Gavi: The Vaccine Alliance

This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) offers an operational roadmap for the new global strategy for cholera control at the country level. The strategy, developed by the Global Task Force on Cholera Control, sets out a plan to reduce cholera deaths by 90 percent by the year 2030, a goal dependent on the commitment of cholera-affected countries, technical partners, and donors. It focuses on early detection and quick response to contain outbreaks; a…

This case explores the role of social media in bringing a sexual assault incident to national attention and to trial. Two popular high school athletes sexually assaulted a teenage girl at a party. Despite evidence of their guilt based on their own boasts and eye witnesses, the community refused to hold the boys accountable for their actions because of their status as star athletes on the local football team. Steubenville, Ohio: A Community’s Reckoning of…

This case study considers the threatened closure of small rural birthing services, and how one government worker in the Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health (PCMCH) thinks about developing an integrative solution. The case outlines a PCMCH strategy that identified stakeholders and convened dedicated professionals to develop a framework for a low-risk model that could work within the recognized governmental constraints. This case would be suitable for use in understanding maternal-child health risks and…