Eliminating Cervical Cancer is a Global Health Equity Challenge 01/04/2026 Caroline Bwanali-Mussa, Haileyesus Getahun, Antje Leendertse & Leslie Ramsammy Cervical cancer should no longer be killing women. It is one of the few cancers that we already know how to prevent, detect early, and treat effectively. Yet it remains the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, causing around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year. The tragedy is not just the scale […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Talks: Europe is Blocking Health Equity – And It Knows It 23/03/2026 Guilherme Faviero & Nithin Ramakrishnan Final talks on the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) system, the last outstanding piece of the Pandemic Agreement, are being held in Geneva this week. The Pandemic Agreement, being negotiated in Geneva, emerged to address the unacceptable inequities that defined the COVID-19 global health disaster. During this pandemic, delayed and inequitable access to vaccines may […] Continue reading -> Africa’s Health Systems Must Confront Climate Change as a Critical Health Crisis 19/03/2026 Anthony Ngugi Climate resilience is a key theme of the World Health Summit’s regional meeting in Nairobi 27-29 April, which is bringing leaders together to address the structural realities of health security across the continent and advance a transformative reform agenda. In some parts of Africa, like Ghana, December marked the beginning of the Harmattan season characterized […] Continue reading -> How Public Health Lost the Narrative – and How It Can Win It Back 12/03/2026 Steve Hamill Public health ended 2025 in one of its weakest positions in living memory – not because of a surge in disease, but because of a collapse in political, financial, and cultural support. Vaccination policies long considered settled science are being reversed, and industry-backed “junk science” is shaping legislation to derail proven nutrition policies. Even as […] Continue reading -> Global Health Infrastructure is Changing. Why Getting it Right Matters 11/03/2026 Marcus Low Funding cuts over the past year have created a crisis for multilateral health institutions. Which institutions emerge from this crisis, and in what form, will have real consequences for the health of people in countries like South Africa. In recent weeks, there has been a glut of articles from global health big-hitters, all concerned with […] Continue reading -> As the Aid Model Collapses, Africa is Rewriting Its Health Future through the ‘African Leadership Meeting’ 11/02/2026 Amma A Twum-Amoah On the eve of the African Union’s annual meeting, leaders need to secure their countries by increasing spending on health. The year 2025 will go down in history as the moment the traditional model of global health financing ruptured. Sudden, sweeping aid cuts exposed a reality African policymakers have warned about for decades: while foreign […] Continue reading -> WHO Talks About Violence – But Not Firearms 10/02/2026 Dean Peacock & Stephen Hargarten For nearly three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised violence as a major public health concern. Since the landmark World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution of 1996, violence has been framed not only as a cause of injury and death, but as a driver of long-term physical, psychological, and social harm, as well as […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Agreement on Hold: Can Countries Bridge the Divide on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing? 27/01/2026 Daniela Morich Only 12 more negotiating days remain until WHO member states hit the May 2026 deadline for an agreement on a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, as part of the new Pandemic Agreement adopted at last year’s World Health Assembly (WHA). The gap between developed and developing blocs of countries remains large, and progress […] Continue reading -> America First is Not America Absent 23/01/2026 Christina Liu One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President reflects on how presence, governance, and leadership shape influence in global health. In January 2024, I stood before the WHO’s Executive Board, chaired by Qatar’s Minister of Health, Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari. I […] Continue reading -> Not All Diseases Are Equal: How a World Economic Forum Report quietly reshaped the NCD agenda 22/01/2026 Habib Benzian The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on acting early on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) signals more than urgency. It signals a shift in what counts. Beneath familiar calls for earlier action sits a quieter move: a re-ordering of NCD priorities themselves. Some diseases now sit firmly at the centre of the agenda. Others, no less […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Pandemic Talks: Europe is Blocking Health Equity – And It Knows It 23/03/2026 Guilherme Faviero & Nithin Ramakrishnan Final talks on the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) system, the last outstanding piece of the Pandemic Agreement, are being held in Geneva this week. The Pandemic Agreement, being negotiated in Geneva, emerged to address the unacceptable inequities that defined the COVID-19 global health