US Rep At Nairobi Summit: No Support For Abortion In Family Planning 14/11/2019 Fredrick Nzwili and Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nairobi, Kenya – The US has thrown considerable weight behind opponents of the Nairobi Summit on Population and Development (ICPD25), saying it will only support family planning programmes that offer alternatives to abortions. The statement by Valerie Huber, the US special representative for global women’s health, on the Summit’s closing day, added fuel to the […] Continue reading -> Spike In Wildfires, Heat Waves & Reduced Crop Production Due To Climate Change, But Trends Can Be Slowed 14/11/2019 Grace Ren The world is experiencing a record-breaking surge in wildfires, downward trends in crop production, unprecedented heat waves, and a rise in infectious diseases as a result of the unabated pace of climate change – affecting the health and safety of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. However, dramatic action now could still keep the global […] Continue reading -> Nairobi Population Summit Draws Attention & Debate Over Reproductive Health Rights 12/11/2019 Fredrick Nzwili Nairobi, Kenya – A three day summit marking 25 years since the historic UN Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo opened here in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday, with a focus on actions that save mothers’ lives, make contraception and family planning more accessible, and end violence against women and girls. But as […] Continue reading -> WHO & UNICEF Co-Host First Conference On Child And Adolescent Mental Health 11/11/2019 Grace Ren With rates of self-harm, suicide and anxiety among children and young people growing around the world, UNICEF and the World Health Organization hosted the first ever “Leading Minds” Conference to tackle adolescent mental health on November 7-9. The forum highlighted the growing recognition of mental health as a global health problem, and follows moves made […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization And Sudan Ministry of Health Scale Up Response To Cholera Outbreak 06/11/2019 Grace Ren As a cholera outbreak inches closer to Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum, the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization are scaling up the response. Two cholera cases were confirmed in the district of Khartoum State on October 19. As of Monday, November 3, the Ministry of Health had reported 332 suspected cases […] Continue reading -> Civil Society Pressures French Leaders To Adopt Transparency Amendments 06/11/2019 Grace Ren A coalition of over 40 personalities – from doctors and economists to actors and health access activists – released an open letter Tuesday calling on the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn to support a series of amendments to the French Social Security Budget Bill for 2020 providing for […] Continue reading -> Urgent Climate Change Message By Over 11,000 Scientists; Reduce Air Pollution To Slow Warming & Save “Millions Of Lives” 05/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 11,258 scientists from 153 countries have issued a sharp warning in the journal BioScience, about the climate emergency faced by the global community. The scientists calls for “bold and drastic transformations” in six key areas to pull earth from the precipice of potentially catastrophic deterioration in basic life support systems. Their prescription includes: a […] Continue reading -> Delhi Air Pollution Emergency Triggers Protests, Political Squabbles – But No Real Action 04/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Grace Ren Demonstrators poured onto the streets and politicians pointed fingers as Delhi’s air pollution levels soared above the threshold air quality monitoring stations could record on Sunday. The Indian Supreme Court issued a scathing statement calling for politicians to stop “passing the buck” on the air pollution issue and take urgent action in the “public health […] Continue reading -> Delhi Declares “Public Health Emergency” As City Residents Choke On Air Pollution 01/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Delhi declared a public health emergency as air pollution levels soared on Friday, while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the mega-city had “turned into a gas chamber”. According to official government monitoring stations, levels of tiny PM10 air pollution particles had risen as high as 20 times WHO Air Quality Guideline levels in parts […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Spike In Wildfires, Heat Waves & Reduced Crop Production Due To Climate Change, But Trends Can Be Slowed 14/11/2019 Grace Ren The world is experiencing a record-breaking surge in wildfires, downward trends in crop production, unprecedented heat waves, and a rise in infectious diseases as a result of the unabated pace of climate change – affecting the health and safety of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. However, dramatic action now could still keep the global […] Continue reading -> Nairobi Population Summit Draws Attention & Debate Over Reproductive Health Rights 12/11/2019 Fredrick Nzwili Nairobi, Kenya – A three day summit marking 25 years since the historic UN Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo opened here in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday, with a focus on actions that save mothers’ lives, make contraception and family planning more accessible, and end violence against women and girls. But as […] Continue reading -> WHO & UNICEF Co-Host First Conference On Child And Adolescent Mental Health 11/11/2019 Grace Ren With rates of self-harm, suicide and anxiety among children and young people growing around the world, UNICEF and the World Health Organization hosted the first ever “Leading Minds” Conference to tackle adolescent mental health on November 7-9. The forum highlighted the growing recognition of mental health as a global health problem, and follows moves made […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization And Sudan Ministry of Health Scale Up Response To Cholera Outbreak 06/11/2019 Grace Ren As a cholera outbreak inches closer to Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum, the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization are scaling up the response. Two cholera cases were confirmed in the district of Khartoum State on October 19. As of Monday, November 3, the Ministry of Health had reported 332 suspected cases […] Continue reading -> Civil Society Pressures French Leaders To Adopt Transparency Amendments 06/11/2019 Grace Ren A coalition of over 40 personalities – from doctors and economists to actors and health access activists – released an open letter Tuesday calling on the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn to support a series of amendments to the French Social Security Budget Bill for 2020 providing for […] Continue reading -> Urgent Climate Change Message By Over 11,000 Scientists; Reduce Air Pollution To Slow Warming & Save “Millions Of Lives” 05/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 11,258 scientists from 153 countries have issued a sharp warning in the journal BioScience, about the climate emergency faced by the global community. The scientists calls for “bold and drastic transformations” in six key areas to pull earth from the precipice of potentially catastrophic deterioration in basic life support systems. Their prescription includes: a […] Continue reading -> Delhi Air Pollution Emergency Triggers Protests, Political Squabbles – But No Real Action 04/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Grace Ren Demonstrators poured onto the streets and politicians pointed fingers as Delhi’s air pollution levels soared above the threshold air quality monitoring stations could record on Sunday. The Indian Supreme Court issued a scathing statement calling for politicians to stop “passing the buck” on the air pollution issue and take urgent action in the “public health […] Continue reading -> Delhi Declares “Public Health Emergency” As City Residents Choke On Air Pollution 01/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Delhi declared a public health emergency as air pollution levels soared on Friday, while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the mega-city had “turned into a gas chamber”. According to official government monitoring stations, levels of tiny PM10 air pollution particles had risen as high as 20 times WHO Air Quality Guideline levels in parts […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Nairobi Population Summit Draws Attention & Debate Over Reproductive Health Rights 12/11/2019 Fredrick Nzwili Nairobi, Kenya – A three day summit marking 25 years since the historic UN Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo opened here in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday, with a focus on actions that save mothers’ lives, make contraception and family planning more accessible, and end violence against women and girls. But as […] Continue reading -> WHO & UNICEF Co-Host First Conference On Child And Adolescent Mental Health 11/11/2019 Grace Ren With rates of self-harm, suicide and anxiety among children and young people growing around the world, UNICEF and the World Health Organization hosted the first ever “Leading Minds” Conference to tackle adolescent mental health on November 7-9. The forum highlighted the growing recognition of mental health as a global health problem, and follows moves made […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization And Sudan Ministry of Health Scale Up Response To Cholera Outbreak 06/11/2019 Grace Ren As a cholera outbreak inches closer to Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum, the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization are scaling up the response. Two cholera cases were confirmed in the district of Khartoum State on October 19. As of Monday, November 3, the Ministry of Health had reported 332 suspected cases […] Continue reading -> Civil Society Pressures French Leaders To Adopt Transparency Amendments 06/11/2019 Grace Ren A coalition of over 40 personalities – from doctors and economists to actors and health access activists – released an open letter Tuesday calling on the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn to support a series of amendments to the French Social Security Budget Bill for 2020 providing for […] Continue reading -> Urgent Climate Change Message By Over 11,000 Scientists; Reduce Air Pollution To Slow Warming & Save “Millions Of Lives” 05/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 11,258 scientists from 153 countries have issued a sharp warning in the journal BioScience, about the climate emergency faced by the global community. The scientists calls for “bold and drastic transformations” in six key areas to pull earth from the precipice of potentially catastrophic deterioration in basic life support systems. Their prescription includes: a […] Continue reading -> Delhi Air Pollution Emergency Triggers Protests, Political Squabbles – But No Real Action 04/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Grace Ren Demonstrators poured onto the streets and politicians pointed fingers as Delhi’s air pollution levels soared above the threshold air quality monitoring stations could record on Sunday. The Indian Supreme Court issued a scathing statement calling for politicians to stop “passing the buck” on the air pollution issue and take urgent action in the “public health […] Continue reading -> Delhi Declares “Public Health Emergency” As City Residents Choke On Air Pollution 01/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Delhi declared a public health emergency as air pollution levels soared on Friday, while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the mega-city had “turned into a gas chamber”. According to official government monitoring stations, levels of tiny PM10 air pollution particles had risen as high as 20 times WHO Air Quality Guideline levels in parts […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO & UNICEF Co-Host First Conference On Child And Adolescent Mental Health 11/11/2019 Grace Ren With rates of self-harm, suicide and anxiety among children and young people growing around the world, UNICEF and the World Health Organization hosted the first ever “Leading Minds” Conference to tackle adolescent mental health on November 7-9. The forum highlighted the growing recognition of mental health as a global health problem, and follows moves made […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization And Sudan Ministry of Health Scale Up Response To Cholera Outbreak 06/11/2019 Grace Ren As a cholera outbreak inches closer to Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum, the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization are scaling up the response. Two cholera cases were confirmed in the district of Khartoum State on October 19. As of Monday, November 3, the Ministry of Health had reported 332 suspected cases […] Continue reading -> Civil Society Pressures French Leaders To Adopt Transparency Amendments 06/11/2019 Grace Ren A coalition of over 40 personalities – from doctors and economists to actors and health access activists – released an open letter Tuesday calling on the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn to support a series of amendments to the French Social Security Budget Bill for 2020 providing for […] Continue reading -> Urgent Climate Change Message By Over 11,000 Scientists; Reduce Air Pollution To Slow Warming & Save “Millions Of Lives” 05/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 11,258 scientists from 153 countries have issued a sharp warning in the journal BioScience, about the climate emergency faced by the global community. The scientists calls for “bold and drastic transformations” in six key areas to pull earth from the precipice of potentially catastrophic deterioration in basic life support systems. Their prescription includes: a […] Continue reading -> Delhi Air Pollution Emergency Triggers Protests, Political Squabbles – But No Real Action 04/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Grace Ren Demonstrators poured onto the streets and politicians pointed fingers as Delhi’s air pollution levels soared above the threshold air quality monitoring stations could record on Sunday. The Indian Supreme Court issued a scathing statement calling for politicians to stop “passing the buck” on the air pollution issue and take urgent action in the “public health […] Continue reading -> Delhi Declares “Public Health Emergency” As City Residents Choke On Air Pollution 01/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Delhi declared a public health emergency as air pollution levels soared on Friday, while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the mega-city had “turned into a gas chamber”. According to official government monitoring stations, levels of tiny PM10 air pollution particles had risen as high as 20 times WHO Air Quality Guideline levels in parts […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
World Health Organization And Sudan Ministry of Health Scale Up Response To Cholera Outbreak 06/11/2019 Grace Ren As a cholera outbreak inches closer to Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum, the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization are scaling up the response. Two cholera cases were confirmed in the district of Khartoum State on October 19. As of Monday, November 3, the Ministry of Health had reported 332 suspected cases […] Continue reading -> Civil Society Pressures French Leaders To Adopt Transparency Amendments 06/11/2019 Grace Ren A coalition of over 40 personalities – from doctors and economists to actors and health access activists – released an open letter Tuesday calling on the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn to support a series of amendments to the French Social Security Budget Bill for 2020 providing for […] Continue reading -> Urgent Climate Change Message By Over 11,000 Scientists; Reduce Air Pollution To Slow Warming & Save “Millions Of Lives” 05/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 11,258 scientists from 153 countries have issued a sharp warning in the journal BioScience, about the climate emergency faced by the global community. The scientists calls for “bold and drastic transformations” in six key areas to pull earth from the precipice of potentially catastrophic deterioration in basic life support systems. Their prescription includes: a […] Continue reading -> Delhi Air Pollution Emergency Triggers Protests, Political Squabbles – But No Real Action 04/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Grace Ren Demonstrators poured onto the streets and politicians pointed fingers as Delhi’s air pollution levels soared above the threshold air quality monitoring stations could record on Sunday. The Indian Supreme Court issued a scathing statement calling for politicians to stop “passing the buck” on the air pollution issue and take urgent action in the “public health […] Continue reading -> Delhi Declares “Public Health Emergency” As City Residents Choke On Air Pollution 01/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Delhi declared a public health emergency as air pollution levels soared on Friday, while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the mega-city had “turned into a gas chamber”. According to official government monitoring stations, levels of tiny PM10 air pollution particles had risen as high as 20 times WHO Air Quality Guideline levels in parts […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Civil Society Pressures French Leaders To Adopt Transparency Amendments 06/11/2019 Grace Ren A coalition of over 40 personalities – from doctors and economists to actors and health access activists – released an open letter Tuesday calling on the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn to support a series of amendments to the French Social Security Budget Bill for 2020 providing for […] Continue reading -> Urgent Climate Change Message By Over 11,000 Scientists; Reduce Air Pollution To Slow Warming & Save “Millions Of Lives” 05/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 11,258 scientists from 153 countries have issued a sharp warning in the journal BioScience, about the climate emergency faced by the global community. The scientists calls for “bold and drastic transformations” in six key areas to pull earth from the precipice of potentially catastrophic deterioration in basic life support systems. Their prescription includes: a […] Continue reading -> Delhi Air Pollution Emergency Triggers Protests, Political Squabbles – But No Real Action 04/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Grace Ren Demonstrators poured onto the streets and politicians pointed fingers as Delhi’s air pollution levels soared above the threshold air quality monitoring stations could record on Sunday. The Indian Supreme Court issued a scathing statement calling for politicians to stop “passing the buck” on the air pollution issue and take urgent action in the “public health […] Continue reading -> Delhi Declares “Public Health Emergency” As City Residents Choke On Air Pollution 01/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Delhi declared a public health emergency as air pollution levels soared on Friday, while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the mega-city had “turned into a gas chamber”. According to official government monitoring stations, levels of tiny PM10 air pollution particles had risen as high as 20 times WHO Air Quality Guideline levels in parts […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Urgent Climate Change Message By Over 11,000 Scientists; Reduce Air Pollution To Slow Warming & Save “Millions Of Lives” 05/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 11,258 scientists from 153 countries have issued a sharp warning in the journal BioScience, about the climate emergency faced by the global community. The scientists calls for “bold and drastic transformations” in six key areas to pull earth from the precipice of potentially catastrophic deterioration in basic life support systems. Their prescription includes: a […] Continue reading -> Delhi Air Pollution Emergency Triggers Protests, Political Squabbles – But No Real Action 04/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Grace Ren Demonstrators poured onto the streets and politicians pointed fingers as Delhi’s air pollution levels soared above the threshold air quality monitoring stations could record on Sunday. The Indian Supreme Court issued a scathing statement calling for politicians to stop “passing the buck” on the air pollution issue and take urgent action in the “public health […] Continue reading -> Delhi Declares “Public Health Emergency” As City Residents Choke On Air Pollution 01/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Delhi declared a public health emergency as air pollution levels soared on Friday, while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the mega-city had “turned into a gas chamber”. According to official government monitoring stations, levels of tiny PM10 air pollution particles had risen as high as 20 times WHO Air Quality Guideline levels in parts […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Delhi Air Pollution Emergency Triggers Protests, Political Squabbles – But No Real Action 04/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Grace Ren Demonstrators poured onto the streets and politicians pointed fingers as Delhi’s air pollution levels soared above the threshold air quality monitoring stations could record on Sunday. The Indian Supreme Court issued a scathing statement calling for politicians to stop “passing the buck” on the air pollution issue and take urgent action in the “public health […] Continue reading -> Delhi Declares “Public Health Emergency” As City Residents Choke On Air Pollution 01/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Delhi declared a public health emergency as air pollution levels soared on Friday, while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the mega-city had “turned into a gas chamber”. According to official government monitoring stations, levels of tiny PM10 air pollution particles had risen as high as 20 times WHO Air Quality Guideline levels in parts […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Delhi Declares “Public Health Emergency” As City Residents Choke On Air Pollution 01/11/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Delhi declared a public health emergency as air pollution levels soared on Friday, while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the mega-city had “turned into a gas chamber”. According to official government monitoring stations, levels of tiny PM10 air pollution particles had risen as high as 20 times WHO Air Quality Guideline levels in parts […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts