The Global Liver Institute "Liver Health is Public Health" Initiative

Global health is (local) public health.

The global burden of liver disease: a challenge for methods and for public health

New Global Burden of Disease estimates for liver cirrhosis, published in BMC Medicine, suggest that cirrhosis caused over a million deaths in 2010, with a further million due to liver cancer and acute hepatitis. Cause-specific mortality data were very sparse for some regions, particularly in Africa, with no relevant mortality data for 58/187 countries. Liver disease involves infectious, maligna...

Advancing Public Health on the Changing Global Trade and Investment Agenda; Comment on “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Is It Everything We Feared for Health?”

Concerns regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have raised awareness about the negative public health impacts of trade and investment agreements. In the past decade, we have learned much about the implications of trade agreements for public health: reduced equity in access to health services; increased flows of unhealthy commodities; limits on access to medicines; and constrained policy...

Founding of the Global Health Film initiative.

1296 www.thelancet.com Vol 383 April 12, 2014 advocates, and those interested in fi lm and in global health to combine the skills and the language of fi lmmaking with the technical knowledge of public health sciences and critical appraisal. We hope that this innovative approach will bring together some leading minds to better communicate the advances and challenges in global health to the publi...

Global public health training.

The debate about whether to call our specialty public health or global health seems rather like angels dancing on a pin head as we face the choppy waters of change. In response to Jeffrey Koplan’s attempt to define differences between global, international and public health the deans in the USA voiced their opinion that since many public health challenges were global, an understanding of the wi...