WHO Asks Russia for More Information About Death of Plague Unit Employee 07/10/2026 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked the Russian government for more information about the death of an employee at a Siberian plague research unit, including details about the laboratory tests conducted on her, the WHO Director-General told a media briefing on Thursday. The WHO has also asked Russia for more details about the public […] Continue reading -> Less Than 1% of International Development Finance Targets Air Pollution 07/10/2026 Stefan Anderson International development lenders committed $4.7 billion in 2024 to projects aimed explicitly at reducing air pollution, less than 1% of all international development finance, according to an annual analysis published Tuesday by the Clean Air Fund (CAF). That was up 58% from $3.0 billion in 2023, nearly matching the 2022 peak of $4.8 billion. A […] Continue reading -> GLP-1 Drugs? Surgery? WHO Issues Guidelines for Obesity in Children 07/10/2026 Sophia Samantaroy The World Health Organization (WHO) released its first-ever guidelines to address how clinicians should manage obesity in children and adolescents, which include conditional recommendations for obesity medications and even surgery for children over the age of 10. Since 1990, the number of children ages 5-9 years and adolescents 10-19 years living with obesity has quadrupled, […] Continue reading -> BREAKING: China Has Nominated Candidate for WHO Director General Whose Name Remains Undisclosed 06/10/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Felix Sassmannshausen China has nominated a prominent Chinese health official for WHO Director General in the 2027 elections, multiple diplomatic sources have confirmed to Health Policy Watch. But there are mixed reports about who that candidate actually may be. Some high-level sources have cited Song Li, a senior Chinese Communist Party official who mounted a failed bid […] Continue reading -> Extreme Heat Is Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Mothers and Newborns 06/10/2026 Stefan Anderson Nearly three in four maternal healthcare workers say extreme heat-related complications among pregnant women have increased over the past five years, according to a five-country survey released as climate ministers gathered in Fiji for the last major meeting before COP31. The poll of 1,001 obstetricians, midwives, nurses and other maternity staff in Australia, Brazil, India, […] Continue reading -> Health Crisis Looms for Zimbabwe Following US Withdrawal of Aid 05/10/2026 Jeffrey Moyo HARARE – In March, 27-year-old Jemitius Gangata succumbed to malaria in Mahombokombe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, becoming part of the country’s growing malaria statistics. By mid-April, the country had recorded over 65,000 malaria cases and 174 deaths, almost double the numbers from the same period last year, when 36,000 cases and 85 deaths […] Continue reading -> Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order 05/10/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen Global health has moved from an area of mutual cooperation to one dominated by “high politics” and division, observed Ilona Kickbusch at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) last Friday (2 October). Leading the closing panel, the founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, highlighted how recent voting at the […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time Since Pandemic Began 02/10/2026 Stefan Anderson COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped the list, according to new World Health Organization estimates released Friday. The virus directly killed an estimated 0.9 million people in 2023, ranking 14th, as […] Continue reading -> Northern India Braces for Toxic Winter Pollution, Despite Improved Delhi Plan 02/10/2026 Jyoti Pande Lavakare Rural farm fires and Diwali fireworks likely to trigger pollution emergencies in northern India during late autumn and early winter, despite the rollout of new pollution control measures in the capital city territory. DELHI, India – As India braces for the winter smog season, Delhi has announced a pollution mitigation plan for the expected peak […] Continue reading -> West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained 02/10/2026 Aseel Mafarjeh ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate blocking the road between Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Less Than 1% of International Development Finance Targets Air Pollution 07/10/2026 Stefan Anderson International development lenders committed $4.7 billion in 2024 to projects aimed explicitly at reducing air pollution, less than 1% of all international development finance, according to an annual analysis published Tuesday by the Clean Air Fund (CAF). That was up 58% from $3.0 billion in 2023, nearly matching the 2022 peak of $4.8 billion. A […] Continue reading -> GLP-1 Drugs? Surgery? WHO Issues Guidelines for Obesity in Children 07/10/2026 Sophia Samantaroy The World Health Organization (WHO) released its first-ever guidelines to address how clinicians should manage obesity in children and adolescents, which include conditional recommendations for obesity medications and even surgery for children over the age of 10. Since 1990, the number of children ages 5-9 years and adolescents 10-19 years living with obesity has quadrupled, […] Continue reading -> BREAKING: China Has Nominated Candidate for WHO Director General Whose Name Remains Undisclosed 06/10/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Felix Sassmannshausen China has nominated a prominent Chinese health official for WHO Director General in the 2027 elections, multiple diplomatic sources have confirmed to Health Policy Watch. But there are mixed reports about who that candidate actually may be. Some high-level sources have cited Song Li, a senior Chinese Communist Party official who mounted a failed bid […] Continue reading -> Extreme Heat Is Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Mothers and Newborns 06/10/2026 Stefan Anderson Nearly three in four maternal healthcare workers say extreme heat-related complications among pregnant women have increased over the past five years, according to a five-country survey released as climate ministers gathered in Fiji for the last major meeting before COP31. The poll of 1,001 obstetricians, midwives, nurses and other maternity staff in Australia, Brazil, India, […] Continue reading -> Health Crisis Looms for Zimbabwe Following US Withdrawal of Aid 05/10/2026 Jeffrey Moyo HARARE – In March, 27-year-old Jemitius Gangata succumbed to malaria in Mahombokombe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, becoming part of the country’s growing malaria statistics. By mid-April, the country had recorded over 65,000 malaria cases and 174 deaths, almost double the numbers from the same period last year, when 36,000 cases and 85 deaths […] Continue reading -> Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order 05/10/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen Global health has moved from an area of mutual cooperation to one dominated by “high politics” and division, observed Ilona Kickbusch at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) last Friday (2 October). Leading the closing panel, the founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, highlighted how recent voting at the […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time Since Pandemic Began 02/10/2026 Stefan Anderson COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped the list, according to new World Health Organization estimates released Friday. The virus directly killed an estimated 0.9 million people in 2023, ranking 14th, as […] Continue reading -> Northern India Braces for Toxic Winter Pollution, Despite Improved Delhi Plan 02/10/2026 Jyoti Pande Lavakare Rural farm fires and Diwali fireworks likely to trigger pollution emergencies in northern India during late autumn and early winter, despite the rollout of new pollution control measures in the capital city territory. DELHI, India – As India braces for the winter smog season, Delhi has announced a pollution mitigation plan for the expected peak […] Continue reading -> West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained 02/10/2026 Aseel Mafarjeh ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate blocking the road between Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
GLP-1 Drugs? Surgery? WHO Issues Guidelines for Obesity in Children 07/10/2026 Sophia Samantaroy The World Health Organization (WHO) released its first-ever guidelines to address how clinicians should manage obesity in children and adolescents, which include conditional recommendations for obesity medications and even surgery for children over the age of 10. Since 1990, the number of children ages 5-9 years and adolescents 10-19 years living with obesity has quadrupled, […] Continue reading -> BREAKING: China Has Nominated Candidate for WHO Director General Whose Name Remains Undisclosed 06/10/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Felix Sassmannshausen China has nominated a prominent Chinese health official for WHO Director General in the 2027 elections, multiple diplomatic sources have confirmed to Health Policy Watch. But there are mixed reports about who that candidate actually may be. Some high-level sources have cited Song Li, a senior Chinese Communist Party official who mounted a failed bid […] Continue reading -> Extreme Heat Is Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Mothers and Newborns 06/10/2026 Stefan Anderson Nearly three in four maternal healthcare workers say extreme heat-related complications among pregnant women have increased over the past five years, according to a five-country survey released as climate ministers gathered in Fiji for the last major meeting before COP31. The poll of 1,001 obstetricians, midwives, nurses and other maternity staff in Australia, Brazil, India, […] Continue reading -> Health Crisis Looms for Zimbabwe Following US Withdrawal of Aid 05/10/2026 Jeffrey Moyo HARARE – In March, 27-year-old Jemitius Gangata succumbed to malaria in Mahombokombe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, becoming part of the country’s growing malaria statistics. By mid-April, the country had recorded over 65,000 malaria cases and 174 deaths, almost double the numbers from the same period last year, when 36,000 cases and 85 deaths […] Continue reading -> Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order 05/10/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen Global health has moved from an area of mutual cooperation to one dominated by “high politics” and division, observed Ilona Kickbusch at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) last Friday (2 October). Leading the closing panel, the founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, highlighted how recent voting at the […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time Since Pandemic Began 02/10/2026 Stefan Anderson COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped the list, according to new World Health Organization estimates released Friday. The virus directly killed an estimated 0.9 million people in 2023, ranking 14th, as […] Continue reading -> Northern India Braces for Toxic Winter Pollution, Despite Improved Delhi Plan 02/10/2026 Jyoti Pande Lavakare Rural farm fires and Diwali fireworks likely to trigger pollution emergencies in northern India during late autumn and early winter, despite the rollout of new pollution control measures in the capital city territory. DELHI, India – As India braces for the winter smog season, Delhi has announced a pollution mitigation plan for the expected peak […] Continue reading -> West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained 02/10/2026 Aseel Mafarjeh ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate blocking the road between Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
BREAKING: China Has Nominated Candidate for WHO Director General Whose Name Remains Undisclosed 06/10/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Felix Sassmannshausen China has nominated a prominent Chinese health official for WHO Director General in the 2027 elections, multiple diplomatic sources have confirmed to Health Policy Watch. But there are mixed reports about who that candidate actually may be. Some high-level sources have cited Song Li, a senior Chinese Communist Party official who mounted a failed bid […] Continue reading -> Extreme Heat Is Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Mothers and Newborns 06/10/2026 Stefan Anderson Nearly three in four maternal healthcare workers say extreme heat-related complications among pregnant women have increased over the past five years, according to a five-country survey released as climate ministers gathered in Fiji for the last major meeting before COP31. The poll of 1,001 obstetricians, midwives, nurses and other maternity staff in Australia, Brazil, India, […] Continue reading -> Health Crisis Looms for Zimbabwe Following US Withdrawal of Aid 05/10/2026 Jeffrey Moyo HARARE – In March, 27-year-old Jemitius Gangata succumbed to malaria in Mahombokombe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, becoming part of the country’s growing malaria statistics. By mid-April, the country had recorded over 65,000 malaria cases and 174 deaths, almost double the numbers from the same period last year, when 36,000 cases and 85 deaths […] Continue reading -> Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order 05/10/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen Global health has moved from an area of mutual cooperation to one dominated by “high politics” and division, observed Ilona Kickbusch at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) last Friday (2 October). Leading the closing panel, the founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, highlighted how recent voting at the […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time Since Pandemic Began 02/10/2026 Stefan Anderson COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped the list, according to new World Health Organization estimates released Friday. The virus directly killed an estimated 0.9 million people in 2023, ranking 14th, as […] Continue reading -> Northern India Braces for Toxic Winter Pollution, Despite Improved Delhi Plan 02/10/2026 Jyoti Pande Lavakare Rural farm fires and Diwali fireworks likely to trigger pollution emergencies in northern India during late autumn and early winter, despite the rollout of new pollution control measures in the capital city territory. DELHI, India – As India braces for the winter smog season, Delhi has announced a pollution mitigation plan for the expected peak […] Continue reading -> West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained 02/10/2026 Aseel Mafarjeh ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate blocking the road between Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Extreme Heat Is Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Mothers and Newborns 06/10/2026 Stefan Anderson Nearly three in four maternal healthcare workers say extreme heat-related complications among pregnant women have increased over the past five years, according to a five-country survey released as climate ministers gathered in Fiji for the last major meeting before COP31. The poll of 1,001 obstetricians, midwives, nurses and other maternity staff in Australia, Brazil, India, […] Continue reading -> Health Crisis Looms for Zimbabwe Following US Withdrawal of Aid 05/10/2026 Jeffrey Moyo HARARE – In March, 27-year-old Jemitius Gangata succumbed to malaria in Mahombokombe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, becoming part of the country’s growing malaria statistics. By mid-April, the country had recorded over 65,000 malaria cases and 174 deaths, almost double the numbers from the same period last year, when 36,000 cases and 85 deaths […] Continue reading -> Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order 05/10/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen Global health has moved from an area of mutual cooperation to one dominated by “high politics” and division, observed Ilona Kickbusch at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) last Friday (2 October). Leading the closing panel, the founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, highlighted how recent voting at the […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time Since Pandemic Began 02/10/2026 Stefan Anderson COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped the list, according to new World Health Organization estimates released Friday. The virus directly killed an estimated 0.9 million people in 2023, ranking 14th, as […] Continue reading -> Northern India Braces for Toxic Winter Pollution, Despite Improved Delhi Plan 02/10/2026 Jyoti Pande Lavakare Rural farm fires and Diwali fireworks likely to trigger pollution emergencies in northern India during late autumn and early winter, despite the rollout of new pollution control