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Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries
Climate and Health
After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, ...
‘We Need a New Model Not Faster Horses,’ Urges Winner of Global Health Award
Health Systems
“We don’t need faster horses, we need a new model of global health,” says Professor Helen Rees, who received the World ...
Nutrition Leaders Sound Alarm on Rising Hunger and Stalled Progress
Geneva Health Forum 2025
GENEVA – Although the past decade has seen progress in the fight against malnutrition, 148 million children remain stunted, 45 million ...
The ‘Soft Power’ of Public Health; Global Coalition of Deans Etches A Way Forward 
In Focus
In April 2022, amidst the continuing uproar of the COVID pandemic, four deans of schools of public health from the USA, ...
Post Pandemic: Wastewater-based Surveillance of Diseases Comes of Age 
Disease Surveillance
A method that first developed around polio elimination and matured during the COVID pandemic, is now being tested and used to ...
One Health is a ‘One World’ Agenda, Even as Negotiators Wrangle Over Inclusion in WHO Pandemic Accord 
One Health
Is One Health really an agenda of only the Global North?  Panelists at an event last week, hosted by the Geneva ...
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Scientist Disputes Indian Government Claim that Farm Fires Were Reduced by 90% – As Public Outrage Over Air Pollution Grows
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Climate Health Research Blind Spots Threaten WHO’s Climate Agenda, Experts Warn
GENEVA – The World Health Organization has made climate change its top priority in its four-year work plan adopted at ...
30/05/2024
Cabo Verde Minister of Health: 5 Steps to Eliminate Malaria
Cabo Verde, a group of 10 islands in the Central Atlantic Ocean, was declared malaria-free in January. This milestone makes ...
Can Technology Help Address Global Migrant Crisis? Experts Weigh In
As the world grapples with a migrant and refugee crisis of unprecedented scale, with 281m international migrants and 3.5m refugees ...
28/05/2024
Scientist Disputes Indian Government Claim that Farm Fires Were Reduced by 90% – As Public Outrage Over Air Pollution Grows
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