The proposed pandemic agreement being negotiated at the World Health Organization (WHO) represents a critical opportunity for the global community to prevent future pandemics – including through coordinated multi-sectoral surveillance across human, animal, and environmental health data. As WHO member states gather in closed meetings over the next few week, three experts in wildlife health […] Continue reading ->
Cuts to global immunisation budgets are hitting measles vaccine coverage, disease surveillance, laboratory networks and outbreak response the hardest, according to the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE). SAGE, which advises the World Health Organization (WHO) on immunisation, issued the warning at a media briefing on Tuesday after its four-day biannual meeting. It warned […] Continue reading ->
Europe has successfully controlled many livestock diseases over the years, but the threat of animal diseases is never truly over – and climate change is increasing this threat. In 2023, the continent saw an outbreak of bluetongue virus that cost the Netherlands alone an estimated €200 million. Earlier this year, Germany experienced its first foot-and-mouth […] Continue reading ->
The US Environmental Protection Agency announced it would seek to roll back 31 climate, air and water pollution, and emissions regulations, declaring this is the “biggest deregulatory action” in US history. Leading environmental health voices say that rolling back pollution and climate regulations will inextricably harm the public’s health, though the Trump administration asserts that […] Continue reading ->
The list of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) projects that the Trump administration has cancelled runs to 368 pages and provides a rare glimpse of the extent of the US international influence. READ HERE: USAID Terminated Awards (6 March 2025) Projects vary from huge infrastructure support programmes (14 to unspecified countries worth $800 […] Continue reading ->
A four-year, multi-country trial measuring health impacts of reduced indoor air pollution due to the shifting of households from biomass to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) has yielded  mixed results – defying expectations that reduced indoor air pollution would yield significant health benefits. The study of 3,200 households in four Asian, African and Latin America countries […] Continue reading ->