measures in the capital city territory. DELHI, India – As India braces for the winter smog season, Delhi has announced a pollution mitigation plan for the expected peak […] Continue reading -> West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained 02/10/2026 Aseel Mafarjeh ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate blocking the road between Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Health Crisis Looms for Zimbabwe Following US Withdrawal of Aid 05/10/2026 Jeffrey Moyo HARARE – In March, 27-year-old Jemitius Gangata succumbed to malaria in Mahombokombe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, becoming part of the country’s growing malaria statistics. By mid-April, the country had recorded over 65,000 malaria cases and 174 deaths, almost double the numbers from the same period last year, when 36,000 cases and 85 deaths […] Continue reading -> Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order 05/10/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen Global health has moved from an area of mutual cooperation to one dominated by “high politics” and division, observed Ilona Kickbusch at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) last Friday (2 October). Leading the closing panel, the founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, highlighted how recent voting at the […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time Since Pandemic Began 02/10/2026 Stefan Anderson COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped the list, according to new World Health Organization estimates released Friday. The virus directly killed an estimated 0.9 million people in 2023, ranking 14th, as […] Continue reading -> Northern India Braces for Toxic Winter Pollution, Despite Improved Delhi Plan 02/10/2026 Jyoti Pande Lavakare Rural farm fires and Diwali fireworks likely to trigger pollution emergencies in northern India during late autumn and early winter, despite the rollout of new pollution control measures in the capital city territory. DELHI, India – As India braces for the winter smog season, Delhi has announced a pollution mitigation plan for the expected peak […] Continue reading -> West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained 02/10/2026 Aseel Mafarjeh ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate blocking the road between Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order 05/10/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen Global health has moved from an area of mutual cooperation to one dominated by “high politics” and division, observed Ilona Kickbusch at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) last Friday (2 October). Leading the closing panel, the founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, highlighted how recent voting at the […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time Since Pandemic Began 02/10/2026 Stefan Anderson COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped the list, according to new World Health Organization estimates released Friday. The virus directly killed an estimated 0.9 million people in 2023, ranking 14th, as […] Continue reading -> Northern India Braces for Toxic Winter Pollution, Despite Improved Delhi Plan 02/10/2026 Jyoti Pande Lavakare Rural farm fires and Diwali fireworks likely to trigger pollution emergencies in northern India during late autumn and early winter, despite the rollout of new pollution control measures in the capital city territory. DELHI, India – As India braces for the winter smog season, Delhi has announced a pollution mitigation plan for the expected peak […] Continue reading -> West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained 02/10/2026 Aseel Mafarjeh ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate blocking the road between Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time Since Pandemic Began 02/10/2026 Stefan Anderson COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped the list, according to new World Health Organization estimates released Friday. The virus directly killed an estimated 0.9 million people in 2023, ranking 14th, as […] Continue reading -> Northern India Braces for Toxic Winter Pollution, Despite Improved Delhi Plan 02/10/2026 Jyoti Pande Lavakare Rural farm fires and Diwali fireworks likely to trigger pollution emergencies in northern India during late autumn and early winter, despite the rollout of new pollution control measures in the capital city territory. DELHI, India – As India braces for the winter smog season, Delhi has announced a pollution mitigation plan for the expected peak […] Continue reading -> West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained 02/10/2026 Aseel Mafarjeh ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate blocking the road between Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Northern India Braces for Toxic Winter Pollution, Despite Improved Delhi Plan 02/10/2026 Jyoti Pande Lavakare Rural farm fires and Diwali fireworks likely to trigger pollution emergencies in northern India during late autumn and early winter, despite the rollout of new pollution control measures in the capital city territory. DELHI, India – As India braces for the winter smog season, Delhi has announced a pollution mitigation plan for the expected peak […] Continue reading -> West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained 02/10/2026 Aseel Mafarjeh ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate blocking the road between Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained 02/10/2026 Aseel Mafarjeh ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate blocking the road between Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts