Fellows & Editors
Julia Manning
- Trip:
- Kenya 2012
- Affiliation:
- Daily Mail and 2020health
- Country:
- Kenya
- Year:
- 2012
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Julia Manning blogs for the Daily Mail. She studied visual science at City University and became a member of the College of Optometrists in 1991. Her career has included being a visiting lecturer in at City University, visiting clinician at the Royal Free Hospital, working with Primary Care Trusts and a Director of the UK Institute of Optometry. She also specialized in diabetes and founded Julia Manning Eyecare, a practice for people with mental and physical disabilities. In 2005 she was a candidate in the general election in a seat she was guaranteed not to win, and in 2006 she established 2020health.org, an independent think tank that seeks to both improve individual health and create the conditions for a healthy society. 2020health research publications have covered alcohol, telehealth, employment, the economy, pricing of medicines, biotechnology, NHS reform and fraud.
Stories
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After Eighty Years, No Prosecutions for FGM in the UK
As long ago as 1932, the MP Colonel Wedgwood (direct descendent of the famous potter) spoke in parliament on the 'horrible practice of female circumcision' that he had seen in Kenya and questioned...
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Pills and Power: Why Access to Contraception Isn’t Enough
Winnie was 13 and had been through the “Healthy Choices” programme supported by the U.S.-based Centre for Disease Control satellite that is based in Kisumu County, Kenya. The programme...
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Women’s Health and How Needs Are Being Met
Julia Manning travelled to Kenya in June with the International Reporting Project from Johns Hopkins funded by the Gates Foundation. The aim was to look at aspects of women's health and...
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Getting Some Perspective on Public Health
The importance of a nation’s infrastructure for health has really hit home this week. After five days in Kenya which has an acclaimed mobile network, I have only just managed...
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Poor Countries Listen to Their Elderly Citizens; We Should Too
The Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, has given an interview to the New Statesman in which he essentially dismisses the views of the elderly. {image-1} He told the magazine...
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The G20 Must Not Leave the Sick Behind
On the wall of Arthur and Marion’s house is a calendar. By the light of the paraffin lamp I can see that it’s three years out of date,...
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