Some topics to write about
As I have highlighted in this week’s Lancet Digest, and The Lancet Student Recommends the finalé of the Health and Human Rights Series is absolutely mind-blowing. It features the narratives of some doctors who have witnessed human rights abuses, including James Orbinski who writes very powerfully about his experiences of being Head of Mission with Médecins Sans Frontières during the Rwandan Genocide. He includes one of the most enlightening quotes about humanitarianism that I have ever heard/read:
“Humanitarianism cannot end war, create peace or clear consciences of politically indifferent. It is a human response to political failure-an immediate short term act that cannot absolve political responsibility for public security either nationally or internationally.”
But if you are left feeling a bit bereft now that this series has finished, I just wanted to highlighted THREE amazing series that The Lancet will be publishing in the next couple of months. During September, there will be two series, one on Global Mental Health and another on Energy and Health (as in global warming/climate change sort of energy NOT kilojoules, mitochondria etc). Then in October there will be one on ‘Women Deliver’ to coincide with the international Women Deliver Conference in London- a landmark global conference that will focus on creating political will to save the lives and improve the health of women, mothers and newborn babies around the world.
So just in case you are interested in writing for TheLancetStudent.com but don’t know what to write about, some articles in any of these three areas would be a great place to start. Please just make sure you read the Write for Us guidelines first. Thanks! Rhona
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