Top US Infectious Disease Expert Expresses Hope That US Will Resolve Conflict With The WHO 16/07/2020 Grace Ren In an unusually frank statement, the United States’ embattled top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, expressed hopes that the US would resolve its conflicts with the World Health Organization. Fauci, an expert on the White House Coronavirus taskforce and director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in an interview with […] Continue reading -> As More Go Hungry & Malnutrition Persists, Achieving Zero Hunger By 2030 In Doubt, UN Report Warns 13/07/2020 Press release Rome, Italy – More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, and countries around the world continue to struggle with multiple forms of malnutrition. The latest edition of the State of Food […] Continue reading -> Independent Panel To Evaluate Global COVID-19 Pandemic Response, Including WHO’s Actions 09/07/2020 Editorial team An independent evaluation of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, including steps taken by the World Health Organization, will be led by former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark and former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The former world leaders will co-chair and Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR), the […] Continue reading -> Fateful International Energy Agency Meeting Could Set Course For Climate Friendly COVID-19 Recovery… Or Not 01/07/2020 Editorial team A landmark meeting hosted next week by the International Energy Agency (IEA) will bring together major powers to debate the key actions for a climate-friendly COVID-19 recovery in an online forum open to public viewing. The IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit will be live-streamed July 9th, and bring together the world’s largest economies and developing […] Continue reading -> Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promising Early Results; Induces Immune Response In Healthy Volunteers 01/07/2020 Grace Ren A COVID-19 vaccine candidate under development by pharma giant Pfizer and biotech firm BioNTech showed promise in interim results released Wednesday. The vaccine candidate, BNT162b1, was able to induce the formation of antibodies that neutralized SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in all participants who received doses between 10ug to 30ug, according to a report […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Will Send Scoping Mission To China To Investigate COVID-19 Origins 30/06/2020 Editorial team The World Health Organization will be sending a mission to China on 6 July to investigate the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus subtly announced at a Monday press briefing. The mission aims to fulfill decisions made in a unanimously passed World Health Assembly resolution in late […] Continue reading -> Emer Cooke Nominated As New European Medicines Agency Executive Director 25/06/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay High-level WHO official Emer Cooke has been nominated as the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the critical regulatory body for European health product approvals. Cooke, an Irish national with 30 years’ experience in international regulatory affairs, is currently the Director of the WHO’s Regulation and Prequalification Department since 2016. In this role, she […] Continue reading -> UN Economic Commission For Africa Calls For A ‘Green’ COVID-19 Recovery; Joining Other Agencies 24/06/2020 Editorial team Africa must tackle both the climate and coronavirus crises at the same time, according to a new paper published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), joining other regional agencies such as the European Commission and the World Health Organization in calling for a “green recovery” from COVID-19. The paper, Climate Change and Development […] Continue reading -> Increase In Forced Displacement Raises Pandemic Fears About Vulnerable Refugee Populations 19/06/2020 Grace Ren As the world hit a sober new milestone of reporting more than 150,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, another slow burning crisis has also reached new heights. There are now nearly 80 million refugees around the world, making more than 1% of the world’s population forcibly displaced by the end of 2019, according to […] Continue reading -> Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes On Pause Due To COVID-19 18/06/2020 Grace Ren As COVID-19 puts the world collectively on pause, essential programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are also feeling the cut. NTDs are estimated to impact up to 1.3 billion people around the world, mostly prevalent in poor, marginalized communities with low access to healthcare. “One of the things that’s been severely affected is our neglected […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
