After Ebola Scandal: Rooting Out Sexual Misconduct in WHO 31/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan A special unit to address sexual ‘misconduct’, a fund to support survivors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and training for all staff are some of the steps taken by the World Health Organization (WHO) to rid itself of exploitative behaviour. This follows the scandal that played out during the Ebola outbreaks in the […] Continue reading -> WHO Pressured to Shift Spending from Geneva Headquarters to Countries 31/01/2023 John Heilprin One by one, countries demanded the World Health Organization (WHO) spend more on their countries’ needs while debating a proposal to shore up the U.N. health agency’s finances through a replenishment fund, that would be filled by periodic donor drives. The discussion, which centred around demands to shift spending from WHO’s Geneva headquarters to budget-strapped […] Continue reading -> Tedros’ 10-Point Proposal for Reforming Global Emergency Response Gets Mixed Review 30/01/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A new 10-point proposal by the World Health Organization’s Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for improving preparedness and response to health emergencies received mixed reviews from WHO member states in Monday’s opening session of this week’s Executive Board (EB) meeting, the agency’s 34-member governing body. It was the first substantive issue to be tackled […] Continue reading -> Conflicts and Health Emergencies Overshadow WHO Successes as Executive Board Gets Underway 30/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Supporting 100 million tobacco users to quit, increasing exclusive breastfeeding for babies under six months to 48% globally, and helping 63 countries to build climate-resilient health systems are some of the recent successes of the World Health Organization (WHO), said Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Addressing the opening of the WHO’s executive board (EB) […] Continue reading -> Influential WHO Committee Greenlights Initiative for ‘Replenishment Fund’ to Bolster Finance 30/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan An influential sub-committee of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Executive Board (EB) has greenlighted a proposal by the cash-strapped global body’s Secretariat to seek additional funds via a replenishment fund, that would be filled by voluntary donations from both member states and philanthropies recruited at high-profile events. In its report published on Monday just as […] Continue reading -> It’s Still a Pandemic: WHO Advisers and Chief Concur 30/01/2023 John Heilprin The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic and Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus both agree: the event continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The UN health agency agreed on Monday that ending the state of international public health emergency over the coronavirus would be premature even […] Continue reading -> WHO Provides New Medicines List, Policy Recommendations for Nuclear Emergency 27/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday released an updated list of medicines that should be stockpiled in the event of a radiological and nuclear emergency, along with new policy advice in the event of such an incident. “Preparedness for radiation emergencies is consistently reported as the weakest area of preparedness in many countries,” the […] Continue reading -> Governing Pandemics Snapshot 27/01/2023 Gian Luca Burci, Suerie Moon, Daniela Morich, Adam Strobeyko & Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour A briefing series on the status of moves to reform the global system of pandemic preparedness and response launches today, just ahead of the WHO Executive Board review of progress next week. Looking back at 2022 and forward into 2023, this series by the Global Health Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute, published in collaboration […] Continue reading -> Africans Struggled to Get COVID-19 Tests – What Must Change Before the Next Pandemic? 26/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most Africans could not get a COVID-19 test unless they were hospitalised or could afford to pay a private laboratory for a pricey test – yet rapid tests were being dished out free in the US and Europe. High prices, slow regulatory approval, and outdated ideas about self-testing were some of the barriers that prevented […] Continue reading -> African Health Authorities Juggle Concurrent Outbreak Responses 26/01/2023 Paul Adepoju The first three weeks of 2023 were encouraging for the African continent’s fight against COVID-19. With cases down 97% year-on-year since the same period in 2022, hospitalizations for severe illness and deaths from the virus decreased significantly, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office said. “For the first time since COVID-19 shook our lives, January […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Pressured to Shift Spending from Geneva Headquarters to Countries 31/01/2023 John Heilprin One by one, countries demanded the World Health Organization (WHO) spend more on their countries’ needs while debating a proposal to shore up the U.N. health agency’s finances through a replenishment fund, that would be filled by periodic donor drives. The discussion, which centred around demands to shift spending from WHO’s Geneva headquarters to budget-strapped […] Continue reading -> Tedros’ 10-Point Proposal