Recent work
You can see examples of my recent work below.
More deficiencies uncovered at blood plasma donor centres in Canada
After two deaths in Winnipeg in the last six months following plasma donations, Health Canada has confirmed that a third death happened in the city on June 1, 2018 at a donor centre on Innovation Drive owned by Prometic Plasma Resources.
Canada's new nutrition labels on fewer items after food industry lobbying
By expanding the exemptions for dairy, Health Canada was contradicting its aim of improving people’s health, said one group of researchers.
Target 2030 for maternal and newborn health in Nepal
“Many families from outside can’t afford to wait until the next vaccination day; the Smart Clinic will offer inoculations daily so they won’t have to,” says Mishra, sitting in his office with the ceiling fan whirring. But like much of maternal and newborn health (MNH) in Kapilvastu, in Lumbini Province, and across Nepal, news at the Basic Hospital is not all positive.
‘It benefits investors, not locals’: Indigenous leaders oppose Nepal cable car project
Three controversial development projects in Nepal face fierce resistance from Indigenous groups determined to defend their sacred sites and culture.
Burn injuries a long-simmering issue in Nepal
Roughly 60,000 people are injured by burns in Nepal every year, most of them in rural areas. Recent incidents involving high-profile politicians have turned the spotlight on the issue, at least temporarily, but simple prevention measures are being neglected.
Can Nepal again lead the world in fighting malnutrition?
Nepal is celebrated globally for its success in fighting malnutrition from the 1990s until recent years. Most notably, rates of stunting (low height for age) fell from the world’s highest, 68% in 1995, to 36% in 2016.
School feeding is now the world's largest social safety net
Worldwide 388 million students, or 1 in 2 schoolchildren, received at least one meal or snack per day at school before the COVID-19 pandemic in what the World Food Programme (WFP), quoting the World Bank, calls the world’s “most extensive social safety net.”
Sleeping outside after the Jajarkot earthquake killed a mother in Nepal — then it didn't
Like any mother, Sharmila Chadara just wanted to get home to see her child. It was this primal urge, and other unrelated factors, that directly resulted in her death on the night of 24 November.
USAID cuts: Some maternal & child health initiatives in Nepal end, others uncertain
The hiring of 36 nurses to promote breastfeeding and creation of seven simulation labs designed to improve workers’ maternal healthcare skills are two programmes that have been slashed after USAID stopped operating in February.