Big Tobacco is No Longer Selling Cigarettes – It Is Engineering Addiction 04/05/2026 Hans Henri P. Kluge Europe needs a more precise focus to address the tobacco industry’s “engineered architecture of addiction”, featuring flavoured tobacco and nicotine products with ever more sleek designs. As an early champion of global tobacco legislation, the region can reposition itself to lead again – including through updated European Union directives on tobacco product regulation, advertising and […] Continue reading -> Why are People Still Dying Needlessly of AIDS? Politics – not Science – is to Blame 29/11/2024 Hans Henri P. Kluge & Robb Butler This was the question posed to us recently by a young person from our Youth4Health network. Our answer, both simple and sad: the reasons are not medical. As we observe World AIDS Day on Sunday, 1 December, the biggest remaining hurdles in the fight against HIV/AIDS in our region, and indeed much of our world, […] Continue reading -> Health As a Driver of Innovation Not Just a Recipient 03/04/2024 Hans Henri P. Kluge As WHO unveils S.A.R.A.H. (Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health), its new digital health promoter prototype powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), and available in eight languages 24 hours a day, WHO’s Regional Director for Europe writes about harnessing innovation in health to help meet critical public health challenges, both now and in the future. […] Continue reading ->
Why are People Still Dying Needlessly of AIDS? Politics – not Science – is to Blame 29/11/2024 Hans Henri P. Kluge & Robb Butler This was the question posed to us recently by a young person from our Youth4Health network. Our answer, both simple and sad: the reasons are not medical. As we observe World AIDS Day on Sunday, 1 December, the biggest remaining hurdles in the fight against HIV/AIDS in our region, and indeed much of our world, […] Continue reading -> Health As a Driver of Innovation Not Just a Recipient 03/04/2024 Hans Henri P. Kluge As WHO unveils S.A.R.A.H. (Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health), its new digital health promoter prototype powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), and available in eight languages 24 hours a day, WHO’s Regional Director for Europe writes about harnessing innovation in health to help meet critical public health challenges, both now and in the future. […] Continue reading ->
Health As a Driver of Innovation Not Just a Recipient 03/04/2024 Hans Henri P. Kluge As WHO unveils S.A.R.A.H. (Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health), its new digital health promoter prototype powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), and available in eight languages 24 hours a day, WHO’s Regional Director for Europe writes about harnessing innovation in health to help meet critical public health challenges, both now and in the future. […] Continue reading ->