disaster. During this pandemic, delayed and inequitable access to vaccines may […] Continue reading -> Africa’s Health Systems Must Confront Climate Change as a Critical Health Crisis 19/03/2026 Anthony Ngugi Climate resilience is a key theme of the World Health Summit’s regional meeting in Nairobi 27-29 April, which is bringing leaders together to address the structural realities of health security across the continent and advance a transformative reform agenda. In some parts of Africa, like Ghana, December marked the beginning of the Harmattan season characterized […] Continue reading -> How Public Health Lost the Narrative – and How It Can Win It Back 12/03/2026 Steve Hamill Public health ended 2025 in one of its weakest positions in living memory – not because of a surge in disease, but because of a collapse in political, financial, and cultural support. Vaccination policies long considered settled science are being reversed, and industry-backed “junk science” is shaping legislation to derail proven nutrition policies. Even as […] Continue reading -> Global Health Infrastructure is Changing. Why Getting it Right Matters 11/03/2026 Marcus Low Funding cuts over the past year have created a crisis for multilateral health institutions. Which institutions emerge from this crisis, and in what form, will have real consequences for the health of people in countries like South Africa. In recent weeks, there has been a glut of articles from global health big-hitters, all concerned with […] Continue reading -> As the Aid Model Collapses, Africa is Rewriting Its Health Future through the ‘African Leadership Meeting’ 11/02/2026 Amma A Twum-Amoah On the eve of the African Union’s annual meeting, leaders need to secure their countries by increasing spending on health. The year 2025 will go down in history as the moment the traditional model of global health financing ruptured. Sudden, sweeping aid cuts exposed a reality African policymakers have warned about for decades: while foreign […] Continue reading -> WHO Talks About Violence – But Not Firearms 10/02/2026 Dean Peacock & Stephen Hargarten For nearly three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised violence as a major public health concern. Since the landmark World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution of 1996, violence has been framed not only as a cause of injury and death, but as a driver of long-term physical, psychological, and social harm, as well as […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Agreement on Hold: Can Countries Bridge the Divide on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing? 27/01/2026 Daniela Morich Only 12 more negotiating days remain until WHO member states hit the May 2026 deadline for an agreement on a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, as part of the new Pandemic Agreement adopted at last year’s World Health Assembly (WHA). The gap between developed and developing blocs of countries remains large, and progress […] Continue reading -> America First is Not America Absent 23/01/2026 Christina Liu One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President reflects on how presence, governance, and leadership shape influence in global health. In January 2024, I stood before the WHO’s Executive Board, chaired by Qatar’s Minister of Health, Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari. I […] Continue reading -> Not All Diseases Are Equal: How a World Economic Forum Report quietly reshaped the NCD agenda 22/01/2026 Habib Benzian The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on acting early on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) signals more than urgency. It signals a shift in what counts. Beneath familiar calls for earlier action sits a quieter move: a re-ordering of NCD priorities themselves. Some diseases now sit firmly at the centre of the agenda. Others, no less […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Africa’s Health Systems Must Confront Climate Change as a Critical Health Crisis 19/03/2026 Anthony Ngugi Climate resilience is a key theme of the World Health Summit’s regional meeting in Nairobi 27-29 April, which is bringing leaders together to address the structural realities of health security across the continent and advance a transformative reform agenda. In some parts of Africa, like Ghana, December marked the beginning of the Harmattan season characterized […] Continue reading -> How Public Health Lost the Narrative – and How It Can Win It Back 12/03/2026 Steve Hamill Public health ended 2025 in one of its weakest positions in living memory – not because of a surge in disease, but because of a collapse in political, financial, and cultural support. Vaccination policies long considered settled science are being reversed, and industry-backed “junk science” is shaping legislation to derail proven nutrition policies. Even as […] Continue reading -> Global Health Infrastructure is Changing. Why Getting it Right Matters 11/03/2026 Marcus Low Funding cuts over the past year have created a crisis for multilateral health institutions. Which institutions emerge from this crisis, and in what form, will have real consequences for the health of people in countries like South Africa. In recent weeks, there has been a glut of articles from global health big-hitters, all