The politics of evidence in health system crises: the case of Colombia In the context of changing notions of international development, health system crises can become highly politicized. This article explores how attempts at

What is universal health coverage, what is progress in healthcare in ageing and resource-constrained economies? These questions polarize, as can be seen in Colombia. Happy to share new article about narratives of development in health system crises, open access academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...

Kenya's William Ruto secures US health aid in first deal under Trump administration Kenya becomes the first African country to secure US health funding since cuts to foreign aid by Trump.

Kenyans' land has been grabbed by its elites before. Now its their data. Kenyans becoming data serfs in the tech-fascist playbook of Silicon valley overlords. Not accidentally but because of concrete government decisions. Redefine comparadoes. @jiahuilee.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Am IfS sind im Rahmen des DFG-geförderten Projekts »Die postnazistische Gesellschaft« voraussichtlich ab dem 1. April 2026 zwei Stellen als Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (m/w/d) (75% der vollen Wochenarbeitszeit) befristet für die Dauer von drei Jahren zu besetzen.

New call for papers: What is the future for global development?

We are pleased to announce that GDI is hosting a conference in April 2026, and we are now accepting abstracts for papers and posters.

Please see the full Call for Papers for more info as well as the form to submit: bit.ly/4omBJ6o

EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions? 29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Call for abstacts, Seed Panel:

"Trump and the Global Disruption of Development Policy"

Conv. by @andypsumner.bsky.social (@kings-sga.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social (@idos-research.bsky.social)
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

Contesting neoliberalism with human rights? Liberal exhaustion and exploitation in Colombia’s health system The neoliberal reorganisation of social policy has provoked counterreactions worldwide. One genuinely liberal contestation of neoliberal restructuring is based on human rights mobilisation, and, in...

The right to health has spread worldwide, and so has neoliberalism. Colombian governments and civil society struggle with this tension; health workers and vulnerable patients carry the burden. More here, open access @jeppjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

💊 Neoliberalism meets human rights liberalism:

In Colombia, @hanrieder.bsky.social shows how judicial mobilisation for the right to health failed to deliver and instead created a politics of exhaustion and exploitation 👇

➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our Special Section on the SDGs at 10 is now out in the current Issue of @globalpolicy.bsky.social.

You can access all contributions here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17585899...

Important, interesting study.

First part of blog: "show up as a group"

The end: "A poem!!!!"

We were thinking about the term ethics washing when finalising our publication about 'fair' health worker poaching. Here we reflect on it and summarize the work.

Rest in peace, Brian Wilson.

🚨Post-doctoral researcher opportunity
@gvagrad.bsky.social

with the FamilEA project

For a candidate in political science or related disciplines, interested in family-related public policy in Kenya and Uganda

More information about this exciting opening tinyurl.com/297jxwnc

Deadline: 20 March

Ministers delaying inquiry into treatment of migrant carers, RCN says Exclusive: Nursing union says it continues to receive complaints about low pay, unfit housing and illegal fees

"One nurse who contacted the union said she had been ordered to pay £25,000 to leave her job – the highest the RCN says it has ever seen." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

How to DOGE USAID | Daniela Gabor The Wall Street Consensus and development financing under Trump

USAID and extractivist development, continuity and change:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/how...

For those who like me sometimes like novels: 'la perra' ('the bitch') by Pilar Quintana: glad I found and read it. Finished it a couple of weeks ago and realise: will leave a lasting impression. It is brilliant.

My way to RIPE: seems this must be via Oslo! Thanks and hugs to the fab Oslo human rights crowd.

The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism International institutions increasingly promote ‘ethical recruitment’ as a standard for health worker migration from poor to rich countries. We analyze how this notion is interpreted in a country c...

Out now in RIPE: The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism International institutions increasingly promote ‘ethical recruitment’ as a standard for health worker migration from poor to rich countries. We analyze how this notion is interpreted in a country c...

Pleased to share new article with the excellent Leon Janauschek on practice of 'ethically' poaching nurses abroad. Fair migration regime for health workers: liberal extractivism. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@lseid.bsky.social

@lseglobalhealth.bsky.social

Statement zur Ausladung von Albanese: „Wo, wenn nicht an einer Universität?“ Die Freie Universität Berlin hat einen Vortrag der UN-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese abgesagt. Der Freitag dokumentiert einen Aufruf von Wissenschaftsorganisationen und NGOs zur Verteidig...

A large group of civil society and research orgs (incl the WiKo Berlin) have written a statement on the unprecedented political pressure on the FU Berlin to cancel the public lecture of Francesca Albanese and Prof. Eyal Weizman.

www.freitag.de/autoren/der-... (scroll down for English version)

📢 APPLY NOW! The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) seeks to appoint an Associate Professor in Global Area Studies to contribute to the MPhil in Global and Area Studies 📆:Closes: Noon GMT, Mon 3 March ow.ly/poHj50UKYk5

Book Launch! Join us for the discussion with @stephofmann.bsky.social, @ninahall.bsky.social, @akentikelenis.bsky.social and @ckreudersonnen.bsky.social online or in Florence on the 21 February for the launch of my book "Global Governance on the Ground". Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Argentina to withdraw from World Health Organization after Trump exit Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said on Wednesday, following President Donald Trump's executive order last month to pull the United States out of the global health group.

The opposite of health sovereignty… Milei declared its intention to leave the WHO due to ‘profound differences’ in health management, and to uphold national sovereignty in health matters. The withdrawal becomes effective one year after formal notification. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States In modern capitalism, the costs of care and social reproduction are widely externalised to women in households, but also to (women in) community organisations. This article analyses the role of com...

Recent paper on the laboriousness of community health in racial capitalism (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States In modern capitalism, the costs of care and social reproduction are widely externalised to women in households, but also to (women in) community organisations. This article analyses the role of com...

📣 New research published by our very own @hanrieder.bsky.social in New Political Economy this week:

"Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States"

📃 Read it here: bit.ly/40GPXV2

@lseid.bsky.social

I tried for a short period to do without Citavi but decided to return to it for my new project, did not even know about the update. Thanks for sharing, I agree, there is nothing quite like it.

Haftbefehl gegen Netanjahu, Deutschlands Rolle & das Völkerrecht | BPK 29. November 2024 YouTube video by Jung & Naiv

Reposting from @tilojung.bsky.social

Wichtigste PK der Woche: Vier Experten zu dem #Haftbefehl gegen Netanjahu, Deutschlands Rolle und dem Völkerrecht youtu.be/WZHXl5R5yzo (Komplett von heute)

@christinebinzel.bsky.social

Tom Stevenson · Exquisite Americana: Trump and US Power The underlying theme for US foreign policy remains elite consensus. In his use of the machinery of American empire and...

"The problem with painting Trump as the harbinger of the end of an enlightened international order is that it prompts the question of what that order is really like." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Berlin friends: next Tuesday at 4pm I am presenting findings from my new book project at the Freie Universität.

Join us!

Distributionally, financialisation has concentrated ownership in the hands of those with existing wealth, such as buy-to-let landlords and increasingly cash buyers and institutional investors, who increasingly dictate the terms on which others have access to housing.