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Cesar Chelala
Cesar Chelala, MD, PhD, is an international public health consultant for several UN agencies, and a writer on human rights, medical and foreign policy issues. He is a winner of an Overseas Press Club of America Award. His articles have been published in more than 70 countries worldwide.
For Cesar Chelala's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 23, 2015
Houthi soldiers defying the odds against them
There is no reason to believe so far that the Houthi rebels have anything other than Yemen's peaceful survival in mind.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 6, 2015
Iran deal improves prospects for regional peace
Rather than demonizing Iran's leaders, the Western powers should take advantage of the country's status to improve peace prospects in the region.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 30, 2015
Tuberculosis showing a resurgence in China
China now has the second-largest tuberculosis epidemic — second only to India — with more than 1.3 million new cases of tuberculosis every year.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2015
Doctors being targeted in Syria's brutal war
After four years of war in Syria, some medical suppliers now fear being arrested or shut down if they sell gauze or surgical thread to doctors operating in areas under siege by government forces.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 23, 2015
Palestinians, Israelis who refuse to be enemies
Arabs, Israelis and Israeli Arabs are uniting in the 'We Refuse to Be Enemies' campaign against the unnecessary deaths in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2015
Demystifying decades of animosity with Iran
For several decades, relations between the U.S. and Iran, and between Iran and the West, have been shrouded in misconceptions and prejudices. It didn't have to be that way.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2015
Public health challenges in the Middle East
Continuing conflicts in the Mideast, especially Syria and Iraq, have prompted a substantial emigration of doctors, adding to existing problems of too few qualified health care personnel.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 11, 2015
Break the embargo with medical exchanges
President Barack Obama should begin the normalization of U.S. relations with Cuba after a half-century by allowing medical communication between American and Cuban doctors.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2015
Challenges of providing safe water in Africa
In Africa's developing countries, waste management often endangers health and the environment, yet it is given low priority by governments often besieged by other problems such as poverty, hunger, unemployment and war.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 22, 2014
Now, why not return Guantanamo to Havana?
To improve on President Barack Obama's decision to re-establish normal relations with Havana, the U.S. should return Guantanamo to Cuba, a measure that is long overdue.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2014
As Chinese live longer, Alzheimer's cases rise
The Chinese government should be prepare for a sharp rise in the number of dementia patients as the world's second largest country's population rapidly ages.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2014
A failure of U.S. democracy and human rights
It is a sad day for democracy when 12 Nobel Peace laureates have to write a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, himself a Nobel Peace laureate, urging him to end, once and for all, America's flagrant use of torture and other violations of international law.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2014
The antidote to poverty, disease and terrorism
To increase the chances of success for children in developing countries, educating mothers may be more important than educating fathers, as educated girls seem to develop better essential life skills, including the ability to participate effectively in society.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2014
Ebola threatens Africa's development
The World Health Organization's dramatic warning that the Ebola epidemic threatens the 'very survival' of societies has a public health consultant wondering where all the millions of dollars in aid to African countries to improve their health systems have gone.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2014
Sanctions on Russia will backfire on U.S. and EU
As things stand now, Russia, the U.S. and the EU are being hurt by the West's sanctions on Russia. It is a truly no-win situation for all those involved.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2014
Ebola breaking away from efforts to contain it
As the Eboloa epidemic threatens to spread out of control, the U.S.' promise of technical help is welcome, but its dispatch of military troops to areas of the infection could be taken the wrong way.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 12, 2014
Crucial lessons of 9/11 go unlearned
When one returns to America this week after spending some time overseas, one may question his own sanity, struck by the perception that the U.S. government seems bent on an almost suicidal road to war.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2014
New sanctions on Iran to hurt peace prospects
New U.S. sanctions recently announced against Iran are aimed at making life difficult for Mahan Air and other entities. But the limitations are unlikely to move Iran to freeze its nuclear program and will instead damage prospects for peace.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2014
Devastating use of barrel bombs in Syria, Iraq
In spite of a U.N. Security Council resolution banning the use of 'barrel bombs' — a type of improvised explosive device filled with shrapnel, oil and chemicals — both the Syrian and Iraqi governments continue to use them against civilians.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2014
Prompt treatment can stop Ebola epidemic
Early diagnosis, prompt supportive treatments and modification of some burial practices can halt the largest-ever outbreak of the Ebola virus.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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