WHO Member States Should Treat Fossil Fuels like Tobacco – as a Public Health Threat 15/05/2026 Jeni Miller Just as health leaders reframed tobacco from a consumer product to a public health threat, they can now help shift the narrative on fossil fuels. In the coming days, the annual World Health Assembly will convene in Geneva. Following the recent Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, national health ministers and global health […] Continue reading -> Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> EU Announces Bold Global Health Resilience Initiative Amidst Geopolitical Ruptures 13/05/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen The European Commission announced its long-awaited Global Health Resilience Initiative on Wednesday. While the policy roadmap aims to support partner countries’ transition toward health sovereignty amid historic aid cuts and shifting geopolitical realities, critics are concerned about its heavy reliance on private funding. As global health gains face a severe threat of reversal from stagnating […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Nurses Are Not a Cost to Health Systems. They Are the Power Holding Them Together. 12/05/2026 Howard Catton Recently, I met with African nursing leaders who told me stories of nurses in countries such as Ghana and Nigeria earning the equivalent of only a few hundred US dollars a month – sometimes less than $300 – while being offered opportunities abroad with salaries many times higher. They described a growing crisis, where nurses […] Continue reading -> African Leaders Declare End of Aid Era at Nairobi World Health Summit, But The Data Tell a More Complicated Story 29/04/2026 Stefan Anderson African leaders opened the World Health Summit Regional Meeting at the United Nations complex in Nairobi this week with a unified declaration that two decades of dependence on foreign aid for health is over. “The challenge that I see is that many of the leaders in our continent believe that it is somebody else’s responsibility. […] Continue reading -> Call for US Congressional Oversight on Bilateral Health Agreements 15/04/2026 Kerry Cullinan The US Congress needs to exercise oversight over the bilateral global health agreements that the United States has reached with 30 low- and middle-income countries, relative to the 2025 congressional budget, as they represent a decrease of around a third in allocated spending. Mark Lagon of the Friends of the Global Fight against AIDS, TB […] Continue reading -> Brain Matters: Equity in the Age of Cognitive Health 06/04/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher DAVOS – In this snow-covered Alpine town where the world’s rich, powerful and elite met in January for the World Economic Forum, a quiet but consequential shift in thinking about dementia research crystallized – one with the potential to shape political engagements and research investments for the coming decade. Long treated as a disease primarily […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Cervical Cancer is a Global Health Equity Challenge 01/04/2026 Caroline Bwanali-Mussa, Haileyesus Getahun, Antje Leendertse & Leslie Ramsammy Cervical cancer should no longer be killing women. It is one of the few cancers that we already know how to prevent, detect early, and treat effectively. Yet it remains the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, causing around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year. The tragedy is not just the scale […] Continue reading -> Two-Speed Multilateralism: Breaking the Deadlock on Climate and Health 31/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen From stalled Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) negotiations to failing consensus in global climate policies, United Nations structures face a profound crisis. Diplomats are currently being forced to explore alternative governance models to bridge the disconnect between sluggish, power-driven diplomacy and the rapid, equitable action required in health and climate crises. This institutional rupture […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> EU Announces Bold Global Health Resilience Initiative Amidst Geopolitical Ruptures 13/05/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen The European Commission announced its long-awaited Global Health Resilience Initiative on Wednesday. While the policy roadmap aims to support partner countries’ transition toward health sovereignty amid historic aid cuts and shifting geopolitical realities, critics are concerned about its heavy reliance on private funding. As global health gains face a severe threat of reversal from stagnating […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Nurses Are Not a Cost to Health Systems. They Are the Power Holding Them Together. 12/05/2026 Howard Catton Recently, I met with African nursing leaders who told me stories of nurses in countries such as Ghana and Nigeria earning the equivalent of only a few hundred US dollars a month – sometimes less than $300 – while being offered opportunities abroad with salaries many times higher. They described a growing crisis, where nurses […] Continue reading -> African Leaders Declare End of Aid Era at Nairobi World Health Summit, But The Data Tell a More Complicated Story 29/04/2026 Stefan Anderson African leaders opened the World Health Summit Regional Meeting at the United Nations complex in Nairobi this week with a unified declaration that two decades of dependence on foreign aid for health is over. “The challenge that I see is that many of the leaders in our continent believe that it is somebody else’s responsibility. […] Continue reading -> Call for US Congressional Oversight on Bilateral Health Agreements 15/04/2026 Kerry Cullinan The US Congress needs to exercise oversight over the bilateral global health agreements that the United States has reached with 30 low- and middle-income countries, relative to the 2025 congressional budget, as they represent a decrease of around a third in allocated spending. Mark Lagon of the Friends of the Global Fight against AIDS, TB […] Continue reading -> Brain Matters: Equity in the Age of Cognitive Health 06/04/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher DAVOS – In this snow-covered Alpine town where the world’s rich, powerful and elite met in January for the World Economic Forum, a quiet but consequential shift in thinking about dementia research crystallized – one with the potential to shape political engagements and research investments for the coming decade. Long treated as a disease primarily […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Cervical Cancer is a Global Health Equity Challenge 01/04/2026 Caroline Bwanali-Mussa, Haileyesus Getahun, Antje Leendertse & Leslie Ramsammy Cervical cancer should no longer be killing women. It is one of the few cancers that we already know how to prevent, detect early, and treat effectively. Yet it remains the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, causing around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year. The tragedy is not just the scale […] Continue reading -> Two-Speed Multilateralism: Breaking the Deadlock on Climate and Health 31/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen From stalled Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) negotiations to failing consensus in global climate policies, United Nations structures face a profound crisis. Diplomats are currently being forced to explore alternative governance models to bridge the disconnect between sluggish, power-driven diplomacy and the rapid, equitable action required in health and climate crises. This institutional rupture […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
EU Announces Bold Global Health Resilience Initiative Amidst Geopolitical Ruptures 13/05/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen The European Commission announced its long-awaited Global Health Resilience Initiative on Wednesday. While the policy roadmap aims to support partner countries’ transition toward health sovereignty amid historic aid cuts and shifting geopolitical realities, critics are concerned about its heavy reliance on private funding. As global health gains face a severe threat of reversal from stagnating […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Nurses Are Not a Cost to Health Systems. They Are the Power Holding Them Together. 12/05/2026 Howard Catton Recently, I met with African nursing leaders who told me stories of nurses in countries such as Ghana and Nigeria earning the equivalent of only a few hundred US dollars a month – sometimes less than $300 – while being offered opportunities abroad with salaries many times higher. They described a growing crisis, where nurses […] Continue reading -> African Leaders Declare End of Aid Era at Nairobi World Health Summit, But The Data Tell a More Complicated Story 29/04/2026 Stefan Anderson African leaders opened the World Health Summit Regional Meeting at the United Nations complex in Nairobi this week with a unified declaration that two decades of dependence on foreign aid for health is over. “The challenge that I see is that many of the leaders in our continent believe that it is somebody else’s responsibility. […] Continue reading -> Call for US Congressional Oversight on Bilateral Health Agreements 15/04/2026 Kerry Cullinan The US Congress needs to exercise oversight over the bilateral global health agreements that the United States has reached with 30 low- and middle-income countries, relative to the 2025 congressional budget, as they represent a decrease of around a third in allocated spending. Mark Lagon of the Friends of the Global Fight against AIDS, TB […] Continue reading -> Brain Matters: Equity in the Age of Cognitive Health 06/04/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher DAVOS – In this snow-covered Alpine town where the world’s rich, powerful and elite met in January for the World Economic Forum, a quiet but consequential shift in thinking about dementia research crystallized – one with the potential to shape political engagements and research investments for the coming decade. Long treated as a disease primarily […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Cervical Cancer is a Global Health Equity Challenge 01/04/2026 Caroline Bwanali-Mussa, Haileyesus Getahun, Antje Leendertse & Leslie Ramsammy Cervical cancer should no longer be killing women. It is one of the few cancers that we already know how to prevent, detect early, and