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Greg Paton
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Greg commented on the article |Have you heard of any good 2-4 week continuing education courses or seminars in global health for professionals? I know Oxford runs one in the summer and I'm sure there must be some others out there.
On a side note, I can't get over how expensive many of the best MPH programes are, particularly for international students. If you don't have a big scholarship or a benefactor, it's simply not financially feasable for a lot of people. There aren't many well paying jobs out there in global health until you get to the 5+ years of experience level.
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Greg commented on the article |Shouldn't the issue of the funding pie staying the same vs. the funding pie growing bigger be factored into this discussion? I think most would agree that the majority of funding raised by the GFATM wouldn't have been brought into the system if the Fund hadn't been created. If a Global Fund for Maternal Health identified a series of specific interventions that appealed to donors and raised an extra 3 billion dollars a year for maternal health, a small percentage of that going towards admin seems like a good tradeoff. I absolutely agree with your point about where money should go in your last paragraph - if another global fund is the best way to get money into those things, then I'm all for it.
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Greg commented on the article |Very much agree with point 4. I was at WHO yesterday for an unrelated meeting and left confident that they had their house in order. It seems like one of few cases where a WHO monopoly works to our benefit - maybe it would be good if this was the case for more of their work?
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