Weekly Highlights, May 10-17

by Lillian Gu · 2009-05-17 11:34:00 UTC
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(photo credit: Mara Gordon)

Global Health Guide Alanna Shaikh starts off this week by introducing aid logistician Michael Keizer as a regular guest blogger on Mondays. Michael will writing a series on the interface between Health and Human Rights, beginning with some basic definitions.

Guest blogger Mara Gordon has a neat analysis of Coca-cola and Public Health - how can we learn from the successes of Coca-cola's distribution and marketing successes and apply them to public health? She also shared her serendipitous participation in a "Human Resources for Health Results Research Symposium," and shares her thoughts on Health and Human Resources.

The big news of the week is that global health giant Paul Farmer may be working for the US government on overseas health initiatives. Alanna speculates that this position will have a lot of potential for affecting change, but also many challenges. Given the budget proposal President Obama released last week, one challenge that Farmer will certainly have to face is funding. Check out my post on Obama's Global Health Budget to learn more about the criticisms of the budget from global health field. 

For Career Wednesday, Alanna has some tips on Getting the Experience You Need to Get Into Grad School, and to escape the Catch-22 of "needing a degree to enter the field, and needing experience to get a degree." She also explores some expected and unexpected consequences of having a baby while pursuing a career in global health.

Lastly, a new study challenges our notions that withdrawal is a "better than nothing" form of birth control. Check out Alanna's take on it in her post, Withdrawal - Not As Stupid As We Thought?

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