Supporting health & care worker #MentalHealth is key to staff retention and recruitment, and helps optimize performance - just one piece in the jigsaw to tackle today's #HealthWorkforce crisis. Find out more in WHO/Europe’s Framework for action 👇 bit.ly/4dGRM9w

“I just really hope that the younger people are looking at Para sport and thinking I can be whoever I want to be." #Paralympics | #Paris2024 | Eden Rainbow-Cooper

Avani Lekhara breaks her own Olympic record with a score of 247.9, securing a gold in the women's 10m rifle event at the Paralympics. She is now India's first athlete to have won two golds.

#FoodSecurity is much more than just rice & wheat - we need greater policy attention + data availability on dietary diversity and it's drivers. We need a comprehensive food and nutrition policy from a food systems approach & decentralised food systems thewire.in/news/beyond-fo…

You are invited to our 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲. Delivering this year's keynote address will be 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻. RSVP for in-person / online attendance soph.uwc.ac.za/annual-david-s…

Feminization of the Health and Care Workforce in India and South Asia: Implications for Women’s Labor and Decent Work - a labour of love that Deepika shriyuta Dipa Sinha & I worked on more than a year ago, finally ready for sharing link.springer.com/referenceworke…

Le saviez-vous ? Le rugby fauteuil est un sport mixte ! 🚻 Comme Kae Kurahashi et ses coéquipiers de l'équipe du Japon, hommes et femmes concourent ensemble dans les mêmes équipes.🫸 🫷 - Did you know? Wheelchair rugby is a mixed-gender sport! 🚻 Just like Kae Kurahashi and her

Them: "It's pretty low key. You don't need to dress up." Us:

Critical work by World Health Organization (WHO) and partners to benefit the most vulnerable in #Gaza. The emergence of #polio anywhere eventually has ramifications for our entire interconnected world. Humanity must prevail. Peace is the best medicine.

Caring During COVID-19: A Study of Intersectionality and Inequities in the Care Economy in 16 Countries - Connie Musolino et al journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

A trans girl in Guwahati battled hostility and harassment in her early school years but found strength in her parents’ support, love and care. Recently asked to leave school for posting a bikini photo, her parents are pushing back. Read my story here: behanbox.com/2024/09/05/wha…

India has won six 🥇, nine 🥈 & 12🥉 medals in Paris to achieve its best-ever haul of 27 medals at the Paralympic Games & overall rank of 18. In Olympics, India won 6 medals, no Gold & overall rank of 71. The budget of Olympic budget: 500 crore Paralympics budget: 20 crore

Why I love the Paralympics but hate the inspiration porn. I write for the Sunday Times of India. Link: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/w…

Adivasi “dance competition” in Jharkhand (17 village teams). No champion, no winner, no prizes – all together just for the fun!

The new Series calls for a change in narrative; from presenting suicide as a purely mental health issue to also acknowledging the impact of social factors, such as ⬇️ - Poverty - Debt - Addictions - Homelessness - Abuse - Discrimination - Social isolation

People in #Gaza are asked repeatedly to move and bombarded repeatedly in areas that are supposed to be safe. Today's deadly airstrikes in Khan Younis demonstrate once again the urgent need for a ceasefire. No vaccine nor medicine can help if people are being killed and forced

After David visited (in 2008) the rural area in Chhattisgarh where I was working with community health workers he encouraged me and other colleagues to apply to study at SOPH UWC I went on to do my MPH and PhD. Proud to be a part of this amazing institution

Informing policy with health labour market analysis to improve availability of family doctors in Tajikistan dlvr.it/TDC3ZK

NOND We disabled, find unconventional ways to adapt to. “Why only nurses who are ‘one-legged’ or with ‘both legs disabled’? We need compassionate nurses who understand what it is like to live with chronic illness or disability, not superhuman robots. 11/ timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/boo…