Dr Fajembola's Opinions'

Salient points from Week 34; 1. This publication was built on a blog from the lead author, probably additional information will be added to this in the nearest future, which will be great.  2. It has a rich list of authors and contributors, majority are from the global south. 3. Global Health is multidisciplinary in as much as we don't want to confuse it with one health and other facets of health.  4. There are no selfish goals when joining global health. Healthcare involves humanitarianism. 5. Global health expertise assessment is devoid of financial weight, racism, geographical region among other indices. 6. There is more to global health than publications, interact with people and impact lives positively.  7. There are more global health experts in the global south than acknowledged. 8. A global health expert is forever a student. Be open to learn and work with anyone to make the dream work. Conclusion: The now and future generation of global health advocates from the ...

 Salient points from week 35.  1. This publication is mainly on urbanization and it complications on global health, heat waves specifically. 2. How we've chosen esthetics over one health. 3. Urban areas contribute less than 2% of the earth surface but 71-76% of global greenhouse carbondioxide emissions.  4. It reminded me of the HLPF event by UN Habitat, discussing urbanization and resistant mechanisms. 5. We are in an anthropocentric century. 6. Heat waves as a public health dilemma affecting all age groups and genders.  7.It increases the workload on the health sector by worsening underlying medical conditions.  8. Global surface temperature has increased by 1.09 degrees from 2001 -2020. 9. Effect of heat wave is the excessive flooding we are experiencing across the global north and south, making countries lose a huge part of their economies.  10. Heat waves have a negative effect on water security which in turn affects the health of the populace through ...