concerned with […] Continue reading -> As the Aid Model Collapses, Africa is Rewriting Its Health Future through the ‘African Leadership Meeting’ 11/02/2026 Amma A Twum-Amoah On the eve of the African Union’s annual meeting, leaders need to secure their countries by increasing spending on health. The year 2025 will go down in history as the moment the traditional model of global health financing ruptured. Sudden, sweeping aid cuts exposed a reality African policymakers have warned about for decades: while foreign […] Continue reading -> WHO Talks About Violence – But Not Firearms 10/02/2026 Dean Peacock & Stephen Hargarten For nearly three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised violence as a major public health concern. Since the landmark World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution of 1996, violence has been framed not only as a cause of injury and death, but as a driver of long-term physical, psychological, and social harm, as well as […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Agreement on Hold: Can Countries Bridge the Divide on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing? 27/01/2026 Daniela Morich Only 12 more negotiating days remain until WHO member states hit the May 2026 deadline for an agreement on a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, as part of the new Pandemic Agreement adopted at last year’s World Health Assembly (WHA). The gap between developed and developing blocs of countries remains large, and progress […] Continue reading -> America First is Not America Absent 23/01/2026 Christina Liu One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President reflects on how presence, governance, and leadership shape influence in global health. In January 2024, I stood before the WHO’s Executive Board, chaired by Qatar’s Minister of Health, Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari. I […] Continue reading -> Not All Diseases Are Equal: How a World Economic Forum Report quietly reshaped the NCD agenda 22/01/2026 Habib Benzian The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on acting early on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) signals more than urgency. It signals a shift in what counts. Beneath familiar calls for earlier action sits a quieter move: a re-ordering of NCD priorities themselves. Some diseases now sit firmly at the centre of the agenda. Others, no less […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
How Public Health Lost the Narrative – and How It Can Win It Back 12/03/2026 Steve Hamill Public health ended 2025 in one of its weakest positions in living memory – not because of a surge in disease, but because of a collapse in political, financial, and cultural support. Vaccination policies long considered settled science are being reversed, and industry-backed “junk science” is shaping legislation to derail proven nutrition policies. Even as […] Continue reading -> Global Health Infrastructure is Changing. Why Getting it Right Matters 11/03/2026 Marcus Low Funding cuts over the past year have created a crisis for multilateral health institutions. Which institutions emerge from this crisis, and in what form, will have real consequences for the health of people in countries like South Africa. In recent weeks, there has been a glut of articles from global health big-hitters, all concerned with […] Continue reading -> As the Aid Model Collapses, Africa is Rewriting Its Health Future through the ‘African Leadership Meeting’ 11/02/2026 Amma A Twum-Amoah On the eve of the African Union’s annual meeting, leaders need to secure their countries by increasing spending on health. The year 2025 will go down in history as the moment the traditional model of global health financing ruptured. Sudden, sweeping aid cuts exposed a reality African policymakers have warned about for decades: while foreign […] Continue reading -> WHO Talks About Violence – But Not Firearms 10/02/2026 Dean Peacock & Stephen Hargarten For nearly three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised violence as a major public health concern. Since the landmark World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution of 1996, violence has been framed not only as a cause of injury and death, but as a driver of long-term physical, psychological, and social harm, as well as […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Agreement on Hold: Can Countries Bridge the Divide on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing? 27/01/2026 Daniela Morich Only 12 more negotiating days remain until WHO member states hit the May 2026 deadline for an agreement on a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, as part of the new Pandemic Agreement adopted at last year’s World Health Assembly (WHA). The gap between developed and developing blocs of countries remains large, and progress […] Continue reading -> America First is Not America Absent 23/01/2026 Christina Liu One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President reflects on how presence, governance, and leadership shape influence in global health. In January 2024, I stood before the WHO’s Executive Board, chaired by Qatar’s Minister of Health, Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari. I […] Continue reading -> Not All Diseases Are Equal: How a World Economic