My beloved Scotland
Hello There! I am back. And it is SO good to be here. Sorry for just dropping out of action like that and many thanks to Richard Lane for manfully holding the fort while I was on sick leave. And thanks so much all of you for your continued enthusiasm - and patience! I am just catching up with everything and I can see that many of you sent in blog entries and articles and so I will be posting them all very soon. Also, from Monday, I will have two student interns working with me to help with The Lancet Student (more about that later)  so I have every confidence that we will be bigger and better than ever before and get more students involved in all things global health. As for the photo? I was back in my beloved Scotland recovering and surrounded by mountains like this one which definitely helped me back to health. Anyway, enough of me prattling on. Now for the serious stuff.

I have written previously about the treaty to ban cluster bombs.  As part of that process, at The Dublin meeting this week over 100 countries have now signed the treaty, including (I am delighted to say) the UK. Unfortunately, the big 4- The USA, China, Israel, and Russia will not engage in the treaty process and still think that there is a need for such munitions. As I said previously, remember that cluster bombs are designed to cause maximum damage to the most people over the largest area for the longest possible time . So lets do something to show the leaders of the Big 4 that we oppose such weapons. I am not quite sure what that could be yet but I am working on it and would love to hear your ideas too.

Anyway, I hope you have a great weekend and The Lancet Student will be back with a bang next week.  I  have really missed you all and it is truly is great to be back. Love Rhona x

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