Dealing With Ebola and Anthrax Prepared Africa for COVID-19 27/04/2021 Kerry Cullinan Africa’s brutal experiences battling Ebola and a range of other deadly diseases helped prepare health systems to deal with COVID-19. And by the time the SARS-CoV2 virus landed on the continent, its Centre for Disease Control (CDC) had already “established regional coordinating centres, increased lab capacity and unified surveillance networks”. The lessons in emergency response […] Continue reading -> A Good Place To Start To Beat The COVID Obesity Pandemic – Warning Labels on Unhealthy Foods 01/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay The obesity pandemic is in “the same room” as the COVID pandemic in terms of its threats to health – putting people at greater risk of premature death from multiple causes, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that leads to COVID-19. And ever since stay-at-home measures became routine, people have gained even more weight – up to […] Continue reading -> ‘WHO As Fragile As It Is Indispensable’ – Report Probes Geneva Global Health Hub’s Response To COVID Crisis 12/03/2021 Geneva Solutions One year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020, a new report by the Foundation for Geneva has traced the success and the failures of the WHO and other international Geneva organisations in their response – as well as the implications for the future of multilateralism. […] Continue reading -> (Mis)Represented. Our Global Health is UnGlobal. 24/02/2021 Fifa A Rahman, Felicita Hikuam, Nyasha Chingore-Munazvo & Gisa Dang The appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Nigerian Finance Minister, World Bank development economist and its former Vice President, and black African woman, as head of the WTO, has been heralded as ‘a big deal’, an inspiration, and ‘a sign of the many strides (Africa) has made in gender parity’. While all this is true, […] Continue reading -> Reimagining Public Health 17/02/2021 Jose Luis Castro The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the profound dangers of having social, economic and health care systems that marginalize public health. To go forward, we must start by looking back. We must build a stronger foundation with better systems that can prevent future pandemics and also weave health into all aspects of society, from our workplaces […] Continue reading -> Global Ebola Vaccine Stockpile Created By WHO, UNICEF & Partners 12/01/2021 Editorial team NEW YORK/ GENEVA. The World Health Organization, UNICEF and two leading international health and humanitarian civil society organizations announced on Tuesday the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure rapid response to future outbreaks. Establishment of the stockpile was led by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which also includes the […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Is An Existential Threat To Health: Diverse Global Health Leaders & Politicians Echo Growing Sentiment 25/11/2020 Paul Adepoju ‘Planetary health’ describes how the limits of natural resources like clean air, water and food production shape our long-term health, with climate change as a “threat-multiplier” for future COVID-19 like crises. Experts at the Geneva Health Forum explored the links, ahead of next week’s launch of the 2020 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate […] Continue reading -> Achieving Health Equity Is Restricted By Politicians’ Reluctance To Act Upon Science 19/11/2020 Paul Adepoju The current power dynamics in global health are a barrier to achieving health equity, partly because too many high-profile politicians are simply reluctant to listen to, or act upon, scientific evidence, and partly because of countries and institutions that wield disproportionate influence in today’s global health architecture aren’t willing to relinquish their power: a left-over […] Continue reading -> Partnerships Between Public And Private Health Needed To Achieve Universal Heatlh Coverage 19/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi The COVID-19 pandemic did not so much create cracks in healthcare systems around the world, as it exposed weaknesses in them, participants at the Geneva Health Forum said Wednesday at a session on how health systems have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have found fragility everywhere,” said Edward Kelley, Director of Integrated Health Services […] Continue reading -> Expanding Social Health Protection To Reach Universal Health Coverage 19/11/2020 Pip Cook/Geneva Solutions Experts met at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) this week to discuss the successes and challenges met in expanding social health protection to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every year, around 100 million people are pushed into “extreme poverty” because they have to pay for health care, and over 800 million people – almost 12% […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
A Good Place To Start To Beat The COVID Obesity Pandemic – Warning Labels on Unhealthy Foods 01/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay The obesity pandemic is in “the same room” as the COVID pandemic in terms of its threats to health – putting people at greater risk of premature death from multiple causes, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that leads to COVID-19. And ever since stay-at-home measures became routine, people have gained even more weight – up to […] Continue reading -> ‘WHO As Fragile As It Is Indispensable’ – Report Probes Geneva Global Health Hub’s Response To COVID Crisis 12/03/2021 Geneva Solutions One year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020, a new report by the Foundation for Geneva has traced the success and the failures of the WHO and other international Geneva organisations in their response – as well as the implications for the future of multilateralism. […] Continue reading -> (Mis)Represented. Our Global Health is UnGlobal. 24/02/2021 Fifa A Rahman, Felicita Hikuam, Nyasha Chingore-Munazvo & Gisa Dang The appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Nigerian Finance Minister, World Bank development economist and its former Vice President, and black African woman, as head of the WTO, has been heralded as ‘a big deal’, an inspiration, and ‘a sign of the many strides (Africa) has made in gender parity’. While all this is true, […] Continue reading -> Reimagining Public Health 17/02/2021 Jose Luis Castro The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the profound dangers of having social, economic and health care systems that marginalize public health. To go forward, we must start by looking back. We must build a stronger foundation with better systems that can prevent future pandemics and also weave health into all aspects of society, from our workplaces […] Continue reading -> Global Ebola Vaccine Stockpile Created By WHO, UNICEF & Partners 12/01/2021 Editorial team NEW YORK/ GENEVA. The World Health Organization, UNICEF and two leading international health and humanitarian civil society organizations announced on Tuesday the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure rapid response to future outbreaks. Establishment of the stockpile was led by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which also includes the […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Is An Existential Threat To Health: Diverse Global Health Leaders & Politicians Echo Growing Sentiment 25/11/2020 Paul Adepoju ‘Planetary health’ describes how the limits of natural resources like clean air, water and food production shape our long-term health, with climate change as a “threat-multiplier” for future COVID-19 like crises. Experts at the Geneva Health Forum explored the links, ahead of next week’s launch of the 2020 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate […] Continue reading -> Achieving Health Equity Is Restricted By Politicians’ Reluctance To Act Upon Science 19/11/2020 Paul Adepoju The current power dynamics in global health are a barrier to achieving health equity, partly because too many high-profile politicians are simply reluctant to listen to, or act upon, scientific evidence, and partly because of countries and institutions that wield disproportionate influence in today’s global health architecture aren’t willing to relinquish their power: a left-over […] Continue reading -> Partnerships Between Public And Private Health Needed To Achieve Universal Heatlh Coverage 19/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi The COVID-19 pandemic did not so much create cracks in healthcare systems around the world, as it exposed weaknesses in them, participants at the Geneva Health Forum said Wednesday at a session on how health systems have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have found fragility everywhere,” said Edward Kelley, Director of Integrated Health Services […] Continue reading -> Expanding Social Health Protection To Reach Universal Health Coverage 19/11/2020 Pip Cook/Geneva Solutions Experts met at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) this week to discuss the successes and challenges met in expanding social health protection to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every year, around 100 million people are pushed into “extreme poverty” because they have to pay for health care, and over 800 million people – almost 12% […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘WHO As Fragile As It Is Indispensable’ – Report Probes Geneva Global Health Hub’s Response To COVID Crisis 12/03/2021 Geneva Solutions One year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020, a new report by the Foundation for Geneva has traced the success and the failures of the WHO and other international Geneva organisations in their response – as well as the implications for the future of multilateralism. […] Continue reading -> (Mis)Represented. Our Global Health is UnGlobal. 24/02/2021 Fifa A Rahman, Felicita Hikuam, Nyasha Chingore-Munazvo & Gisa Dang The appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Nigerian Finance Minister, World Bank development economist and its former Vice President, and black African woman, as head of the WTO, has been heralded as ‘a big deal’, an inspiration, and ‘a sign of the many strides (Africa) has made in gender parity’. While all this is true, […] Continue reading -> Reimagining Public Health 17/02/2021 Jose Luis Castro The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the profound dangers of having social, economic and health care systems that marginalize public health. To go forward, we must start by looking back. We must build a stronger foundation with better systems that can prevent future pandemics and also weave health into all aspects of society, from our workplaces […] Continue reading -> Global Ebola Vaccine Stockpile Created By WHO, UNICEF & Partners 12/01/2021 Editorial team NEW YORK/ GENEVA. The World Health Organization, UNICEF and two leading international health and humanitarian civil society organizations announced on Tuesday the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure rapid response to future outbreaks. Establishment of the stockpile was led by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which also includes the […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Is An Existential Threat To Health: Diverse Global Health Leaders & Politicians Echo Growing Sentiment 25/11/2020 Paul Adepoju ‘Planetary health’ describes how the limits of natural resources like clean air, water and food production shape our long-term health, with climate change as a “threat-multiplier” for future COVID-19 like crises. Experts at the Geneva Health Forum explored the links, ahead of next week’s launch of the 2020 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate […] Continue reading -> Achieving Health Equity Is Restricted By Politicians’ Reluctance To Act Upon Science 19/11/2020 Paul Adepoju The current power dynamics in global health are a barrier to achieving health equity, partly because too many high-profile politicians are simply reluctant to listen to, or act upon, scientific evidence, and partly because of countries and institutions that wield disproportionate influence in today’s global health architecture aren’t willing to relinquish their power: a left-over […] Continue reading -> Partnerships Between Public And Private Health Needed To Achieve Universal Heatlh Coverage 19/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi The COVID-19 pandemic did not so much create cracks in healthcare systems around the world, as it exposed weaknesses in them, participants at the Geneva Health Forum said Wednesday at a session on how health systems have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have found fragility everywhere,” said Edward Kelley, Director of Integrated Health Services […] Continue reading -> Expanding Social Health Protection To Reach Universal Health Coverage 19/11/2020 Pip Cook/Geneva Solutions Experts met at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) this week to discuss the successes and challenges met in expanding social health protection to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every year, around 100 million people are pushed into “extreme poverty” because they have to pay for health care, and over 800 million people – almost 12% […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
(Mis)Represented. Our Global Health is UnGlobal. 24/02/2021 Fifa A Rahman, Felicita Hikuam, Nyasha Chingore-Munazvo & Gisa Dang The appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Nigerian Finance Minister, World Bank development economist and its former Vice President, and black African woman, as head of the WTO, has been heralded as ‘a big deal’, an inspiration, and ‘a sign of the many strides (Africa) has made in gender parity’. While all this is true, […] Continue reading -> Reimagining Public Health 17/02/2021 Jose Luis Castro The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the profound dangers of having social, economic and health care systems that marginalize public health. To go forward, we must start by looking back. We must build a stronger foundation with better systems that can prevent future pandemics and also weave health into all aspects of society, from our workplaces […] Continue reading -> Global Ebola Vaccine Stockpile Created By WHO, UNICEF & Partners 12/01/2021 Editorial team NEW YORK/ GENEVA. The World Health Organization, UNICEF and two leading international health and humanitarian civil society organizations announced on Tuesday the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure rapid response to future outbreaks. Establishment of the stockpile was led by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which also includes the […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Is An Existential Threat To Health: Diverse Global Health Leaders & Politicians Echo Growing Sentiment 25/11/2020 Paul Adepoju ‘Planetary health’ describes how the limits of natural resources like clean air, water and food production shape our long-term health, with climate change as a “threat-multiplier” for future COVID-19 like crises. Experts at the Geneva Health Forum explored the links, ahead of next week’s launch of the 2020 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate […] Continue reading -> Achieving Health Equity Is Restricted By Politicians’ Reluctance To Act Upon Science 19/11/2020 Paul Adepoju The current power dynamics in global health are a barrier to achieving health equity, partly because too many high-profile politicians are simply reluctant to listen to, or act upon, scientific evidence, and partly because of countries and institutions that wield disproportionate influence in today’s global health architecture aren’t willing to relinquish their power: a left-over […] Continue reading -> Partnerships Between Public And Private Health Needed To Achieve Universal Heatlh Coverage 19/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi The COVID-19 pandemic did not so much create cracks in healthcare systems around the world, as it exposed weaknesses in them, participants at the Geneva Health Forum said Wednesday at a session on how health systems have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have found fragility everywhere,” said Edward Kelley, Director of Integrated Health Services […] Continue reading -> Expanding Social Health Protection To Reach Universal Health Coverage 19/11/2020 Pip Cook/Geneva Solutions Experts met at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) this week to discuss the successes and challenges met in expanding social health protection to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every year, around 100 million people are pushed into “extreme poverty” because they have to pay for health care, and over 800 million people – almost 12% […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Reimagining Public Health 17/02/2021 Jose Luis Castro The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the profound dangers of having social, economic and health care systems that marginalize public health. To go forward, we must start by looking back. We must build a stronger foundation with better systems that can prevent future pandemics and also weave health into all aspects of society, from our workplaces […] Continue reading -> Global Ebola Vaccine Stockpile Created By WHO, UNICEF & Partners 12/01/2021 Editorial team NEW YORK/ GENEVA. The World Health Organization, UNICEF and two leading international health and humanitarian civil society organizations announced on Tuesday the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure rapid response to future outbreaks. Establishment of the stockpile was led by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which also includes the […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Is An Existential Threat To Health: Diverse Global Health Leaders & Politicians Echo Growing Sentiment 25/11/2020 Paul Adepoju ‘Planetary health’ describes how the limits of natural resources like clean air, water and food production shape our long-term health, with climate change as a “threat-multiplier” for future COVID-19 like crises. Experts at the Geneva Health Forum explored the links, ahead of next week’s launch of the 2020 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate […] Continue reading -> Achieving Health Equity Is Restricted By Politicians’ Reluctance To Act Upon Science 19/11/2020 Paul Adepoju The current power dynamics in global health are a barrier to achieving health equity, partly because too many high-profile politicians are simply reluctant to listen to, or act upon, scientific evidence, and partly because of countries and institutions that wield disproportionate influence in today’s global health architecture aren’t willing to relinquish their power: a left-over […] Continue reading -> Partnerships Between Public And Private Health Needed To Achieve Universal Heatlh Coverage 19/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi The COVID-19 pandemic did not so much create cracks in healthcare systems around the world, as it exposed weaknesses in them, participants at the Geneva Health Forum said Wednesday at a session on how health systems have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have found fragility everywhere,” said Edward Kelley, Director of Integrated Health Services […] Continue reading -> Expanding Social Health Protection To Reach Universal Health Coverage 19/11/2020 Pip Cook/Geneva Solutions Experts met at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) this week to discuss the successes and challenges met in expanding social health protection to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every year, around 100 million people are pushed into “extreme poverty” because they have to pay for health care, and over 800 million people – almost 12% […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Global Ebola Vaccine Stockpile Created By WHO, UNICEF & Partners 12/01/2021 Editorial team NEW YORK/ GENEVA. The World Health Organization, UNICEF and two leading international health and humanitarian civil society organizations announced on Tuesday the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure rapid response to future outbreaks. Establishment of the stockpile was led by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which also includes the […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Is An Existential Threat To Health: Diverse Global Health Leaders & Politicians Echo Growing Sentiment 25/11/2020 Paul Adepoju ‘Planetary health’ describes how the limits of natural resources like clean air, water and food production shape our long-term health, with climate change as a “threat-multiplier” for future COVID-19 like crises. Experts at the Geneva Health Forum explored the links, ahead of next week’s launch of the 2020 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate […] Continue reading -> Achieving Health Equity Is Restricted By Politicians’ Reluctance To Act Upon Science 19/11/2020 Paul Adepoju The current power dynamics in global health are a barrier to achieving health equity, partly because too many high-profile politicians are simply reluctant to listen to, or act upon, scientific evidence, and partly because of countries and institutions that wield disproportionate influence in today’s global health architecture aren’t willing to relinquish their power: a left-over […] Continue reading -> Partnerships Between Public And Private Health Needed To Achieve Universal Heatlh Coverage 19/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi The COVID-19 pandemic did not so much create cracks in healthcare systems around the world, as it exposed weaknesses in them, participants at the Geneva Health Forum said Wednesday at a session on how health systems have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have found fragility everywhere,” said Edward Kelley, Director of Integrated Health Services […] Continue reading -> Expanding Social Health Protection To Reach Universal Health Coverage 19/11/2020 Pip Cook/Geneva Solutions Experts met at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) this week to discuss the successes and challenges met in expanding social health protection to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every year, around 100 million people are pushed into “extreme poverty” because they have to pay for health care, and over 800 million people – almost 12% […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Climate Change Is An Existential Threat To Health: Diverse Global Health Leaders & Politicians Echo Growing Sentiment 25/11/2020 Paul Adepoju ‘Planetary health’ describes how the limits of natural resources like clean air, water and food production shape our long-term health, with climate change as a “threat-multiplier” for future COVID-19 like crises. Experts at the Geneva Health Forum explored the links, ahead of next week’s launch of the 2020 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate […] Continue reading -> Achieving Health Equity Is Restricted By Politicians’ Reluctance To Act Upon Science 19/11/2020 Paul Adepoju The current power dynamics in global health are a barrier to achieving health equity, partly because too many high-profile politicians are simply reluctant to listen to, or act upon, scientific evidence, and partly because of countries and institutions that wield disproportionate influence in today’s global health architecture aren’t willing to relinquish their power: a left-over […] Continue reading -> Partnerships Between Public And Private Health Needed To Achieve Universal Heatlh Coverage 19/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi The COVID-19 pandemic did not so much create cracks in healthcare systems around the world, as it exposed weaknesses in them, participants at the Geneva Health Forum said Wednesday at a session on how health systems have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have found fragility everywhere,” said Edward Kelley, Director of Integrated Health Services […] Continue reading -> Expanding Social Health Protection To Reach Universal Health Coverage 19/11/2020 Pip Cook/Geneva Solutions Experts met at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) this week to discuss the successes and challenges met in expanding social health protection to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every year, around 100 million people are pushed into “extreme poverty” because they have to pay for health care, and over 800 million people – almost 12% […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Achieving Health Equity Is Restricted By Politicians’ Reluctance To Act Upon Science 19/11/2020 Paul Adepoju The current power dynamics in global health are a barrier to achieving health equity, partly because too many high-profile politicians are simply reluctant to listen to, or act upon, scientific evidence, and partly because of countries and institutions that wield disproportionate influence in today’s global health architecture aren’t willing to relinquish their power: a left-over […] Continue reading -> Partnerships Between Public And Private Health Needed To Achieve Universal Heatlh Coverage 19/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi The COVID-19 pandemic did not so much create cracks in healthcare systems around the world, as it exposed weaknesses in them, participants at the Geneva Health Forum said Wednesday at a session on how health systems have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have found fragility everywhere,” said Edward Kelley, Director of Integrated Health Services […] Continue reading -> Expanding Social Health Protection To Reach Universal Health Coverage 19/11/2020 Pip Cook/Geneva Solutions Experts met at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) this week to discuss the successes and challenges met in expanding social health protection to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every year, around 100 million people are pushed into “extreme poverty” because they have to pay for health care, and over 800 million people – almost 12% […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Partnerships Between Public And Private Health Needed To Achieve Universal Heatlh Coverage 19/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi The COVID-19 pandemic did not so much create cracks in healthcare systems around the world, as it exposed weaknesses in them, participants at the Geneva Health Forum said Wednesday at a session on how health systems have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have found fragility everywhere,” said Edward Kelley, Director of Integrated Health Services […] Continue reading -> Expanding Social Health Protection To Reach Universal Health Coverage 19/11/2020 Pip Cook/Geneva Solutions Experts met at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) this week to discuss the successes and challenges met in expanding social health protection to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every year, around 100 million people are pushed into “extreme poverty” because they have to pay for health care, and over 800 million people – almost 12% […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Expanding Social Health Protection To Reach Universal Health Coverage 19/11/2020 Pip Cook/Geneva Solutions Experts met at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) this week to discuss the successes and challenges met in expanding social health protection to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every year, around 100 million people are pushed into “extreme poverty” because they have to pay for health care, and over 800 million people – almost 12% […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts