Media Coverage and public speeches

Public speeches

“Pandemics and Academics: How Universities Can Fight Global Killers" - WORLD AIDS DAY 2009 - CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
in association with HART HOUSE, University of Toronto
Professor Prabhat Jha
Tuesday, December 01, 2009 

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DCPP (Disease Control Priorities Project)

Boston Globe. “Doctors reminded of good they do. Health specialists tell of campaigns yielding success.” June 23, 2003.

GLOBAL HEALTH

Nature Medicine. “SARS-struck nations step up surveillance efforts.” July, 2003.

The Globe and Mail. “The Long Shadow of SARS. Not so fast, Toronto.” Wednesday April 30, 2003.

News at University of Toronto. “Global Bodies.” October 7, 2002.

Science Reprint. “Improving Health Outcomes of the Poor.” March 15, 2002.New Biircher Beitung. “Weltbank und WHO furr hohere Tabaksteurn.” August 9, 2000.

St. Michael’s Hospital Research Report. p: 12, 2002.

HIV/AIDS

Boston Globe. “AIDS economic hit underestimated, report says.” July 24, 2003.

Science. "Reducing HIV Transmission in Developing Countries." April 13, 2001

TOBACCO & TB

The Nation Multimedia. “Tobacco tax can prevent certain death - A global killer is ripping through the world's poorer countries largely unchecked.”   January 2, 2008.

The Medical Post. “TB ills four times as likely among smokers.” September 2, 2003.

The New York Times. “Study Finds Smoking and TB Form a Deadly Combination.” August 15, 2003.

Nature. “Smoking doubles TB deaths.” August 15, 2003.

News at University of Toronto. “Smoking a major cause of tuberculosis deaths in India: Study. Male smokers four times as likely to fall ill with TB.” August 14, 2003.

The Medical Post. “Sending smoking signals.” July 29, 2003.

Amazon Review. “Tobacco Control in Developing Countries” (Oxford Medical Publications). Editorial Reviews from The New England Journal of Medicine. April 19, 2001.

British Medical Journal. Review on Book: “Tobacco control in developing countries.” Editors Prabhat Jha, Frank Chaloupka. April 7, 2001.

Financial Times. “Leader: Kicking the habit.” August 10, 2000.

BBC News. “Global plea to raise smoking taxes.” August 9, 2000.

Globe and Mail. “Tobacco tax hike is urged.” August 8, 2000.

CNN. “Tobacco taxes could save millions of lives, says WHO.” August 8, 2000.

British Medical Journal Reprint. “The economics of global tobacco control.” August 5, 2000.

El Pais. “Subir los impuestos del tabaco reduce el consume.” April 4, 2000.

Executive Summary. “Tobacco Control in Developing Countries.” August 2000.