Forum Report quietly reshaped the NCD agenda 22/01/2026 Habib Benzian The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on acting early on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) signals more than urgency. It signals a shift in what counts. Beneath familiar calls for earlier action sits a quieter move: a re-ordering of NCD priorities themselves. Some diseases now sit firmly at the centre of the agenda. Others, no less […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Global Health Infrastructure is Changing. Why Getting it Right Matters 11/03/2026 Marcus Low Funding cuts over the past year have created a crisis for multilateral health institutions. Which institutions emerge from this crisis, and in what form, will have real consequences for the health of people in countries like South Africa. In recent weeks, there has been a glut of articles from global health big-hitters, all concerned with […] Continue reading -> As the Aid Model Collapses, Africa is Rewriting Its Health Future through the ‘African Leadership Meeting’ 11/02/2026 Amma A Twum-Amoah On the eve of the African Union’s annual meeting, leaders need to secure their countries by increasing spending on health. The year 2025 will go down in history as the moment the traditional model of global health financing ruptured. Sudden, sweeping aid cuts exposed a reality African policymakers have warned about for decades: while foreign […] Continue reading -> WHO Talks About Violence – But Not Firearms 10/02/2026 Dean Peacock & Stephen Hargarten For nearly three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised violence as a major public health concern. Since the landmark World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution of 1996, violence has been framed not only as a cause of injury and death, but as a driver of long-term physical, psychological, and social harm, as well as […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Agreement on Hold: Can Countries Bridge the Divide on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing? 27/01/2026 Daniela Morich Only 12 more negotiating days remain until WHO member states hit the May 2026 deadline for an agreement on a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, as part of the new Pandemic Agreement adopted at last year’s World Health Assembly (WHA). The gap between developed and developing blocs of countries remains large, and progress […] Continue reading -> America First is Not America Absent 23/01/2026 Christina Liu One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President reflects on how presence, governance, and leadership shape influence in global health. In January 2024, I stood before the WHO’s Executive Board, chaired by Qatar’s Minister of Health, Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari. I […] Continue reading -> Not All Diseases Are Equal: How a World Economic Forum Report quietly reshaped the NCD agenda 22/01/2026 Habib Benzian The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on acting early on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) signals more than urgency. It signals a shift in what counts. Beneath familiar calls for earlier action sits a quieter move: a re-ordering of NCD priorities themselves. Some diseases now sit firmly at the centre of the agenda. Others, no less […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
As the Aid Model Collapses, Africa is Rewriting Its Health Future through the ‘African Leadership Meeting’ 11/02/2026 Amma A Twum-Amoah On the eve of the African Union’s annual meeting, leaders need to secure their countries by increasing spending on health. The year 2025 will go down in history as the moment the traditional model of global health financing ruptured. Sudden, sweeping aid cuts exposed a reality African policymakers have warned about for decades: while foreign […] Continue reading -> WHO Talks About Violence – But Not Firearms 10/02/2026 Dean Peacock & Stephen Hargarten For nearly three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised violence as a major public health concern. Since the landmark World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution of 1996, violence has been framed not only as a cause of injury and death, but as a driver of long-term physical, psychological, and social harm, as well as […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Agreement on Hold: Can Countries Bridge the Divide on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing? 27/01/2026 Daniela Morich Only 12 more negotiating days remain until WHO member states hit the May 2026 deadline for an agreement on a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, as part of the new Pandemic Agreement adopted at last year’s World Health Assembly (WHA). The gap between developed and developing blocs of countries remains large, and progress […] Continue reading -> America First is Not America Absent 23/01/2026 Christina Liu One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President reflects on how presence, governance, and leadership shape influence in global health. In January 2024, I stood before the WHO’s Executive Board, chaired by Qatar’s Minister of Health, Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari. I […] Continue reading -> Not All Diseases Are Equal: How a World Economic Forum Report quietly reshaped the NCD agenda 22/01/2026 Habib Benzian The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on acting early on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) signals more than urgency. It signals a shift in what counts. Beneath familiar calls for earlier action sits a quieter move: a re-ordering of NCD priorities themselves. Some diseases now sit firmly at the centre of the agenda. Others, no less […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Talks About Violence – But Not Firearms 10/02/2026 Dean Peacock & Stephen Hargarten For nearly three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised violence as a major public health concern. Since the landmark World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution of 1996, violence has been framed not only as a cause of injury and death, but as a driver of long-term physical, psychological, and social harm, as well as […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Agreement on Hold: Can Countries Bridge the Divide on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing? 27/01/2026 Daniela Morich Only 12 more negotiating days remain until WHO member states hit the May 2026 deadline for an agreement on a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, as part of the new Pandemic Agreement adopted at last year’s World Health Assembly (WHA). The gap between developed and developing blocs of countries remains large, and progress […] Continue reading -> America First is Not America Absent 23/01/2026 Christina Liu One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President reflects on how presence, governance, and leadership shape influence in global health. In January 2024, I stood before the WHO’s Executive Board, chaired by Qatar’s Minister of Health, Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari. I […] Continue reading -> Not All Diseases Are Equal: How a World Economic Forum Report quietly reshaped the NCD agenda 22/01/2026 Habib Benzian The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on acting early on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) signals more than urgency. It signals a shift in what counts. Beneath familiar calls for earlier action sits a quieter move: a re-ordering of NCD priorities themselves. Some diseases now sit firmly at the centre of the agenda. Others, no less […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Pandemic Agreement on Hold: Can Countries Bridge the Divide on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing? 27/01/2026 Daniela Morich Only 12 more negotiating days remain until WHO member states hit the May 2026 deadline for an agreement on a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, as part of the new Pandemic Agreement adopted at last year’s World Health Assembly (WHA). The gap between developed and developing blocs of countries remains large, and progress […] Continue reading -> America First is Not America Absent 23/01/2026 Christina Liu One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President reflects on how presence, governance, and leadership shape influence in global health. In January 2024, I stood before the WHO’s Executive Board, chaired by Qatar’s Minister of Health, Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari. I […] Continue reading -> Not All Diseases Are Equal: How a World Economic Forum Report quietly reshaped the NCD agenda 22/01/2026 Habib Benzian The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on acting early on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) signals more than urgency. It signals a shift in what counts. Beneath familiar calls for earlier action sits a quieter move: a re-ordering of NCD priorities themselves. Some diseases now sit firmly at the centre of the agenda. Others, no less […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
America First is Not America Absent 23/01/2026 Christina Liu One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President reflects on how presence, governance, and leadership shape influence in global health. In January 2024, I stood before the WHO’s Executive Board, chaired by Qatar’s Minister of Health, Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari. I […] Continue reading -> Not All Diseases Are Equal: How a World Economic Forum Report quietly reshaped the NCD agenda 22/01/2026 Habib Benzian The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on acting early on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) signals more than urgency. It signals a shift in what counts. Beneath familiar calls for earlier action sits a quieter move: a re-ordering of NCD priorities themselves. Some diseases now sit firmly at the centre of the agenda. Others, no less […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Not All Diseases Are Equal: How a World Economic Forum Report quietly reshaped the NCD agenda 22/01/2026 Habib Benzian The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on acting early on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) signals more than urgency. It signals a shift in what counts. Beneath familiar calls for earlier action sits a quieter move: a re-ordering of NCD priorities themselves. Some diseases now sit firmly at the centre of the agenda. Others, no less […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts