Category Archives: Global health trends

Latest information on the state of the world’s health released by WHO

Posted on June 17, 2018 by

In mid-May, WHO released World Health Statistics 2018: Monitoring health for the SDGs  (WHS2018). This WHO flagship publication compiles data from the organization’s 194 Member States on 36 health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicators, providing a snapshot of both gains … Continue reading →

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Disease Control Priorities, Edition 3

Posted on December 24, 2017 by

The third edition of Disease Control Priorities was launched by the WHO Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom, in London earlier this month. These nine volumes provide up-to-date evidence on priorities that countries should consider in order to reach Universal Health … Continue reading →

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Child mortality continues to decline, but large disparities remain

Posted on October 25, 2017 by

The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN-IGME) released new data last week showing that the world has made substantial progress in reducing child mortality in the last several decades. The total number of child deaths has dropped … Continue reading →

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Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades

Posted on October 11, 2017 by

The number of obese children and adolescents (aged five to 19 years) worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades. If current trends continue, more children and adolescents will be obese than moderately or severely underweight by 2022, according … Continue reading →

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Monitoring trends in causes of death – India and the Million Death Study

Posted on September 24, 2017 by

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 include around 15 targets for mortality-related indicators.  The “gold” standard method for monitoring mortality and causes of death is a well-functioning civil registration system in which every death certificate has a medically … Continue reading →

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Global health is improving, so is global health information

Posted on May 18, 2017 by

Yesterday we released World Health Statistics 2017: Monitoring health for the SDGs. This WHO flagship publication compiles data from the organization’s 194 Member States on 21 health-related SDG targets, providing a snapshot of both gains and threats to the health … Continue reading →

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University of Sydney Award for contributions to global health

Posted on May 16, 2017 by

On 27 April, I was awarded the University of Sydney’s President’s Award for my contributions to global health monitoring. I did an Honours Degree in Science majoring in Physics and followed that with a PhD (1979) in theoretical physics. However … Continue reading →

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