Proposed: Global Health Blogging Experiment

Reading Jon Shaffer's post on three top debates in global health gave me an idea. What if we organized a bunch of global health bloggers to coordinate their posts around a single topic and then picked a day where we agreed to post them all? It might increase the visibility of some of the deeper issues in global health.

Each blogger would take the part of the debate that had the most resonance to them. Say, for example, the topic were "prevention vs. treatment." Maryn McKenna might write about it in the case of antibiotic resistance. I might write about it in the community health vs hospital context. Alanna Shaikh might write about it based on her experiences in Central Asia. Then we would update our individual posts with links to what the others had to say.

You might think of it as a blog carnival (defined as "a rotating showcase of interesting writing from around the blogosphere within a particular discipline"), although that may be too organized for our first effort. The most exciting part is that we're starting to get enough of a critical mass of global health bloggers that this is even possible. What do you think?