Alanna Shaikh »

About Alanna

Professional: health consulting, writing about global health for UN Dispatch and about international relief and development at Blood & Milk, developing winning proposals, monitoring and evaluating social sector projects, AidSource founder[read my resume] [connect on LinkedIn]

Personal: mothering, food blogging, caregiving, living abroad, taking the occasional picture

Other ways to contact me: Use the form at the bottom of this page or reach out by skype - I'm alanna.shaikh.

News: I just published a TEDbook on global health

Blood and Milk

Friday New-To-Me: Bill Easterly and the Culture of Nice
[18 May 12, 4:18am] Original post date: January 29th, 2009 Permalink: http://bloodandmilk.org/2009/01/29/bill-easterly-and-the-culture-of-nice/ New-to-me note: My biggest problem with “the culture of nice” in development is with how the “niceness” ends up being…
Me, in other places
[16 May 12, 4:27pm] Some recent appearances on the internets: I wrote about birth kits for the Disruptive Women in Healthcare blog. I love that blog, so it was a big thrill to be asked to contribute. I talked to Hildy Gottlieb about community and co…
On Mother’s Day
[12 May 12, 5:53pm] Motherhood and international development are linked for me. I’ve been working in development longer than I’ve been a parent, but becoming a mom changed the whole way I do this. My children are the core of my work,…

UN Dispatch

Malaria: Still Deadly
[25 Apr 12, 9:06pm] Malaria sounds like it should have vanished with the British Raj. But it hasn’t. On world malaria day, five truths about malaria’s continuing existence, from the World Health Organization. Read more
UNCTAD XIII and Lawmaking
[21 Apr 12, 4:11pm] No matter how good your laws are, they are worthless if they’re not enforced in a fair and effective way. But enforcing bad law is a terrible idea. Where do you start in improving lawmaking? Read more
UN Conference on Trade and Development Launches in Doha
[21 Apr 12, 1:56pm] UNCTAD, the UN Conference on Trade and Development officially opens its 13th meeting in Doha on April 21st. In advance of that opening, the conference held a press conference today with the Secretary General of UNCTAD and the President of the 66th Se…

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Selected Writings

Three Cups of BS
How I am Preparing to Get Alzheimer's
Seven Billion: How did we get here?
Bottle Rockets: Is Polluted Breast Still Best? How Not to Help Haiti More than CSR: how to promote new drugs for the developing world Why I Am Annoyed by Neglected Tropical Diseases

Recipe Blog

Apple Pie Cake
[26 Oct 11, 4:18am] This is a stunner of a cake that you can mix in a single bowl. You can bake it in a pie pan and cut in slices like a pie to serve, or bake in an 8x8 pan and cut it into squares. If you cut it in pie slices, you'll probably want to add a little w…
Cupcakes you can make for your kid to take to school while simultaneously editing your project’s five-year workplan
[23 Aug 11, 11:12am] (in other words, these are easy and very quick.)Ingredients1 1/2 cups Flour1 tsp. Baking Soda1/2 tsp. Salt1 Tbsp. Cinnamon1 cup Granulated Sugar2 tsp. Vanilla1 TBSP Vinegar1/2 cup Oil1 cup Water22 squares of chocolate or 22 Hershey’s ki…
Dim Sum Sauce
[4 Apr 11, 6:46pm] Seriously, never tell anyone I told you this, but you can make a surprisngly nice dipping sauce for dim sum - or any other asian dumplingy thing - by combinging equal parts soy sauce and coca-cola and adding powdered ginger to taste.

Photos of Central Asia