International Journal of Public Health Blog
We are happy to host an interview with Ana Cecilia Quiroga Gutiérrez, student Editor of our Young Researcher Editorials (YRE) series! Ana is based the at the Department of Health Sciences and Medicine at the University of...
We are happy to host an interview with Germán Guerra, student Editor of our Young Researcher Editorials (YRE) series! German is based the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva and his PhD topic is...
We recently published a Young Researcher Editorial on adverse pregnancy outcomes. We thought it was quite interesting, so we invited the author, Dr. Peter Barrett (PB) for a short interview to learn more about...
*This is a guest blog post by Karimen León-Flández, MD, MPH, PhD. Karimen is the lead author of a recently published IJPH paper on marketing techniques in television advertisements of food and drinks directed at...
* This is a guest blogpost by Isabel Iguacel. Isabel is a psychologist, nurse, economist and PhD student at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She is the lead author of our recently published paper...
This is a guest blog post by Mahmoud Hassan, doctoral student of Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. Mahmoud is the Editor in Chief of the new IJPH “Young Researcher Editorial” series,...
We are happy to host this guest blog post by Amina Hamza in our Students’ Den series. Male suicide; a call for a more comprehensive and holistic approach I recently graduated from the...
This is a guest blog post by Meltem Kutlar Joss on a paper we recently published. Meltem is a senior scientific collaborator and project leader at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel. She...
* This is a guest blog post regarding our recently published paper entitled “Short-term effects of fine particulate matter pollution on daily health events in Latin America: a systematic review and meta-analysis”. This post...
*This is a guest blogpost regarding our recently published study “Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in disability in the older population in Brazil, 2013″. This paper is our Editors’ Choice...
picture credit In today’s guest blog post, Ishu Kataria* talks about growth monitoring in India The ABC of Growth Monitoring and Promotion: My experiences in the field Growth refers to regular increase in the...
picture credit Are you about to finish your Masters in Public Health (MPH)? Are you hoping to publish your thesis in a peer-reviewed journal? Ever wondered what are your chances of having it...
A while ago, we asked on Twitter whether people used Social Media for Public Health teaching. We received some interesting answers (which led to this post), amongst which was...
After two very interesting interviews with Kishan Karripannon and Tamara Bugembe, we continue our series of Meet the Blogger* with a guest blog post of blogger Marie Ennis-O’Connor. Marie Ennis-O’Connor is a board member of...
After successfully initiating the Meet the Blogger* section of our Blog with an interview with Kishan Karripannon, it is now time to meet another public health blogger, Dr. Tamara Bugembe and learn from her...
Today we are introducing a new section in the blog called “Meet the Blogger”. In this section, invited Public Health bloggers will be contributing posts about their own research and/ or their experience on...
Closing our first series of students’ articles, Stephanie Alexander offers an interesting introduction to a somewhat different Public Health topic: children’s play. We would very much like to have your views on this thought-provoking...
In this week’s Students’ Den, Martine Shareck gives us an introduction to the concept of activity space and its potential use in health research. Enjoy reading and join the discussion! Thank you Martine! ————————————————————————————————————————————————–...
I am happy to introduce Students’ Den, a new section in our blog, that aims to give Public Health students the opportunity to elaborate on a subject of their choice. We look forward to...
