From systematic reviews to global guidance
How BMJ Global Health underpinned WHO and UNICEF's first community hand hygiene guidelines In October 2025, BMJ Global Health published an open access supplement, The evidence to establish global guidelines on hand...
From Monash Health to Martha’s Rule: recognising deterioration earlier by partnering with families
How connections made at the International Forum accelerated international change In 2020, Australia's largest public health service, Monash Health, began work to improve recognition of paediatric deterioration by partnering more closely with...
‘Renaissance era’ diagnosis of scurvy in today’s bariatric population
BMJ Case Reports: spotlight on nutritional safety The BMJ Case Report, "Scurvy – a re-emerging disease with the rising cost of living and number of bariatric surgical procedures”, arose when a man...
Raising awareness of a rare but serious risk linked to menstrual cup use
When Dr Clara Maarup Prip, a urologist and gynaecologist at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, encountered a rare case of kidney swelling (ureterohydronephrosis) caused by a menstrual cup, it was unlike anything she had seen...
Lack of soap most reported barrier to effective hand hygiene in shared community spaces
Efforts to improve handwashing don’t always include basics of access to soap + water Lack of hand hygiene causes annual 740,000 deaths from diarrhoea or respiratory infections But despite global recognition of its importance governments...
Humanising health: conflict, equity, and resilience
Podcasts Analysis Opinion Recordings Meeting report World Health Innovation Summit (WISH) 2024 BMJ Group partnered with the Qatar Foundation to support the World Health Innovation Summit...