for Reforming Global Emergency Response Gets Mixed Review 30/01/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A new 10-point proposal by the World Health Organization’s Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for improving preparedness and response to health emergencies received mixed reviews from WHO member states in Monday’s opening session of this week’s Executive Board (EB) meeting, the agency’s 34-member governing body. It was the first substantive issue to be tackled […] Continue reading -> Conflicts and Health Emergencies Overshadow WHO Successes as Executive Board Gets Underway 30/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Supporting 100 million tobacco users to quit, increasing exclusive breastfeeding for babies under six months to 48% globally, and helping 63 countries to build climate-resilient health systems are some of the recent successes of the World Health Organization (WHO), said Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Addressing the opening of the WHO’s executive board (EB) […] Continue reading -> Influential WHO Committee Greenlights Initiative for ‘Replenishment Fund’ to Bolster Finance 30/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan An influential sub-committee of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Executive Board (EB) has greenlighted a proposal by the cash-strapped global body’s Secretariat to seek additional funds via a replenishment fund, that would be filled by voluntary donations from both member states and philanthropies recruited at high-profile events. In its report published on Monday just as […] Continue reading -> It’s Still a Pandemic: WHO Advisers and Chief Concur 30/01/2023 John Heilprin The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic and Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus both agree: the event continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The UN health agency agreed on Monday that ending the state of international public health emergency over the coronavirus would be premature even […] Continue reading -> WHO Provides New Medicines List, Policy Recommendations for Nuclear Emergency 27/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday released an updated list of medicines that should be stockpiled in the event of a radiological and nuclear emergency, along with new policy advice in the event of such an incident. “Preparedness for radiation emergencies is consistently reported as the weakest area of preparedness in many countries,” the […] Continue reading -> Governing Pandemics Snapshot 27/01/2023 Gian Luca Burci, Suerie Moon, Daniela Morich, Adam Strobeyko & Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour A briefing series on the status of moves to reform the global system of pandemic preparedness and response launches today, just ahead of the WHO Executive Board review of progress next week. Looking back at 2022 and forward into 2023, this series by the Global Health Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute, published in collaboration […] Continue reading -> Africans Struggled to Get COVID-19 Tests – What Must Change Before the Next Pandemic? 26/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most Africans could not get a COVID-19 test unless they were hospitalised or could afford to pay a private laboratory for a pricey test – yet rapid tests were being dished out free in the US and Europe. High prices, slow regulatory approval, and outdated ideas about self-testing were some of the barriers that prevented […] Continue reading -> African Health Authorities Juggle Concurrent Outbreak Responses 26/01/2023 Paul Adepoju The first three weeks of 2023 were encouraging for the African continent’s fight against COVID-19. With cases down 97% year-on-year since the same period in 2022, hospitalizations for severe illness and deaths from the virus decreased significantly, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office said. “For the first time since COVID-19 shook our lives, January […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Tedros’ 10-Point Proposal for Reforming Global Emergency Response Gets Mixed Review 30/01/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A new 10-point proposal by the World Health Organization’s Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for improving preparedness and response to health emergencies received mixed reviews from WHO member states in Monday’s opening session of this week’s Executive Board (EB) meeting, the agency’s 34-member governing body. It was the first substantive issue to be tackled […] Continue reading -> Conflicts and Health Emergencies Overshadow WHO Successes as Executive Board Gets Underway 30/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Supporting 100 million tobacco users to quit, increasing exclusive breastfeeding for babies under six months to 48% globally, and helping 63 countries to build climate-resilient health systems are some of the recent successes of the World Health Organization (WHO), said Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Addressing the opening of the WHO’s executive board (EB) […] Continue reading -> Influential WHO Committee Greenlights Initiative for ‘Replenishment Fund’ to Bolster Finance 30/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan An influential sub-committee of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Executive Board (EB) has greenlighted a proposal by the cash-strapped global body’s Secretariat to seek additional funds via a replenishment fund, that