It was a delight this week to share with great students in Malawi who are part of a University of the Nations Stewardship & Sustainability course. They wanted to learn more on sustainable, household and village-level approaches to clean water and sanitation. They...
Should we vaccinate our kids? In a post-modern world, the spirit of the Berean’s to investigate to see if something were true (Acts 17:11), is easily trumped by emotional antidote. However, as a YWAMer who has worked in Global Health and...
Playable Covid-19 Epidemiology SimulatorGive it a try!Try your hand at this! For 25 years every student that came through my Community Health course or Applied Epidemiology seminar got a free app called EpiInfo, to both simulate epidemics and to help tease out the...
Ebola vaccine success: Race is now on to protect those at risk A vaccine can now protect against Ebola (Image: Cellou BinaniI/AFP/Getty Images)A vaccine for Ebola produced in just one year instead of the usual decade provides 100-per-cent protection against the...
The triumph of marketing finally gets the scrutiny it deserves In 1783, George Washington visited the natural springs of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Along with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, he took a keen interest in the supposed medicinal qualities of mineral...
