It has been a while since I did a global health blog link drop, here are some recent links of what’s has being discussed:

• Spare Change discusses swine flu communication, link

• Both the Guardian and Global Health @ Change.org are blogging about coke’s distribution expertise and how that might help with drug distribution in Africa, Guardian link, Mara’s take at Change.org. To read more about logistics in general, a great place to start would be Michael Keizer’s aid and logistics blog

• Nairobi – City toilets are now hubs of entertainment, link

• World Bank AIDS initiatives crowd out health programs, link

• And for a different take on AIDS Funding (there isn’t enough) see the PHR blog

• From Social Entrepreneurship to ‘Cure Entrepreneurship, link

• Winner of the 2009 Global Health Council Photography Contest, announcement, interview

• Malaria Matters on the global health e-learning center, link

• From Global Health Progress – A personal perspective on World AIDS Vaccine Day, link

• Want some juice (gossip) about global health happenings, then check out the Gorman Report

• Here is an award for the most sensational title of the month: Are the Only Innovations in Social Entrepreneurship Anglo-Saxon? link

• Interplast book review: The Life You Can Save Acting Now to End World Poverty, link

As some of you have noticed the Technology, Health and Development blog (THD Blog) formerly hosted at http://thdblog.wordpress.com has moved and changed names to this current site – Global Health Ideas (http:/globalhealthideas.org). Partly because of increased attention and scope we decided it was time for a more permanent home that would also allow us to do more. We are still going to be blogging about global health solutions, innovative projects and the use of technology and you can continue to reach any of us at thdblog AT gmail DOT com. All of our old posts will remain on the old site  and also can be found on this site. Please bear with us over the coming weeks as we sort through various bugs and coding errors.

• You can subscribe to our blog feed from the following link: http://globalhealthideas.org/?feed=rss
  
• And for those on twitter you can find Jaspal at: http://twitter.com/jaspaldesign

Welcome to our new site!

I would like to note the addition of two fantastic blogs to our blogroll. The first, is SmallShift – “a blog built around the belief that technology in the hands of passionate users can inspire change…”

The second is Global Health Report, by the prolific science and medical writer – Christine Gorman. She will be a Nieman Foundation Fellow at Harvard where she will focus on global health media issues. Christine Gorman has written on health and medical topics for over two decades and has been at TIME Magazine since the mid 1980s where she had an award winning column (“Your Health”). In addition to her numerous other awards she wrote the 1996 TIME person of the year issue on AIDS expert David Ho. It is great to get a couple more outstanding voices in the lonely global health blogosphere.

On that note, I highly recommend reading Gorman’s speech at the Global Health Council on getting more involved and global health journalism. You can view her speech on her blog and see other coverage at Forum One. Enjoy!