would be filled by voluntary donations from both member states and philanthropies recruited at high-profile events. In its report published on Monday just as […] Continue reading -> It’s Still a Pandemic: WHO Advisers and Chief Concur 30/01/2023 John Heilprin The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic and Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus both agree: the event continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The UN health agency agreed on Monday that ending the state of international public health emergency over the coronavirus would be premature even […] Continue reading -> WHO Provides New Medicines List, Policy Recommendations for Nuclear Emergency 27/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday released an updated list of medicines that should be stockpiled in the event of a radiological and nuclear emergency, along with new policy advice in the event of such an incident. “Preparedness for radiation emergencies is consistently reported as the weakest area of preparedness in many countries,” the […] Continue reading -> Governing Pandemics Snapshot 27/01/2023 Gian Luca Burci, Suerie Moon, Daniela Morich, Adam Strobeyko & Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour A briefing series on the status of moves to reform the global system of pandemic preparedness and response launches today, just ahead of the WHO Executive Board review of progress next week. Looking back at 2022 and forward into 2023, this series by the Global Health Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute, published in collaboration […] Continue reading -> Africans Struggled to Get COVID-19 Tests – What Must Change Before the Next Pandemic? 26/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most Africans could not get a COVID-19 test unless they were hospitalised or could afford to pay a private laboratory for a pricey test – yet rapid tests were being dished out free in the US and Europe. High prices, slow regulatory approval, and outdated ideas about self-testing were some of the barriers that prevented […] Continue reading -> African Health Authorities Juggle Concurrent Outbreak Responses 26/01/2023 Paul Adepoju The first three weeks of 2023 were encouraging for the African continent’s fight against COVID-19. With cases down 97% year-on-year since the same period in 2022, hospitalizations for severe illness and deaths from the virus decreased significantly, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office said. “For the first time since COVID-19 shook our lives, January […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Conflicts and Health Emergencies Overshadow WHO Successes as Executive Board Gets Underway 30/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Supporting 100 million tobacco users to quit, increasing exclusive breastfeeding for babies under six months to 48% globally, and helping 63 countries to build climate-resilient health systems are some of the recent successes of the World Health Organization (WHO), said Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Addressing the opening of the WHO’s executive board (EB) […] Continue reading -> Influential WHO Committee Greenlights Initiative for ‘Replenishment Fund’ to Bolster Finance 30/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan An influential sub-committee of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Executive Board (EB) has greenlighted a proposal by the cash-strapped global body’s Secretariat to seek additional funds via a replenishment fund, that would be filled by voluntary donations from both member states and philanthropies recruited at high-profile events. In its report published on Monday just as […] Continue reading -> It’s Still a Pandemic: WHO Advisers and Chief Concur 30/01/2023 John Heilprin The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic and Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus both agree: the event continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The UN health agency agreed on Monday that ending the state of international public health emergency over the coronavirus would be premature even […] Continue reading -> WHO Provides New Medicines List, Policy Recommendations for Nuclear Emergency 27/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday released an updated list of medicines that should be stockpiled in the event of a radiological and nuclear emergency, along with new policy advice in the event of such an incident. “Preparedness for radiation emergencies is consistently reported as the weakest area of preparedness in many countries,” the […] Continue reading -> Governing Pandemics Snapshot 27/01/2023 Gian Luca Burci, Suerie Moon, Daniela Morich, Adam Strobeyko & Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour A briefing series on the status of moves to reform the global system of pandemic preparedness and response launches today, just ahead of the WHO Executive Board review of progress next week. Looking back at 2022 and forward into 2023, this series by the Global Health Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute, published in collaboration […] Continue reading -> Africans Struggled to Get COVID-19 Tests – What Must Change Before the Next Pandemic? 