Neil Squires
Head of Profession for Health
I am Head of Profession for Health, a post that I took up full time in August 2011. Getting to grips with my new role, which gives me an oversight of the work of all DFID’s Health Advisers, caused a one year hiatus in the blogs that I started whilst I was working Mozambique. I will be drawing on DFID health advisers experience of supporting health programmes around the world to highlight some of the exciting work we do.
Turning the World Upside Down
Posted 26 April 2013
I went to the launch of a new website, Turning the World Upside Down last week, and spent a fascinating 2 hours hearing about innovative ideas and approaches from poor and middle income countries that might help inform or shape health in the richer world. The beauty of the Turning the World Upside Down idea [...]
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