The feeling of being understood can be profoundly comforting in a world where it is easy to be misunderstood. One sunny afternoon, a deaf mother walked into my consulting room visibly frustrated. Things changed when I began to sign to her. She expressed that she was elated to the extent of her not wanting to […]
Imagine a world where strategic investments in health not only save lives but also drive economic growth and resilience. This vision was at the heart of the 7th Annual Health Financing Forum, where hundreds of participants and experts recently gathered to explore health financing in the post COVID-19 era. As we face the slowest five-year growth in 30 […]
Surjamani Devi remembers the time not so long ago when she used to stoke her earthern cookstove with twigs to get the fire going for the family meal. “The room was full of smoke,” she recalled when we visited her small mud and thatch home in Khudwa village in the eastern state of Bihar, one […]