26/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most Africans could not get a COVID-19 test unless they were hospitalised or could afford to pay a private laboratory for a pricey test – yet rapid tests were being dished out free in the US and Europe. High prices, slow regulatory approval, and outdated ideas about self-testing were some of the barriers that prevented […] Continue reading -> African Health Authorities Juggle Concurrent Outbreak Responses 26/01/2023 Paul Adepoju The first three weeks of 2023 were encouraging for the African continent’s fight against COVID-19. With cases down 97% year-on-year since the same period in 2022, hospitalizations for severe illness and deaths from the virus decreased significantly, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office said. “For the first time since COVID-19 shook our lives, January […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Influential WHO Committee Greenlights Initiative for ‘Replenishment Fund’ to Bolster Finance 30/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan An influential sub-committee of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Executive Board (EB) has greenlighted a proposal by the cash-strapped global body’s Secretariat to seek additional funds via a replenishment fund, that would be filled by voluntary donations from both member states and philanthropies recruited at high-profile events. In its report published on Monday just as […] Continue reading -> It’s Still a Pandemic: WHO Advisers and Chief Concur 30/01/2023 John Heilprin The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic and Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus both agree: the event continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The UN health agency agreed on Monday that ending the state of international public health emergency over the coronavirus would be premature even […] Continue reading -> WHO Provides New Medicines List, Policy Recommendations for Nuclear Emergency 27/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday released an updated list of medicines that should be stockpiled in the event of a radiological and nuclear emergency, along with new policy advice in the event of such an incident. “Preparedness for radiation emergencies is consistently reported as the weakest area of preparedness in many countries,” the […] Continue reading -> Governing Pandemics Snapshot 27/01/2023 Gian Luca Burci, Suerie Moon, Daniela Morich, Adam Strobeyko & Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour A briefing series on the status of moves to reform the global system of pandemic preparedness and response launches today, just ahead of the WHO Executive Board review of progress next week. Looking back at 2022 and forward into 2023, this series by the Global Health Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute, published in collaboration […] Continue reading -> Africans Struggled to Get COVID-19 Tests – What Must Change Before the Next Pandemic? 26/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most Africans could not get a COVID-19 test unless they were hospitalised or could afford to pay a private laboratory for a pricey test – yet rapid tests were being dished out free in the US and Europe. High prices, slow regulatory approval, and outdated ideas about self-testing were some of the barriers that prevented […] Continue reading -> African Health Authorities Juggle Concurrent Outbreak Responses 26/01/2023 Paul Adepoju The first three weeks of 2023 were encouraging for the African continent’s fight against COVID-19. With cases down 97% year-on-year since the same period in 2022, hospitalizations for severe illness and deaths from the virus decreased significantly, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office said. “For the first time since COVID-19 shook our lives, January […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
It’s Still a Pandemic: WHO Advisers and Chief Concur 30/01/2023 John Heilprin The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic and Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus both agree: the event continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The UN health agency agreed on Monday that ending the state of international public health emergency over the coronavirus would be premature even […] Continue reading -> WHO Provides New Medicines List, Policy Recommendations for Nuclear Emergency 27/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday released an updated list of medicines that should be stockpiled in the event of a radiological and nuclear emergency, along with new policy advice in the event of such an incident. “Preparedness for radiation emergencies is consistently reported as the weakest area of preparedness in many countries,” the […] Continue reading -> Governing Pandemics Snapshot 27/01/2023 Gian Luca Burci, Suerie Moon, Daniela Morich, Adam Strobeyko & Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour A briefing series on the status of moves to reform the global system of pandemic preparedness and response launches today, just ahead of the WHO Executive Board review of progress next week. Looking back at 2022 and forward into 2023, this series by the Global Health Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute, published in collaboration […] Continue reading -> Africans Struggled to Get COVID-19 Tests – What Must Change Before the Next Pandemic? 