Why is medicine safety important for resilient health systems?
Huihui Wang, Patricio V Marquez, Albert Figueras
Background
Operation Warp Speed and the Development of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States: A Lesson on the Value of Public Goods
By Patricio V Marquez
February 17, 2023
“Society usually makes progress out of necessity”
Sir Jeremy Farrar
former director of the Wellcome Trust and current chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO)
Tobacco Use, “Deaths of Despair”, and Widening Inequality in Life Expectancy in the United States
Patricio V Marquez
February 2023
Mental health is as Important as Physical Health in a Post-Pandemic World
Patricio V Marquez
January 21, 2023
It is widely accepted that the world is currently going through a historical moment characterized by a “polycrisis”—a cluster of multiple global emergencies, unfolding simultaneously on an unprecedented scale, impacting all countries.
The Global Toll of Preventable Cardiovascular Disease: Why Does It Matter?
“Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is”
Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation on 3 December 1967
A Policy Perspective on Climate Change, Health, and Health Systems
Patricio V Marquez
Back in 2015, in his powerful Encyclical Letter “Laudato Si” or “Praise Be to You”, Pope Francis made a powerful statement, unifying both the spiritual and scientific dimensions of life, on one of humanity’s greatest challenges in the 21st Century: environmental destruction and climate change.
A Perspective: Decoding the Tobacco Industry’s “Unsmoke the World” Claim
Patricio V. Marquez
Background
Options for Action to Transform Global Mental Health
How to Prevent More Pandemics? Focus on the Relationship Between Humans, Wildlife, and Viruses
World No Tobacco Day 2022: Realizing environmental and public health co-benefits
The original version of this blog was posted as a World Bank Group Investing in Health blog, May 31, 2022:
https://blogs.worldbank.org/health/world-no-tobacco-day-2022-realizing-environmental-and-public-health-co-benefits
Patricio V. Marquez and Bronwyn King