What a great day! It isn't hard to get excited about GHS 2019, especially after meeting (via teleconference) with a great bunch of academics and luminaries in the field. As anyone who has ever organised an event of this scale will appreciate, there's a whole lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to make conferences successful events. Thankfully, with my co-convenor Rebecca Katz, we've assembled a great team of people to help us and today we got to talk with a large numbe
OK, so its done. I've vacated my apartment in Sydney, said farewell to my family and friends (temporarily) and arrived in Geneva. On Monday next week I start the first day as a "volunteer" at the World Health Organization (WHO). The first day of the next four months. The purpose of this sojourn is to undertake some research in collaboration with the WHO, and specifically the team that works on the International Health Regulations. It has been an interesting process, making th