As More Go Hungry & Malnutrition Persists, Achieving Zero Hunger By 2030 In Doubt, UN Report Warns 13/07/2020 Press release Rome, Italy – More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, and countries around the world continue to struggle with multiple forms of malnutrition. The latest edition of the State of Food […] Continue reading -> Independent Panel To Evaluate Global COVID-19 Pandemic Response, Including WHO’s Actions 09/07/2020 Editorial team An independent evaluation of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, including steps taken by the World Health Organization, will be led by former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark and former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The former world leaders will co-chair and Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR), the […] Continue reading -> Fateful International Energy Agency Meeting Could Set Course For Climate Friendly COVID-19 Recovery… Or Not 01/07/2020 Editorial team A landmark meeting hosted next week by the International Energy Agency (IEA) will bring together major powers to debate the key actions for a climate-friendly COVID-19 recovery in an online forum open to public viewing. The IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit will be live-streamed July 9th, and bring together the world’s largest economies and developing […] Continue reading -> Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promising Early Results; Induces Immune Response In Healthy Volunteers 01/07/2020 Grace Ren A COVID-19 vaccine candidate under development by pharma giant Pfizer and biotech firm BioNTech showed promise in interim results released Wednesday. The vaccine candidate, BNT162b1, was able to induce the formation of antibodies that neutralized SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in all participants who received doses between 10ug to 30ug, according to a report […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Will Send Scoping Mission To China To Investigate COVID-19 Origins 30/06/2020 Editorial team The World Health Organization will be sending a mission to China on 6 July to investigate the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus subtly announced at a Monday press briefing. The mission aims to fulfill decisions made in a unanimously passed World Health Assembly resolution in late […] Continue reading -> Emer Cooke Nominated As New European Medicines Agency Executive Director 25/06/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay High-level WHO official Emer Cooke has been nominated as the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the critical regulatory body for European health product approvals. Cooke, an Irish national with 30 years’ experience in international regulatory affairs, is currently the Director of the WHO’s Regulation and Prequalification Department since 2016. In this role, she […] Continue reading -> UN Economic Commission For Africa Calls For A ‘Green’ COVID-19 Recovery; Joining Other Agencies 24/06/2020 Editorial team Africa must tackle both the climate and coronavirus crises at the same time, according to a new paper published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), joining other regional agencies such as the European Commission and the World Health Organization in calling for a “green recovery” from COVID-19. The paper, Climate Change and Development […] Continue reading -> Increase In Forced Displacement Raises Pandemic Fears About Vulnerable Refugee Populations 19/06/2020 Grace Ren As the world hit a sober new milestone of reporting more than 150,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, another slow burning crisis has also reached new heights. There are now nearly 80 million refugees around the world, making more than 1% of the world’s population forcibly displaced by the end of 2019, according to […] Continue reading -> Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes On Pause Due To COVID-19 18/06/2020 Grace Ren As COVID-19 puts the world collectively on pause, essential programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are also feeling the cut. NTDs are estimated to impact up to 1.3 billion people around the world, mostly prevalent in poor, marginalized communities with low access to healthcare. “One of the things that’s been severely affected is our neglected […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Independent Panel To Evaluate Global COVID-19 Pandemic Response, Including WHO’s Actions 09/07/2020 Editorial team An independent evaluation of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, including steps taken by the World Health Organization, will be led by former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark and former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The former world leaders will co-chair and Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR), the […] Continue reading -> Fateful International Energy Agency Meeting Could Set Course For Climate Friendly COVID-19 Recovery… Or Not 01/07/2020 Editorial team A landmark meeting hosted next week by the International Energy Agency (IEA) will bring together major powers to debate the key actions for a climate-friendly COVID-19 recovery in an online forum open to public viewing. The IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit will be live-streamed July 9th, and bring together the world’s largest economies and developing […] Continue reading -> Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promising Early Results; Induces Immune Response In Healthy Volunteers 01/07/2020 Grace Ren A COVID-19 vaccine candidate under development by pharma giant Pfizer and biotech firm BioNTech showed promise in interim results released Wednesday. The vaccine candidate, BNT162b1, was able to induce the formation of antibodies that neutralized SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in all participants who received doses between 10ug to 30ug, according to a report […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Will