TOP GLOBAL HEALTH TOPICS
1. Infectious Diseases
a. Malaria
b. HIV and Sexual Transmitted Infections (STI)
c. TB
d. Diarrhoeal Diseases
e. Acute Respiratory Infections
f. Vaccine Preventable Diseases
g. Drug resistance
h. Vector-borne infections
i. Zoonoses
2. Neglected Diseases
a. Chagas disease, West Nile virus …
3. Women´s Health Sexual & Reproductive Health
a. Maternal mortality
b. Gender inequalities in health
c. Reproductive health (family planning, STI, unwanted pregnancies/adolescent health, unsafe abortions, pregnancy complications, fistulas, abuse/rape, trauma)
d. Gynaecological cancers
e. Women´s health policies (human rights…)
f. Social determinants of women health
4. Children's Health
5. Nutritional Disorders
a. Obesity
b. Protein and caloric malnutrition
c. Micronutrients deficiency
6. Non Communicable Diseases
a. Tobacco-related disorders
b. Hypertension and cardiovascular diseases
c. Diabetes
d. Cancer
e. Substance abuse
7. Environmental Health
a. Natural disasters & Man-made disasters
b. Water and sanitation
c. Polution and toxins
8. Climate & Health
9. Health Policy and Financing
a. Health care financing
10. Innovation & Technologies (& Tools) for Global Health
a. Vaccines and drugs Diagnostic tools
b. Surveillance systems
c. Telemedicine & Mobile technologies
d. Frugal innovations
11. Health Systems /Human Resources/Access to Care
a. Access to health care in the developing world & Quality in access
b. Health systems strengthening research
c. Brain drain
d. Access to surgery
e. Importance of social science research in order to better understand behaviour and how to modify unsafe behaviour
f. Risk perception and communication of risks
g. Aging of the population (including not as chronic diseases but as care)
12. Migration and Health
a. Role of travel and trade in emerging infections, dispersal of resistant organisms and resistance genes, etc.
b. Growth of megacities (most of new ones are at low latitudes) and impact on populations health
13. Conflicts and Health
a. Health in displaced populations (counting on the collaboration of MSF and/or similar organizations)
b. Human rights & Conflicts (Postraumatic stress, torture, impact on public health/health systems). Count on the collaboration of Amnesty International.
c. Mental Health
14. Promotion Prevention and Behaviour Change
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Infectious Diseases
Neglected Diseases
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Women´s Health , Sexual & Reproductive Health
Children's Health
Nutritional Disorders
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Non Communicable Diseases
Environmental Health
Climate & Health
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Health Policy and Financing
Innovation & Technologies for Global Health
Health Systems /Human Resources/Access to Care
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Migration & Health
Conflicts and Health
Promotion, Prevention and Behaviour Change
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