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In this issue
- Editorial Standards & Methods
Who Counts as an Author? The ICMJE Criteria This Desk Applies
Contributing data or funding isn’t enough for a byline. Here is the four-part authorship test and disclosure standard this desk applies before publication.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Global Health Policy
Gavi Graduation: What Happens When a Country Ages Out of Vaccine Aid
Gavi’s graduation policy phases countries off donor-funded vaccines over years, not overnight — India and Vietnam show why that gradual design matters.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Outbreak Case Studies
Goma, 1994: The Cholera Outbreak That Outran the Response
In 1994, cholera killed thousands of Rwandan refugees in Goma within days. A case study in why response speed decided the outcome.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Global Health Policy
National HTA Agency or Regional Network? How Developing Nations Build Health Technology Assessment Capacity
Health technology assessment is becoming the tool that decides what care gets funded. Should a developing nation build its own agency or join a regional network?
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Temperature Monitoring & Data Loggers
Temperature Excursion Response: The First 60 Minutes After a Cold Chain Alarm
A logger alarm alone does not tell a field team whether stock is safe. Here is the isolate-check-decide sequence WHO/UNICEF guidance points toward.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Point-of-Care Analyzers
Point-of-Care Analyzer Cartridges: The Storage Rules That Decide If a Result Can Be Trusted
The analyzer gets the attention, but the disposable cartridge is where field point-of-care testing actually fails. Here is what the storage rules require.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Operational Research
Inside SORT IT: How Operational Research Turns Field Data Into Published Evidence
How the SORT IT model turns a field program’s own routine data into a peer-reviewed operational research paper, module by module.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Yellow Fever Vaccination Certificates: What the 10-Day Rule and the 2016 Lifetime-Validity Change Actually Require
Why the yellow fever vaccine certificate takes 10 days to activate, why it no longer expires after a decade, and what that means for travelers.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Solar & Off-Grid Refrigeration
Solar Direct-Drive vs. Battery-Based Vaccine Refrigerators: Choosing the Right Off-Grid Technology
Two solar cold-chain technologies work differently. Here’s how site conditions, maintenance capacity, and budget decide which one fits your program.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Malaria & Vector-Borne Disease
Bed Nets or Indoor Spraying? What the Cost-Effectiveness Evidence Actually Shows
WHO guidance and field cost data compare insecticide-treated bed nets with indoor residual spraying, and why combining them isn’t automatically better.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs)
Why a Rapid Diagnostic Test Can Read Negative During Active Infection
How antigen and antibody timing drives false negatives on HIV, malaria, and dengue rapid diagnostic tests, and what that means for reading results.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read - Public Health Surveillance
Indicator-Based vs. Event-Based Surveillance: Two Signals, One Early Warning System
Case counts and internet rumors serve different roles in outbreak detection. Here is how indicator-based and event-based surveillance actually complement each other.
IHJ Editorial Board16 August 20265 min read