Clinical and Public Health Physician with a PhD in population health, background in internal medicine , modeling and epidemiology of infectious disease, Dr Bell has worked in global health for 20 years, managing collaborations across six continents including for WHO and other large organisations. He is also on the advisory board of PANDA and a … More Global Health in an Age of Colonialism
Partners in Health was formed by Dr Paul Farmer and some peers including Roald Dahl’s daughter Ophelia, in the late 1980s after Farmer became determined to make a difference to the people he met in Haiti as a medical student. The success of Partners in Health in places as far flung as Haiti, Russia and … More Pessimism and Privilege
A garden with only one type of flower or flowers of only one colour is no good. This is a reminder that our strength, growth, survival and very existence lies in diversity. It is however, a message of courage as well. For a flower does not ask for anyone’s permission to bloom, it was born … More How Not To Be Ignorant About The World
“It’s essential that in life, you see yourself reflected in other peoples’ stories….” (Oprah Winfrey) Oprah is talking about her need, as a little black girl in America, to find people who “kinda looked like me”, at a time when there were no black people in high profile public roles to model for her, who … More Mirroring Me
When I was 14 years old we traveled across the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Australia on a family holiday. It was 1983 and one of the first international news items to enter my consciousness had been playing out on our tv screens. Footage of starving children in the throes of death had entered … More Third World Thoughts
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