What is National Nutrition Week? National Nutrition Week is an annual nutrition event observed throughout the country during the first week of September (i.e. from 1st September till 7th September). It was launched in 1982 [...]
Population Health versus Public Health Population Health (PopH) describes the health needs of a defined group’s entire life span. It help us to understand multiple determinants including social, educational, economic, behavioral, and environmental factors influence [...]
Sometimes the beginning is the toughest part. Especially when it comes to inventions. Whether it’s an app, service, or physical product, whatever solution you’ve dreamed up now has to prove its viability in the real [...]
Access to unlimited information is right at your fingertips. This blog included. And that is a fantastic thing. Knowledge sharing is one of the most important, democratic things anyone can do. As the cliche goes, [...]
Humans love to repeat their history. Seriously—empires have risen and fallen in the same ways for ostensibly the same reasons time and time again. The historians I know are always shaking their heads. There’s almost [...]
The Call for Social Justice Lately, it feels like the world’s gone mad. Old, tired paradigms are taking the place of fact and logic. Problems we all thought society had solved decades ago we now [...]
It’s Time to Take Action Public health is an often debated topic with few viable solutions. We spend more time talking about it and worrying about its cost than actually developing solutions. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) [...]
Everything we do is about right now. YOLO, as pop-culture and easily dismissed as it is, has become a way of life for you, me, and so many others. With the click of one or [...]
A New Approach to Public Health Policy Health doesn’t occur in a vacuum. Rather, it’s embedded in larger living and working conditions. Yet, we handle social and economic policy as if it wasn’t. When we [...]
My last few posts have been detailing the process to take your idea from a cool thought to an actual product or service. We've covered: How to properly formulate your idea Why research is essential [...]