treat effectively. Yet it remains the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, causing around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year. The tragedy is not just the scale […] Continue reading -> Two-Speed Multilateralism: Breaking the Deadlock on Climate and Health 31/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen From stalled Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) negotiations to failing consensus in global climate policies, United Nations structures face a profound crisis. Diplomats are currently being forced to explore alternative governance models to bridge the disconnect between sluggish, power-driven diplomacy and the rapid, equitable action required in health and climate crises. This institutional rupture […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Nurses Are Not a Cost to Health Systems. They Are the Power Holding Them Together. 12/05/2026 Howard Catton Recently, I met with African nursing leaders who told me stories of nurses in countries such as Ghana and Nigeria earning the equivalent of only a few hundred US dollars a month – sometimes less than $300 – while being offered opportunities abroad with salaries many times higher. They described a growing crisis, where nurses […] Continue reading -> African Leaders Declare End of Aid Era at Nairobi World Health Summit, But The Data Tell a More Complicated Story 29/04/2026 Stefan Anderson African leaders opened the World Health Summit Regional Meeting at the United Nations complex in Nairobi this week with a unified declaration that two decades of dependence on foreign aid for health is over. “The challenge that I see is that many of the leaders in our continent believe that it is somebody else’s responsibility. […] Continue reading -> Call for US Congressional Oversight on Bilateral Health Agreements 15/04/2026 Kerry Cullinan The US Congress needs to exercise oversight over the bilateral global health agreements that the United States has reached with 30 low- and middle-income countries, relative to the 2025 congressional budget, as they represent a decrease of around a third in allocated spending. Mark Lagon of the Friends of the Global Fight against AIDS, TB […] Continue reading -> Brain Matters: Equity in the Age of Cognitive Health 06/04/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher DAVOS – In this snow-covered Alpine town where the world’s rich, powerful and elite met in January for the World Economic Forum, a quiet but consequential shift in thinking about dementia research crystallized – one with the potential to shape political engagements and research investments for the coming decade. Long treated as a disease primarily […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Cervical Cancer is a Global Health Equity Challenge 01/04/2026 Caroline Bwanali-Mussa, Haileyesus Getahun, Antje Leendertse & Leslie Ramsammy Cervical cancer should no longer be killing women. It is one of the few cancers that we already know how to prevent, detect early, and treat effectively. Yet it remains the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, causing around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year. The tragedy is not just the scale […] Continue reading -> Two-Speed Multilateralism: Breaking the Deadlock on Climate and Health 31/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen From stalled Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) negotiations to failing consensus in global climate policies, United Nations structures face a profound crisis. Diplomats are currently being forced to explore alternative governance models to bridge the disconnect between sluggish, power-driven diplomacy and the rapid, equitable action required in health and climate crises. This institutional rupture […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Nurses Are Not a Cost to Health Systems. They Are the Power Holding Them Together. 12/05/2026 Howard Catton Recently, I met with African nursing leaders who told me stories of nurses in countries such as Ghana and Nigeria earning the equivalent of only a few hundred US dollars a month – sometimes less than $300 – while being offered opportunities abroad with salaries many times higher. They described a growing crisis, where nurses […] Continue reading -> African Leaders Declare End of Aid Era at Nairobi World Health Summit, But The Data Tell a More Complicated Story 29/04/2026 Stefan Anderson African leaders opened the World Health Summit Regional Meeting at the United Nations complex in Nairobi this week with a unified declaration that two decades of dependence on foreign aid for health is over. “The challenge that I see is that many of the leaders in our continent believe that it is somebody else’s responsibility. […] Continue reading -> Call for US Congressional Oversight on Bilateral Health Agreements 15/04/2026 Kerry Cullinan The US Congress needs to exercise oversight over the bilateral global health agreements that the United States has reached with 30 low- and middle-income countries, relative to the 2025 congressional budget, as they represent a decrease of around a third in allocated spending. Mark Lagon of the Friends of the Global Fight against AIDS, TB […] Continue reading -> Brain Matters: Equity