identify bottlenecks […]
