RHD affects 54.7M people, kills >370K/year, and disproportionately hits young people in LMICs. Yet there’s been zero progress on disease-modifying treatment. SGLT2i’s anti-inflammatory/anti-fibrotic effects could interrupt valve progression before surgery becomes inevitable.

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @rduartegonzalez, a brand-new PhD (congrats!) currently a postdoc at Yale and soon joining FIU who works on topics related to political economy governance in LMICs

🤝 @MedsPatentPool is pleased to announce the signing of a Letter of Intent (LoI) with the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (@BIRAC_2012). 🌍 The collaboration aims to strengthen innovation, technology transfer and voluntary licensing approaches to support access to affordable, quality-assured health technologies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). 🚀 We look forward to working together to help accelerate equitable access to health technologies and foster sustainable innovation ecosystems. #GlobalHealth #AccessToMedicines #TechnologyTransfer #VoluntaryLicensing #Innovation #LMICs #India #PandemicPreparedness

📢 Our latest editorial explores the "Ivory Tower Paradox": tertiary hospitals in #GlobalSouth delivering world-class care, research, and training while standing on the frontlines of scarcity and health inequity & struggling under the weight of serving millions with finite resources Capability is not the same as capacity Resource scarcity is not the absence of expertise.... It is the gap between overwhelming need and finite capacity The future of global health may be shaped not by those with the most resources, but by those who have mastered excellence despite constraints —and by the patients they refuse to leave behind 🌍⚕️ 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity #GlobalSurgery #AcademicMedicine #PublicHealth #LMICs #MedTwitter

Honoured and grateful to be elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). Thank you to my parents, wife, siblings and children for their support throughout this journey. Looking forward to continuing research and improving patient care in LMICs. #RCP

Women structural heart specialists in LMICs drive incredible progress for patients & communities, yet access to leadership development opportunities remains unequal. The Global Leadership Initiative was created to help change that. Apply now: womenasone.org/for-physician… #GLI2026

Unless Elon is keeping fat people from ultra processed foods, this is the wrong link. You probably meant paper published in the The Lancet which is an unvalidated study. This study author acknowledges that: "Despite the US Agency for International Development (USAID) being the world's leading donor for humanitarian and development aid, there is scarce evidence in the literature assessing its impact on global health. Few evaluations have attempted to estimate the effects of USAID funding on maternal and child mortality in selected low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and some reports have offered only approximate estimates for specific diseases." And that ", this study is the first comprehensive analysis to assess the impact of total USAID funding" So we have scarce evidence USAID impacted anything for twenty years, yet now this unvalidated study suggests through statistical analysis its absence has caused mass deaths.

3/3 This is global. For the West: value-based care. For India/LMICs: access and affordability. For patients everywhere: value is not only PFS, it is life beyond continuous treatment. The next disruptive myeloma trial may be the one that defines when “enough” is truly enough. Finite therapy in myeloma will need courage BUT more importantly, it will need evidence. @VincentRK @RahulBanerjeeMD @DrOlaLandgren @AjaiChari @BrunoPaiva_UNAV @End_myeloma @SagarLonialMD

Air pollution is the world’s leading environmental health risk, and its burden falls overwhelmingly on LMICs. In this VoxDevLit launch event on June 17th, Teevrat Garg & @anantsudarshan will review the economic evidence on air pollution. Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/reg…

Attitudinal changes will require some form of interventions, particularly from govts in LMICs. If we cannot make provisions for people to dump waste, it will be difficult to ask them not to throw them indiscriminately into the environment. We need to make the provisions first.