In this video, Professor Christian Burri describes the complex drug development process as well as the challenges of drug development specifically in Africa. Drug development is a very complex and …
The following article was published in June 2020 by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s research magazine Horizons – The Swiss Research Magazine. It describes the challenges and pitfalls of developing …
Drug research and development face challenges and are under pressure to develop and produce medicine as cheaply and efficiently as possible. Much can be learned from product development partnerships and …
This week, we examined health financing in Africa, exploring Universal Health Coverage and different ways of raising revenue and purchasing services from health providers. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) ensures that …
Results-Based Financing is a new tool for improving health system performance. Its aim is to build financial incentives into health system contracts. In sub-Saharan Africa, governments have been using Results-Based …
In this video, Vitor Pessoa Colombo discusses how inequitable spatial development has an impact on public health in African cities. Environmental and socioeconomic conditions are interrelated and influence our health …
African politicians have inherited the centralism of the colonisers. Land use planning was an important issue in the spatial planning of African cities. There were two specific cases, depending on …
Despite urbanisation processes starting much earlier than European occupation, African cities have had their morphology influenced by their colonial legacy. Notably, the sanitary movement that had emerged in Europe during …
For a long time, Europeans saw Africa as a continent without history. Today, the majority of historical scholarship on Africa is produced by scholars from the Global North. What are …
This week, we will explore urban health in Africa. Our experts are Akuto Akpedze Konou and Vitor Pessoa Colombo, two PhD candidates from Lausanne’s Institute of Technology in Switzerland. The …
We have reached the end of the fourth week of our course. We would like to congratulate you on your achievements. The fourth week of our course addressed Theory from …
In this video, Tanja Hammel interviews Andrea Kifyasi, lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, about his PhD thesis on Chinese medical assistance to post-colonial Tanzania. Historian Andrea Kifyasi …
In the last two steps, we identified source criticism as a key component of a historian’s toolbox. We listed the questions you can ask when you are analysing a source, …
Science, technology, medicine, philosophy or literature: Africans have been innovative in all fields. However, their contributions have often been neglected in the western world. Rediscovery starts with being aware of …
Global health is a field of many different vested interests. Sometimes the parties involved combine their efforts to achieve a common objective. Sometimes these parties put their own objectives above …