BMJ Global Health

BMJ Global Health is an online journal that provides open access to its content, published by BMJ. It focuses on delivering top-notch, peer-reviewed articles that cater to individuals involved in global health. This includes policymakers, funders, researchers, clinicians, and healthcare workers on the front lines.

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Intersectional forces of urban inequality and the global HIV pandemic: a retrospective analysis

2 months ago | gh.bmj.com | Ingrid Katz |Dana Thomson |Kennedy N Otwombe |Sindhu Ravishankar

There is a global rise in growth among urban slum populations in the world, and cities remain the epicentre of the global HIV pandemic. Subnational variation in HIV burden has been well documented with some cities faring better than others. There is a demonstrated link between structural inequalities such as inequalities in education, housing and income, and inequalities in health outcomes.
Advancing global health in an unprecedented (and unpredictable) era

2 months ago | gh.bmj.com | Mark G. Shrime

When BMJ Global Health launched 9 years ago, it positioned itself as a forum to address a fundamental, paternalistic information asymmetry in global health.
Gender bias in health financing methods: metrics and data

Mar 6, 2025 | gh.bmj.com | Kalipso Chalkidou |Richard J. Sullivan

Introduction‘[power’s] success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms’. The lancet commission: Women, power and cancer investigates, exposes and challenges the prevailing asymmetries of power in relation to cancer in three domains: Decision-making, knowledge and economics.
Shifting official development assistance during COVID-19: earmarking, donor concentration and loans

Nov 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | Liana R. Woskie |Clare Wenham

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For which entrustable professional activities must medical students be prepared if unsupervised patient care without further training is an expectation? An international Global South study

Oct 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | Daniel Nel |Marije Hennus |Susanne Peters |Gustavo Salata Romao

DiscussionWorldwide, medical students must be trained to meet the expectations of competent practitioners ready for license.
Innovative transfusion strategies for blood deserts in disaster settings

Oct 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | Shreenik Kundu |Ayla Gerk |Robert Glatter |Dan Poenaru

SurgeryBlood disordersPublic HealthGlobal HealthConflicts and natural disasters create ‘blood deserts’ with unmet blood transfusion needs. WHO guidance and the emergency, critical and operative care resolution stress the need for coordinated emergency responses. ‘Walking blood banks’ and drone delivery systems offer innovative solutions for blood supply gaps.
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): the evolution of a global health and development sector

Oct 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | David Bradley |Joe Brown |Sara de Wit |Euphrasia Luseka

This research aimed to identify core orienting themes of the WASH sector, as legacies of past processes, that can provide insights for future WASH. We combined documentary analysis with expert interviews to explore how the WASH sector has been shaped over the past 70 years by both internal changes in the sector and the external forces of the global political economy and development apparatus, and how in turn this has impacted on national agendas.
Learning from the Montreal Protocol to improve the global governance of antimicrobial resistance

Sep 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | Tina Nanyangwe-Moyo |Gabriel Fezza |Steven Hoffman |Arne Rückert

Governance principles and lessons for AMRRecognising structural imbalances in power, resources and capabilities, equity-promoting provisions in the protocol were key to facilitating cooperation and assistance between developed and developing nations and promoting shared responsibility in research, technology development and knowledge sharing.18Inclusive negotiations (interests): Reconciling conflicting interests of countries at the negotiating table was crucial for the protocol’s success.
Impact of family doctor system on diabetic patients with distinct service utilisation patterns: a difference-in-differences analysis based on group-based trajectory modelling

Sep 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | Xinyi Liu |Luying Zhang |Xianqun Fan |Wen Chen

MethodsThis research was structured as a retrospective cohort study focusing on diabetic patients residing in City A, a provincial capital city along the eastern coast of China. We designated the years 2014–2017 as the preintervention period, during which we analysed the service utilisation patterns of diabetic patients to establish baseline trends.
Rethinking malaria vaccines: perspectives on currently approved malaria vaccines in India’s path to elimination

Aug 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | Kuldeep Singh |Mradul Mohan |Ritesh Ranjha |Priyanka Bai

MalariaVaccinesIndiasummary boxExisting malaria intervention strategies require an additional tool to control and eliminate malaria. The promising safety and efficacy of the R21 vaccine make it an effective intervention strategy for malaria elimination. Prevalence of both P. falciparum and P. vivax in children under five, in different malaria transmission settings in India needs to be considered. A vaccine that targets both P. falciparum and P.