Send Scoping Mission To China To Investigate COVID-19 Origins 30/06/2020 Editorial team The World Health Organization will be sending a mission to China on 6 July to investigate the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus subtly announced at a Monday press briefing. The mission aims to fulfill decisions made in a unanimously passed World Health Assembly resolution in late […] Continue reading -> Emer Cooke Nominated As New European Medicines Agency Executive Director 25/06/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay High-level WHO official Emer Cooke has been nominated as the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the critical regulatory body for European health product approvals. Cooke, an Irish national with 30 years’ experience in international regulatory affairs, is currently the Director of the WHO’s Regulation and Prequalification Department since 2016. In this role, she […] Continue reading -> UN Economic Commission For Africa Calls For A ‘Green’ COVID-19 Recovery; Joining Other Agencies 24/06/2020 Editorial team Africa must tackle both the climate and coronavirus crises at the same time, according to a new paper published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), joining other regional agencies such as the European Commission and the World Health Organization in calling for a “green recovery” from COVID-19. The paper, Climate Change and Development […] Continue reading -> Increase In Forced Displacement Raises Pandemic Fears About Vulnerable Refugee Populations 19/06/2020 Grace Ren As the world hit a sober new milestone of reporting more than 150,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, another slow burning crisis has also reached new heights. There are now nearly 80 million refugees around the world, making more than 1% of the world’s population forcibly displaced by the end of 2019, according to […] Continue reading -> Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes On Pause Due To COVID-19 18/06/2020 Grace Ren As COVID-19 puts the world collectively on pause, essential programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are also feeling the cut. NTDs are estimated to impact up to 1.3 billion people around the world, mostly prevalent in poor, marginalized communities with low access to healthcare. “One of the things that’s been severely affected is our neglected […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Fateful International Energy Agency Meeting Could Set Course For Climate Friendly COVID-19 Recovery… Or Not 01/07/2020 Editorial team A landmark meeting hosted next week by the International Energy Agency (IEA) will bring together major powers to debate the key actions for a climate-friendly COVID-19 recovery in an online forum open to public viewing. The IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit will be live-streamed July 9th, and bring together the world’s largest economies and developing […] Continue reading -> Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promising Early Results; Induces Immune Response In Healthy Volunteers 01/07/2020 Grace Ren A COVID-19 vaccine candidate under development by pharma giant Pfizer and biotech firm BioNTech showed promise in interim results released Wednesday. The vaccine candidate, BNT162b1, was able to induce the formation of antibodies that neutralized SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in all participants who received doses between 10ug to 30ug, according to a report […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Will Send Scoping Mission To China To Investigate COVID-19 Origins 30/06/2020 Editorial team The World Health Organization will be sending a mission to China on 6 July to investigate the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus subtly announced at a Monday press briefing. The mission aims to fulfill decisions made in a unanimously passed World Health Assembly resolution in late […] Continue reading -> Emer Cooke Nominated As New European Medicines Agency Executive Director 25/06/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay High-level WHO official Emer Cooke has been nominated as the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the critical regulatory body for European health product approvals. Cooke, an Irish national with 30 years’ experience in international regulatory affairs, is currently the Director of the WHO’s Regulation and Prequalification Department since 2016. In this role, she […] Continue reading -> UN Economic Commission For Africa Calls For A ‘Green’ COVID-19 Recovery; Joining Other Agencies 24/06/2020 Editorial team Africa must tackle both the climate and coronavirus crises at the same time, according to a new paper published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), joining other regional agencies such as the European Commission and the World Health Organization in calling for a “green recovery” from COVID-19. The paper, Climate Change and Development […] Continue reading -> Increase In Forced Displacement Raises Pandemic Fears About Vulnerable Refugee Populations 19/06/2020 Grace Ren As the world hit a sober new milestone of reporting more than 150,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, another slow burning crisis has also reached new heights. There are now nearly 80 million refugees around the world, making more than 1% of the world’s population forcibly displaced by the end of 2019, according to […] Continue reading -> Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes On Pause Due To COVID-19 18/06/2020 Grace Ren As COVID-19 puts the world collectively on pause, essential programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are also feeling the cut. NTDs are estimated to impact up to 1.3 billion people around the world, mostly prevalent in poor, marginalized communities with low access to healthcare. “One of the things that’s been severely affected is our neglected […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promising Early Results; Induces Immune Response In Healthy Volunteers 01/07/2020 Grace Ren A COVID-19 vaccine candidate under development by pharma giant Pfizer and biotech firm BioNTech showed promise in interim results released Wednesday. The vaccine candidate, BNT162b1, was able to induce the formation of antibodies that neutralized SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in all participants who received doses between 10ug to 30ug, according to a report […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Will Send Scoping Mission To China To Investigate COVID-19 Origins 30/06/2020 Editorial team The World Health Organization will be sending a mission to China on 6 July to investigate the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus subtly announced at a Monday press briefing. The mission aims to fulfill decisions made in a unanimously passed World Health Assembly resolution in late […] Continue reading -> Emer Cooke Nominated As New European Medicines Agency Executive Director 25/06/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay High-level WHO official Emer Cooke has been nominated as the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the critical regulatory body for European health product approvals. Cooke, an Irish national with 30 years’ experience in international regulatory affairs, is currently the Director of the WHO’s Regulation and Prequalification Department since 2016. In this role, she […] Continue reading -> UN Economic Commission For Africa Calls For A ‘Green’ COVID-19 Recovery; Joining Other Agencies 24/06/2020 Editorial team Africa must tackle both the climate and coronavirus crises at the same time, according to a new paper published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), joining other regional agencies such as the European Commission and the World Health Organization in calling for a “green recovery” from COVID-19. The paper, Climate Change and Development […] Continue reading -> Increase In Forced Displacement Raises Pandemic Fears About Vulnerable Refugee Populations 19/06/2020 Grace Ren As the world hit a sober new milestone of reporting more than 150,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, another slow burning crisis has also reached new heights. There are now nearly 80 million refugees around the world, making more than 1% of the world’s population forcibly displaced by the end of 2019, according to […] Continue reading -> Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes On Pause Due To COVID-19 18/06/2020 Grace Ren As COVID-19 puts the world collectively on pause, essential programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are also feeling the cut. NTDs are estimated to impact up to 1.3 billion people around the world, mostly prevalent in poor, marginalized communities with low access to healthcare. “One of the things that’s been severely affected is our neglected […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
World Health Organization Will Send Scoping Mission To China To Investigate COVID-19 Origins 30/06/2020 Editorial team The World Health Organization will be sending a mission to China on 6 July to investigate the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus subtly announced at a Monday press briefing. The mission aims to fulfill decisions made in a unanimously passed World Health Assembly resolution in late […] Continue reading -> Emer Cooke Nominated As New European Medicines Agency Executive Director 25/06/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay High-level WHO official Emer Cooke has been nominated as the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the critical regulatory body for European health product approvals. Cooke, an Irish national with 30 years’ experience in international regulatory affairs, is currently the Director of the WHO’s Regulation and Prequalification Department since 2016. In this role, she […] Continue reading -> UN Economic Commission For Africa Calls For A ‘Green’ COVID-19 Recovery; Joining Other Agencies 24/06/2020 Editorial team Africa must tackle both the climate and coronavirus crises at the same time, according to a new paper published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), joining other regional agencies such as the European Commission and the World Health Organization in calling for a “green recovery” from COVID-19. The paper, Climate Change and Development […] Continue reading -> Increase In Forced Displacement Raises Pandemic Fears About Vulnerable Refugee Populations 19/06/2020 Grace Ren As the world hit a sober new milestone of reporting more than 150,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, another slow burning crisis has also reached new heights. There are now nearly 80 million refugees around the world, making more than 1% of the world’s population forcibly displaced by the end of 2019, according to […] Continue reading -> Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes On Pause Due To COVID-19 18/06/2020 Grace Ren As COVID-19 puts the world collectively on pause, essential programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are also feeling the cut. NTDs are estimated to impact up to 1.3 billion people around the world, mostly prevalent in poor, marginalized communities with low access to healthcare. “One of the things that’s been severely affected is our neglected […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Emer Cooke Nominated As New European Medicines Agency Executive Director 25/06/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay High-level WHO official Emer Cooke has been nominated as the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the critical regulatory body for European health product approvals. Cooke, an Irish national with 30 years’ experience in international regulatory affairs, is currently the Director of the WHO’s Regulation and Prequalification Department since 2016. In this role, she […] Continue reading -> UN Economic Commission For Africa Calls For A ‘Green’ COVID-19 Recovery; Joining Other Agencies 24/06/2020 Editorial team Africa must tackle both the climate and coronavirus crises at the same time, according to a new paper published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), joining other regional agencies such as the European Commission and the World Health Organization in calling for a “green recovery” from COVID-19. The paper, Climate Change and Development […] Continue reading -> Increase In Forced Displacement Raises Pandemic Fears About Vulnerable Refugee Populations 19/06/2020 Grace Ren As the world hit a sober new milestone of reporting more than 150,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, another slow burning crisis has also reached new heights. There are now nearly 80 million refugees around the world, making more than 1% of the world’s population forcibly displaced by the end of 2019, according to […] Continue reading -> Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes On Pause Due To COVID-19 18/06/2020 Grace Ren As COVID-19 puts the world collectively on pause, essential programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are also feeling the cut. NTDs are estimated to impact up to 1.3 billion people around the world, mostly prevalent in poor, marginalized communities with low access to healthcare. “One of the things that’s been severely affected is our neglected […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
UN Economic Commission For Africa Calls For A ‘Green’ COVID-19 Recovery; Joining Other Agencies 24/06/2020 Editorial team Africa must tackle both the climate and coronavirus crises at the same time, according to a new paper published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), joining other regional agencies such as the European Commission and the World Health Organization in calling for a “green recovery” from COVID-19. The paper, Climate Change and Development […] Continue reading -> Increase In Forced Displacement Raises Pandemic Fears About Vulnerable Refugee Populations 19/06/2020 Grace Ren As the world hit a sober new milestone of reporting more than 150,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, another slow burning crisis has also reached new heights. There are now nearly 80 million refugees around the world, making more than 1% of the world’s population forcibly displaced by the end of 2019, according to […] Continue reading -> Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes On Pause Due To COVID-19 18/06/2020 Grace Ren As COVID-19 puts the world collectively on pause, essential programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are also feeling the cut. NTDs are estimated to impact up to 1.3 billion people around the world, mostly prevalent in poor, marginalized communities with low access to healthcare. “One of the things that’s been severely affected is our neglected […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Increase In Forced Displacement Raises Pandemic Fears About Vulnerable Refugee Populations 19/06/2020 Grace Ren As the world hit a sober new milestone of reporting more than 150,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, another slow burning crisis has also reached new heights. There are now nearly 80 million refugees around the world, making more than 1% of the world’s population forcibly displaced by the end of 2019, according to […] Continue reading -> Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes On Pause Due To COVID-19 18/06/2020 Grace Ren As COVID-19 puts the world collectively on pause, essential programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are also feeling the cut. NTDs are estimated to impact up to 1.3 billion people around the world, mostly prevalent in poor, marginalized communities with low access to healthcare. “One of the things that’s been severely affected is our neglected […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes On Pause Due To COVID-19 18/06/2020 Grace Ren As COVID-19 puts the world collectively on pause, essential programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are also feeling the cut. NTDs are estimated to impact up to 1.3 billion people around the world, mostly prevalent in poor, marginalized communities with low access to healthcare. “One of the things that’s been severely affected is our neglected […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts