Articles by Steven Lott

Written by: Steven Lott Published: May 8, 2012 Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations - 12th round starts in Dallas Representatives from the United States and nine Pacific Rim nations are meeting in Dallas over the next ten days (May 8 - 18, 2012) for the 12th round of the... More » Tags: Articles, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Darussalam, Intellectual property, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, trade, Vietnam, USA	Written by: Steven Lott Published: May 3, 2012 Stakeholders appeal to US government on global health issues in advance of World Health Assembly On April 30, the Office of Global Affairs, Health and Human Services held a Stakeholder Listening Session in advance of the 65th World Health Assembly. The... More » Tags: Articles, Global health, NCDs, Vaccines, USA
Written by: Steven Lott Published: February 28, 2012 Children in an urban world Today, UNICEF released their 2012 State of the World's Children Report,... More » Tags: Articles, child health, Global, Health policy	Written by: Steven Lott Published: January 16, 2012 The global burden of NCDs An overview of the global impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) - the biggest cause of death worldwide. The social and economic impacts of NCDs were... More » Tags: Global, Global health, NCDs, Presentations
Written by: Steven Lott Published: January 10, 2012 Social media and health - Twitter feeds were faster than traditional sources in tracking cholera in post-earthquake Haiti Twitter feeds and internet-based news were faster than traditional sources at detecting the onset and progression of the cholera epidemic in post-earthquake... More » Tags: Articles, Haiti, mhealth, Social media	Written by: Steven Lott Published: November 28, 2011 India's growing healthcare crisis - challenges of equity, capacity and funding In India, some of the best healthcare in the world is delivered through the private sector. Nine out of ten doctors in India work in the private sector. But the... More » Tags: Access to healthcare, Articles, Global health, India
Written by: Steven Lott Published: October 28, 2011 WIPO Re:Search initiative to drive R&D in Neglected Tropical Diseases The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently announced the launch of Re:Search – a new consortium where public and private sector organizations... More » Tags: Articles, Global, Global health, innovation, Intellectual property, Neglected tropical diseases	Written by: Steven Lott Published: October 11, 2011 Worldwide TB cases decline - WHO 2011 TB Report The World Health Organization recently released the 2011 Global Tuberculosis Control... More » Tags: Articles, Global, Global health, Tuberculosis