Hi- it’s me today. Just want to mention that we have just published three new articles. In Creating global doctors, Dianna Louie and Shafik Dharamsi from the University of British Columbia, Canada,  discuss the role of health workers as a health advocate and use Dianna’s experiences in Uganda to illustrate their points. And in AMSA international chapters, Megan Maraynes from St George’s University, Grenada, discusses how the American Medical Students Association (AMSA) inspires medical students to take a global perspective. Finally, Dan Keith from Oxford University, UK, shares his elective experiences of delivering babies in Sarajevo. His photos are superb and I have included one here of an abandoned helicopter which Dan came across in a stroll through a park, even though it is 12 years since the war ended.

And I would be very interested in your views (and poll votes) on the food security versus biofuels debate that is currently going on at The Lancet Global Health Network. As the author of the blog entry says (whoever she is!!!) “Without doubt, more biofuels means higher food prices and more people on the brink of starvation. A paper by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) concluded that the number of food-insecure people in the world would rise by more than 16 million for every percentage increase in the real prices of staple foods, meaning that 1.2 billion people could be chronically hungry by 2025; 600 million more than previously predicted. These figures are deeply worrying. Surely the number of people in chronic hunger must come before an ill-thought biofuel target?” Rhona

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