What your vote means for global health

In Baltimore’s inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man’s life expectancy is sixty-three years old. Less than five miles away in the Greater Rowland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three years old.   What could account for such a large difference? Sir Michael Marmot illustrated global inequality through the lens of a broken health system

MDP Student Lauren Jacobson’s, ““Going Beyond the Bowl to Achieve Gender Equality”

I had the pleasure to hear Archana Parker speak at the UC Berkeley Blum Center on October 1, 2015. Archana Parker is a Program Manager at the Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSC), a United Nations council that focuses on sanitation and hygiene in collaboration with governments, NGOs, communities, and the private sector. According

Survival 101: Malcolm Pott’s new global health course to save the world

We are a great university and great universities should not be afraid to confront big problems. My colleague Federico Castillo from the College of Natural Resources and I have started a new undergraduate course we call, PH196.003 Survival 101: Taking Control of your Future. Most of us use our experience of the past to predict the future.

UC Berkeley Senior, Penelope Chuah, on air pollution in China

CHINA’S LETHAL AIR POLLUTION By Penelope Chuah (of the UC Berkeley Public Health Advocate Online) China’s economic performance and growth in the past ten years is unparalleled to the economic growth of any other country. Over the past decade, China has steadily climbed to the number two position in the world’s largest economies ranking, surpassing