26/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most Africans could not get a COVID-19 test unless they were hospitalised or could afford to pay a private laboratory for a pricey test – yet rapid tests were being dished out free in the US and Europe. High prices, slow regulatory approval, and outdated ideas about self-testing were some of the barriers that prevented […] Continue reading -> African Health Authorities Juggle Concurrent Outbreak Responses 26/01/2023 Paul Adepoju The first three weeks of 2023 were encouraging for the African continent’s fight against COVID-19. With cases down 97% year-on-year since the same period in 2022, hospitalizations for severe illness and deaths from the virus decreased significantly, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office said. “For the first time since COVID-19 shook our lives, January […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Provides New Medicines List, Policy Recommendations for Nuclear Emergency 27/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday released an updated list of medicines that should be stockpiled in the event of a radiological and nuclear emergency, along with new policy advice in the event of such an incident. “Preparedness for radiation emergencies is consistently reported as the weakest area of preparedness in many countries,” the […] Continue reading -> Governing Pandemics Snapshot 27/01/2023 Gian Luca Burci, Suerie Moon, Daniela Morich, Adam Strobeyko & Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour A briefing series on the status of moves to reform the global system of pandemic preparedness and response launches today, just ahead of the WHO Executive Board review of progress next week. Looking back at 2022 and forward into 2023, this series by the Global Health Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute, published in collaboration […] Continue reading -> Africans Struggled to Get COVID-19 Tests – What Must Change Before the Next Pandemic? 26/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most Africans could not get a COVID-19 test unless they were hospitalised or could afford to pay a private laboratory for a pricey test – yet rapid tests were being dished out free in the US and Europe. High prices, slow regulatory approval, and outdated ideas about self-testing were some of the barriers that prevented […] Continue reading -> African Health Authorities Juggle Concurrent Outbreak Responses 26/01/2023 Paul Adepoju The first three weeks of 2023 were encouraging for the African continent’s fight against COVID-19. With cases down 97% year-on-year since the same period in 2022, hospitalizations for severe illness and deaths from the virus decreased significantly, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office said. “For the first time since COVID-19 shook our lives, January […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Governing Pandemics Snapshot 27/01/2023 Gian Luca Burci, Suerie Moon, Daniela Morich, Adam Strobeyko & Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour A briefing series on the status of moves to reform the global system of pandemic preparedness and response launches today, just ahead of the WHO Executive Board review of progress next week. Looking back at 2022 and forward into 2023, this series by the Global Health Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute, published in collaboration […] Continue reading -> Africans Struggled to Get COVID-19 Tests – What Must Change Before the Next Pandemic? 26/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most Africans could not get a COVID-19 test unless they were hospitalised or could afford to pay a private laboratory for a pricey test – yet rapid tests were being dished out free in the US and Europe. High prices, slow regulatory approval, and outdated ideas about self-testing were some of the barriers that prevented […] Continue reading -> African Health Authorities Juggle Concurrent Outbreak Responses 26/01/2023 Paul Adepoju The first three weeks of 2023 were encouraging for the African continent’s fight against COVID-19. With cases down 97% year-on-year since the same period in 2022, hospitalizations for severe illness and deaths from the virus decreased significantly, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office said. “For the first time since COVID-19 shook our lives, January […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Africans Struggled to Get COVID-19 Tests – What Must Change Before the Next Pandemic? 26/01/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most Africans could not get a COVID-19 test unless they were hospitalised or could afford to pay a private laboratory for a pricey test – yet rapid tests were being dished out free in the US and Europe. High prices, slow regulatory approval, and outdated ideas about self-testing were some of the barriers that prevented […] Continue reading -> African Health Authorities Juggle Concurrent Outbreak Responses 26/01/2023 Paul Adepoju The first three weeks of 2023 were encouraging for the African continent’s fight against COVID-19. With cases down 97% year-on-year since the same period in 2022, hospitalizations for severe illness and deaths from the virus decreased significantly, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office said. “For the first time since COVID-19 shook our lives, January […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
African Health Authorities Juggle Concurrent Outbreak Responses 26/01/2023 Paul Adepoju The first three weeks of 2023 were encouraging for the African continent’s fight against COVID-19. With cases down 97% year-on-year since the same period in 2022, hospitalizations for severe illness and deaths from the virus decreased significantly, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office said. “For the first time since COVID-19 shook our lives, January […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts