Archive for the 'publichealth' Category
Ethiopian doctors
Sunday, October 2nd, 2005Just doing research for a short paper on brain drain. The statistics I am coming over are quite incredible. For example, there are more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago alone, than in all of Ethiopia! And of the 700 doctors that were educated in Zambia after independence, only about 60 are left. 80% of all the [...]
Politicsofhealth.org
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005The website that I have been working with all summer is now up – surprisingly fast, due to a little hacker attack that took down the previous site. What I have been doing is changing over from EZPublish, an incredibly powerful framework that nobody understood, nor used to its full, and to Dokuwiki, a wiki-based [...]
Barefoot Doctors in China
Friday, July 8th, 2005During this year, I took an amazing class in International Health Policy with Professor Anne Emanuelle-Birn. The reading package, which was longer than a bad year (as we say in Norwegian) gave me new insights each week (as Wojciech would notice, me coming down to his room, eager to share), and I choose to go [...]


