Non-communicable diseases and the global countdown to 2030
Brendan Shaw “Although premature mortality from NCDs is declining in most countries, for most the pace of change is too slow to achieve...
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Brendan Shaw
May 16, 20201 min read
The coronavirus challenge
Article published in Pharma Times on 15 May 2020 about our failure to adequately fund our health systems to maintain resilience after the...
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Brendan Shaw
May 11, 20205 min read
When resilience trumps efficiency in healthcare
“Global capitalism will have to be re-balanced. The pre-COVID balance between efficiency and resilience will have to tilt on the side of...
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Brendan Shaw and Siddhartha Prakash
May 30, 20196 min read
UHC and medicine price transparency feature at 2019 World Health Assembly
The 2019 World Health Assembly in Geneva, the 72nd such meeting, as always covered many important health issues from around the world. A...
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Brendan Shaw
Jan 4, 20197 min read
Targets, takeovers and Tomb Raiders: things to watch in 2019 global health policy
As if to remind us how intertwined politics, economics and health care are in 2019, the year begins with the second-worst Ebola outbreak...
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Brendan Shaw
Sep 24, 20184 min read
Doing it for Jane: eradicating tuberculosis
Sometimes in discussions of global health we get lost in the numbers. It's something I am often guilty of myself. Individual stories of...
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Brendan Shaw
Sep 21, 20185 min read
Access Accelerated: NCDs and the pharmaceutical industry’s coming of age
“Premature death from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) continues to be one of the major development challenges in the 21st century” - ...
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Brendan Shaw
May 25, 20183 min read
World Health Assembly: a change in the air?
As delegates gathered at the Palais des Nations in Geneva this week for the 71st World Health Assembly I became increasingly convinced...
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Brendan Shaw
Jan 26, 20186 min read
Memo to life sciences executives: Happy New Year, take a deep breath and think big
As life sciences companies head into their annual strategic kick-off meetings for the year, spare a thought for their CEOs and senior...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 12, 20171 min read
A détente moment in global health
Article published in Pharma Times on the need for greater inter-sectoral collaboration on global health goals can be found here. #health...
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