Can Artificial Intelligence Revolutionise Healthcare? 07/02/2023 Editorial team As the world discusses how language model chatbot ChatGPT is changing the way information is created, the new episode of the “Global Health Matters” podcast addresses the question of how artificial intelligence and other technological tools can improve healthcare. “Investigators have already been testing the applicability of artificial intelligence to healthcare,” says host Garry Aslanyan. […] Continue reading -> As Earthquakes Hit Turkey and Syria, WHO Extends Refugee Health Plan – Undertakes Traditional Medicine Policy 06/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan As a second earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday morning, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) member states offered their solidarity during an Executive Board (EB) session that presciently focused on refugees and migrants. The two earthquakes struck within 12 hours, and by Monday evening over 2,600 deaths had been reported, while thousands of people […] Continue reading -> ‘More Talk’ on WHO Replenishment Fund Ahead of May’s Health Assembly 06/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A major overhaul of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) finances is chugging ahead after member states at Monday’s Executive Board meeting agreed that the reform proposals – including the mooted replenishment fund to bolster the global body’s core finances – will be taken to the World Health Assembly in May. However, some member states expressed […] Continue reading -> WHO Chief Fires Back in Clash with Russia 04/02/2023 John Heilprin The Russian delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB) called the report on the work of the UN health agency’s response to the Ukraine war “politicised,” prompting a spirited defense from the agency chief. Russia pressured the UN health agency to revise a report related to its emergency response in Ukraine, prompting […] Continue reading -> Time to Step Up and Fight Cancer in Africa 04/02/2023 Wilfred Ngwa & Richard Marlink Successful intervention is urgently needed – and entirely possible. Cancer kills nearly 10 million people a year, but the risk of dying from cancer varies greatly depending on where in the world you live. About 70% of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries – and the disparity is worsening. A Lancet Oncology Commission […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Crushes Nutrition ‘Decade of Action’ 03/02/2023 John Heilprin A new report on global nutrition from the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals just how much the COVID-19 pandemic hurt the world’s efforts to improve healthy eating and reduce diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Despite declaring 2016-2025 as the “United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition,” the UN General Assembly’s efforts to bolster nutrition […] Continue reading -> WHO EB Greenlights Evaluation of Countries’ Work to Curb Fake Medicines, in Wake of Child Deaths 03/02/2023 Megha Kaveri World Health Organization’s Executive Board (EB) has gotten behind the rollout of an independent evaluation of the agency’s member state mechanism addressing falsified and substandard medical products in order to see how surveillance and enforcement of production standards could be improved. The initiative, which now needs to go to the World Health Assembly in May, […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> Wide Support for New WHO ‘Best Buys’ to Address NCDs 02/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Higher taxes and warning labels on unhealthy food, cigarettes and alcohol, and better screening for cancers, are on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated list of “best buys” to address non-communicable diseases (NCD) discussed by member states at the body’s Executive Board meeting on Thursday. The list was updated in response to the lack of […] Continue reading -> Germany Promotes Stronger Role for WHO in Next Pandemic 02/02/2023 John Heilprin Germany’s top health official put in a pitch for the UN health agency to play a stronger role in the next pandemic, which is exactly the aim of a global pandemic treaty. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) released an initial proposal for a global pandemic treaty, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach plugged […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
As Earthquakes Hit Turkey and Syria, WHO Extends Refugee Health Plan – Undertakes Traditional Medicine Policy 06/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan As a second earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday morning, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) member states offered their solidarity during an Executive Board (EB) session that presciently focused on refugees and migrants. The two earthquakes struck within 12 hours, and by Monday evening over 2,600 deaths had been reported, while thousands of people […] Continue reading -> ‘More Talk’ on WHO Replenishment Fund Ahead of May’s Health Assembly 06/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A major overhaul of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) finances is chugging ahead after member states at Monday’s Executive Board meeting agreed that the reform proposals – including the mooted replenishment fund to bolster the global body’s core finances – will be taken to the World Health Assembly in May. However, some member states expressed […] Continue reading -> WHO Chief Fires Back in Clash with Russia 04/02/2023 John Heilprin The Russian delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB) called the report on the work of the UN health agency’s response to the Ukraine war “politicised,” prompting a spirited defense from the agency chief. Russia pressured the UN health agency to revise a report related to its emergency response in Ukraine, prompting […] Continue reading -> Time to Step Up and Fight Cancer in Africa 04/02/2023 Wilfred Ngwa & Richard Marlink Successful intervention is urgently needed – and entirely possible. Cancer kills nearly 10 million people a year, but the risk of dying from cancer varies greatly depending on where in the world you live. About 70% of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries – and the disparity is worsening. A Lancet Oncology Commission […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Crushes Nutrition ‘Decade of Action’ 03/02/2023 John Heilprin A new report on global nutrition from the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals just how much the COVID-19 pandemic hurt the world’s efforts to improve healthy eating and reduce diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Despite declaring 2016-2025 as the “United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition,” the UN General Assembly’s efforts to bolster nutrition […] Continue reading -> WHO EB Greenlights Evaluation of Countries’ Work to Curb Fake Medicines, in Wake of Child Deaths 03/02/2023 Megha Kaveri World Health Organization’s Executive Board (EB) has gotten behind the rollout of an independent evaluation of the agency’s member state mechanism addressing falsified and substandard medical products in order to see how surveillance and enforcement of production standards could be improved. The initiative, which now needs to go to the World Health Assembly in May, […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> Wide Support for New WHO ‘Best Buys’ to Address NCDs 02/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Higher taxes and warning labels on unhealthy food, cigarettes and alcohol, and better screening for cancers, are on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated list of “best buys” to address non-communicable diseases (NCD) discussed by member states at the body’s Executive Board meeting on Thursday. The list was updated in response to the lack of […] Continue reading -> Germany Promotes Stronger Role for WHO in Next Pandemic 02/02/2023 John Heilprin Germany’s top health official put in a pitch for the UN health agency to play a stronger role in the next pandemic, which is exactly the aim of a global pandemic treaty. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) released an initial proposal for a global pandemic treaty, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach plugged […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘More Talk’ on WHO Replenishment Fund Ahead of May’s Health Assembly 06/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A major overhaul of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) finances is chugging ahead after member states at Monday’s Executive Board meeting agreed that the reform proposals – including the mooted replenishment fund to bolster the global body’s core finances – will be taken to the World Health Assembly in May. However, some member states expressed […] Continue reading -> WHO Chief Fires Back in Clash with Russia 04/02/2023 John Heilprin The Russian delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB) called the report on the work of the UN health agency’s response to the Ukraine war “politicised,” prompting a spirited defense from the agency chief. Russia pressured the UN health agency to revise a report related to its emergency response in Ukraine, prompting […] Continue reading -> Time to Step Up and Fight Cancer in Africa 04/02/2023 Wilfred Ngwa & Richard Marlink Successful intervention is urgently needed – and entirely possible. Cancer kills nearly 10 million people a year, but the risk of dying from cancer varies greatly depending on where in the world you live. About 70% of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries – and the disparity is worsening. A Lancet Oncology Commission […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Crushes Nutrition ‘Decade of Action’ 03/02/2023 John Heilprin A new report on global nutrition from the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals just how much the COVID-19 pandemic hurt the world’s efforts to improve healthy eating and reduce diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Despite declaring 2016-2025 as the “United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition,” the UN General Assembly’s efforts to bolster nutrition […] Continue reading -> WHO EB Greenlights Evaluation of Countries’ Work to Curb Fake Medicines, in Wake of Child Deaths 03/02/2023 Megha Kaveri World Health Organization’s Executive Board (EB) has gotten behind the rollout of an independent evaluation of the agency’s member state mechanism addressing falsified and substandard medical products in order to see how surveillance and enforcement of production standards could be improved. The initiative, which now needs to go to the World Health Assembly in May, […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> Wide Support for New WHO ‘Best Buys’ to Address NCDs 02/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Higher taxes and warning labels on unhealthy food, cigarettes and alcohol, and better screening for cancers, are on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated list of “best buys” to address non-communicable diseases (NCD) discussed by member states at the body’s Executive Board meeting on Thursday. The list was updated in response to the lack of […] Continue reading -> Germany Promotes Stronger Role for WHO in Next Pandemic 02/02/2023 John Heilprin Germany’s top health official put in a pitch for the UN health agency to play a stronger role in the next pandemic, which is exactly the aim of a global pandemic treaty. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) released an initial proposal for a global pandemic treaty, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach plugged […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Chief Fires Back in Clash with Russia 04/02/2023 John Heilprin The Russian delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB) called the report on the work of the UN health agency’s response to the Ukraine war “politicised,” prompting a spirited defense from the agency chief. Russia pressured the UN health agency to revise a report related to its emergency response in Ukraine, prompting […] Continue reading -> Time to Step Up and Fight Cancer in Africa 04/02/2023 Wilfred Ngwa & Richard Marlink Successful intervention is urgently needed – and entirely possible. Cancer kills nearly 10 million people a year, but the risk of dying from cancer varies greatly depending on where in the world you live. About 70% of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries – and the disparity is worsening. A Lancet Oncology Commission […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Crushes Nutrition ‘Decade of Action’ 03/02/2023 John Heilprin A new report on global nutrition from the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals just how much the COVID-19 pandemic hurt the world’s efforts to improve healthy eating and reduce diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Despite declaring 2016-2025 as the “United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition,” the UN General Assembly’s efforts to bolster nutrition […] Continue reading -> WHO EB Greenlights Evaluation of Countries’ Work to Curb Fake Medicines, in Wake of Child Deaths 03/02/2023 Megha Kaveri World Health Organization’s Executive Board (EB) has gotten behind the rollout of an independent evaluation of the agency’s member state mechanism addressing falsified and substandard medical products in order to see how surveillance and enforcement of production standards could be improved. The initiative, which now needs to go to the World Health Assembly in May, […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> Wide Support for New WHO ‘Best Buys’ to Address NCDs 02/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Higher taxes and warning labels on unhealthy food, cigarettes and alcohol, and better screening for cancers, are on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated list of “best buys” to address non-communicable diseases (NCD) discussed by member states at the body’s Executive Board meeting on Thursday. The list was updated in response to the lack of […] Continue reading -> Germany Promotes Stronger Role for WHO in Next Pandemic 02/02/2023 John Heilprin Germany’s top health official put in a pitch for the UN health agency to play a stronger role in the next pandemic, which is exactly the aim of a global pandemic treaty. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) released an initial proposal for a global pandemic treaty, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach plugged […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Time to Step Up and Fight Cancer in Africa 04/02/2023 Wilfred Ngwa & Richard Marlink Successful intervention is urgently needed – and entirely possible. Cancer kills nearly 10 million people a year, but the risk of dying from cancer varies greatly depending on where in the world you live. About 70% of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries – and the disparity is worsening. A Lancet Oncology Commission […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Crushes Nutrition ‘Decade of Action’ 03/02/2023 John Heilprin A new report on global nutrition from the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals just how much the COVID-19 pandemic hurt the world’s efforts to improve healthy eating and reduce diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Despite declaring 2016-2025 as the “United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition,” the UN General Assembly’s efforts to bolster nutrition […] Continue reading -> WHO EB Greenlights Evaluation of Countries’ Work to Curb Fake Medicines, in Wake of Child Deaths 03/02/2023 Megha Kaveri World Health Organization’s Executive Board (EB) has gotten behind the rollout of an independent evaluation of the agency’s member state mechanism addressing falsified and substandard medical products in order to see how surveillance and enforcement of production standards could be improved. The initiative, which now needs to go to the World Health Assembly in May, […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> Wide Support for New WHO ‘Best Buys’ to Address NCDs 02/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Higher taxes and warning labels on unhealthy food, cigarettes and alcohol, and better screening for cancers, are on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated list of “best buys” to address non-communicable diseases (NCD) discussed by member states at the body’s Executive Board meeting on Thursday. The list was updated in response to the lack of […] Continue reading -> Germany Promotes Stronger Role for WHO in Next Pandemic 02/02/2023 John Heilprin Germany’s top health official put in a pitch for the UN health agency to play a stronger role in the next pandemic, which is exactly the aim of a global pandemic treaty. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) released an initial proposal for a global pandemic treaty, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach plugged […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Pandemic Crushes Nutrition ‘Decade of Action’ 03/02/2023 John Heilprin A new report on global nutrition from the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals just how much the COVID-19 pandemic hurt the world’s efforts to improve healthy eating and reduce diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Despite declaring 2016-2025 as the “United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition,” the UN General Assembly’s efforts to bolster nutrition […] Continue reading -> WHO EB Greenlights Evaluation of Countries’ Work to Curb Fake Medicines, in Wake of Child Deaths 03/02/2023 Megha Kaveri World Health Organization’s Executive Board (EB) has gotten behind the rollout of an independent evaluation of the agency’s member state mechanism addressing falsified and substandard medical products in order to see how surveillance and enforcement of production standards could be improved. The initiative, which now needs to go to the World Health Assembly in May, […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> Wide Support for New WHO ‘Best Buys’ to Address NCDs 02/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Higher taxes and warning labels on unhealthy food, cigarettes and alcohol, and better screening for cancers, are on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated list of “best buys” to address non-communicable diseases (NCD) discussed by member states at the body’s Executive Board meeting on Thursday. The list was updated in response to the lack of […] Continue reading -> Germany Promotes Stronger Role for WHO in Next Pandemic 02/02/2023 John Heilprin Germany’s top health official put in a pitch for the UN health agency to play a stronger role in the next pandemic, which is exactly the aim of a global pandemic treaty. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) released an initial proposal for a global pandemic treaty, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach plugged […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO EB Greenlights Evaluation of Countries’ Work to Curb Fake Medicines, in Wake of Child Deaths 03/02/2023 Megha Kaveri World Health Organization’s Executive Board (EB) has gotten behind the rollout of an independent evaluation of the agency’s member state mechanism addressing falsified and substandard medical products in order to see how surveillance and enforcement of production standards could be improved. The initiative, which now needs to go to the World Health Assembly in May, […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> Wide Support for New WHO ‘Best Buys’ to Address NCDs 02/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Higher taxes and warning labels on unhealthy food, cigarettes and alcohol, and better screening for cancers, are on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated list of “best buys” to address non-communicable diseases (NCD) discussed by member states at the body’s Executive Board meeting on Thursday. The list was updated in response to the lack of […] Continue reading -> Germany Promotes Stronger Role for WHO in Next Pandemic 02/02/2023 John Heilprin Germany’s top health official put in a pitch for the UN health agency to play a stronger role in the next pandemic, which is exactly the aim of a global pandemic treaty. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) released an initial proposal for a global pandemic treaty, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach plugged […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> Wide Support for New WHO ‘Best Buys’ to Address NCDs 02/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Higher taxes and warning labels on unhealthy food, cigarettes and alcohol, and better screening for cancers, are on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated list of “best buys” to address non-communicable diseases (NCD) discussed by member states at the body’s Executive Board meeting on Thursday. The list was updated in response to the lack of […] Continue reading -> Germany Promotes Stronger Role for WHO in Next Pandemic 02/02/2023 John Heilprin Germany’s top health official put in a pitch for the UN health agency to play a stronger role in the next pandemic, which is exactly the aim of a global pandemic treaty. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) released an initial proposal for a global pandemic treaty, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach plugged […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Wide Support for New WHO ‘Best Buys’ to Address NCDs 02/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Higher taxes and warning labels on unhealthy food, cigarettes and alcohol, and better screening for cancers, are on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated list of “best buys” to address non-communicable diseases (NCD) discussed by member states at the body’s Executive Board meeting on Thursday. The list was updated in response to the lack of […] Continue reading -> Germany Promotes Stronger Role for WHO in Next Pandemic 02/02/2023 John Heilprin Germany’s top health official put in a pitch for the UN health agency to play a stronger role in the next pandemic, which is exactly the aim of a global pandemic treaty. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) released an initial proposal for a global pandemic treaty, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach plugged […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Germany Promotes Stronger Role for WHO in Next Pandemic 02/02/2023 John Heilprin Germany’s top health official put in a pitch for the UN health agency to play a stronger role in the next pandemic, which is exactly the aim of a global pandemic treaty. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) released an initial proposal for a global pandemic treaty, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach plugged […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts