🎯 “In an era of anti-globalism & emboldened authoritarianism, political leaders are attacking these foundations and celebrated by their supporters for doing so, each norm violation lowering the threshold for the next… The global health community should name this politics of contempt for what it is”
“The global health community should name this politics of contempt for what it is, redouble efforts towards justice and accountability, and reject the false neutrality of silence in the face of impunity.”
#WHA79 Official side events - apps.who.int/gb/Side-Even...
Game on…but for Germany… “Germany risks being edged out of both the WHO Executive Board and the broader WHO leadership conversation, critics say.“
Health.
Short piece in The Lancet - best thing I've read this week.
"Performative cruelty & unchecked abuses of power are defining political leadership, fracturing the cooperative values of global health..." then on to explain how such contempt influences behaviour & new norms.
Depressing but insightful.
The Indigenous EditorsAssociation—our logo is a creative play on a leaf and a feather quill, with a welcoming round flourish and ink dot that is reminiscent of editor marks. With a bright colour palette, what feelings does it invoke in you? #indigenouseditorsassociation #indigenouspublishing
Orban has lost. What a great day! (Unlike some sundowning clowns we know, he has admitted he lost, too.)
Or both.
Europe should regulate #BigTech instead of banning kids from #SocialMedia, Estonia says
Banning kids from social media won’t work, as they “will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media,” Estonian Education Minister Kristina Kallas said.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
“Popular” and “unpopular” ? This is a rather casual way to characterise the deadly serious business of evidence and integrity.
Bhattacharya should not be allowed anywhere near the social and behavioural sciences, let alone advise on integrity. Is this really a NAM event?
“Happy and healthy”
Those 3 great English language words - isn’t this just exactly what we all want and deserve? 🕊️
Excellent reporting by Health Policy Watch documenting the seeming mundane (and often obscure) but vitally important changes to the executive board of WHO, which holds critical decision-making power. Talk about shifting geopolitics. Bookmark this!
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Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Painting of tulip plants wirh pink and yellow blossoms
Pink and Yellow Tulips 1925 by Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt #April
💔 He was extraordinary. An inspiration.
BREAKING NEWS: Stephen Lewis, former Ontario NDP leader and global AIDS advocate, dies at 88. He was one of Canada greatest orator's. Often referred to as the best Prime Minister the country never had. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Meet the winners of the 2026 Gairdner Awards. Canadian 'baby Nobels' recognize significant advances in biology and medicine, by @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social @jenniferyang.bsky.social @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @theglobeandmail.com @gairdnerawards.bsky.social
Under the new Crime & Policing Bill drs will have to report all sexual relationships between under 16s and 18+ to police & social services. This will destroy trust & deter young patients from seeking sexual health advice. It'll be harder to help vulnerable teens because they will stop talking to us.
A photo of a hospital operating room with instruments on a mobile table and the backs of surgeons operating on a patient. A quote in white text overlaid reads “Throughout the conflict the hospital has continued to receive women and girls displaced from all states. Some midwives are working 24-hour shifts to meet the overwhelming demand.” More white text below reads “Laila Sarfo, Supervisor of Delivery Rooms at El Obeid Maternity Hospital, western Sudan.” The UNFPA logo is in the bottom right corner.
The war is taking its toll at El-Obeid Hospital in western #Sudan.
Despite limited supplies and frequent power outages, staff work tirelessly to help pregnant women and newborns.
Sadly, not all survive.
Women and girls need peace and life-saving aid.
Share to #KeepEyesOnSudan.
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Thrilled to be able to publicly congratulate my friend (& former boss) John Clemens on his !! Gairdner Global Health Award !! 🇨🇦🏆
Video about he & Jan Holmgren achievements which I know they share w/ many colleagues & participants worldwide
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fnEn...
@gairdnerawards.bsky.social
IHP nails it: "the current Global Health ecosystem reform processes are mostly about ‘changing Global Health’, rather than ‘changing ‘global health’"
🎯 referencing Krugman:
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A group of experts is urging WHO to declare recent US global health policy shifts a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (#PHEIC), warning of major risks to #HIV, #TB, #malaria & vaccination programs worldwide.
That & more in this week’s #GlobalHealthWatch.
🔗 avac.org/blog/global-...
"It is time to respond with resolve by restoring the capacity of a reformed United Nations to act, so that it no longer remains a mere spectator to events that affect us all." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As Trump Administration is declared a "public health emergency", some context from Cuba www.croakey.org/as-trump-adm...
WHO has been requested by its Executive Board to convene relevant global health actors in the design of a proposal on a joint process to support transformation of the global health architecture (GHA).
Provide your input
All input must be received before 18 April 2026
www.who.int/news-room/ar...