in the Age of Cognitive Health 06/04/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher DAVOS – In this snow-covered Alpine town where the world’s rich, powerful and elite met in January for the World Economic Forum, a quiet but consequential shift in thinking about dementia research crystallized – one with the potential to shape political engagements and research investments for the coming decade. Long treated as a disease primarily […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Cervical Cancer is a Global Health Equity Challenge 01/04/2026 Caroline Bwanali-Mussa, Haileyesus Getahun, Antje Leendertse & Leslie Ramsammy Cervical cancer should no longer be killing women. It is one of the few cancers that we already know how to prevent, detect early, and treat effectively. Yet it remains the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, causing around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year. The tragedy is not just the scale […] Continue reading -> Two-Speed Multilateralism: Breaking the Deadlock on Climate and Health 31/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen From stalled Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) negotiations to failing consensus in global climate policies, United Nations structures face a profound crisis. Diplomats are currently being forced to explore alternative governance models to bridge the disconnect between sluggish, power-driven diplomacy and the rapid, equitable action required in health and climate crises. This institutional rupture […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
African Leaders Declare End of Aid Era at Nairobi World Health Summit, But The Data Tell a More Complicated Story 29/04/2026 Stefan Anderson African leaders opened the World Health Summit Regional Meeting at the United Nations complex in Nairobi this week with a unified declaration that two decades of dependence on foreign aid for health is over. “The challenge that I see is that many of the leaders in our continent believe that it is somebody else’s responsibility. […] Continue reading -> Call for US Congressional Oversight on Bilateral Health Agreements 15/04/2026 Kerry Cullinan The US Congress needs to exercise oversight over the bilateral global health agreements that the United States has reached with 30 low- and middle-income countries, relative to the 2025 congressional budget, as they represent a decrease of around a third in allocated spending. Mark Lagon of the Friends of the Global Fight against AIDS, TB […] Continue reading -> Brain Matters: Equity in the Age of Cognitive Health 06/04/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher DAVOS – In this snow-covered Alpine town where the world’s rich, powerful and elite met in January for the World Economic Forum, a quiet but consequential shift in thinking about dementia research crystallized – one with the potential to shape political engagements and research investments for the coming decade. Long treated as a disease primarily […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Cervical Cancer is a Global Health Equity Challenge 01/04/2026 Caroline Bwanali-Mussa, Haileyesus Getahun, Antje Leendertse & Leslie Ramsammy Cervical cancer should no longer be killing women. It is one of the few cancers that we already know how to prevent, detect early, and treat effectively. Yet it remains the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, causing around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year. The tragedy is not just the scale […] Continue reading -> Two-Speed Multilateralism: Breaking the Deadlock on Climate and Health 31/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen From stalled Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) negotiations to failing consensus in global climate policies, United Nations structures face a profound crisis. Diplomats are currently being forced to explore alternative governance models to bridge the disconnect between sluggish, power-driven diplomacy and the rapid, equitable action required in health and climate crises. This institutional rupture […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Call for US Congressional Oversight on Bilateral Health Agreements 15/04/2026 Kerry Cullinan The US Congress needs to exercise oversight over the bilateral global health agreements that the United States has reached with 30 low- and middle-income countries, relative to the 2025 congressional budget, as they represent a decrease of around a third in allocated spending. Mark Lagon of the Friends of the Global Fight against AIDS, TB […] Continue reading -> Brain Matters: Equity in the Age of Cognitive Health 06/04/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher DAVOS – In this snow-covered Alpine town where the world’s rich, powerful and elite met in January for the World Economic Forum, a quiet but consequential shift in thinking about dementia research crystallized – one with the potential to shape political engagements and research investments for the coming decade. Long treated as a disease primarily […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Cervical Cancer is a Global Health Equity Challenge 01/04/2026 Caroline Bwanali-Mussa, Haileyesus Getahun, Antje Leendertse & Leslie Ramsammy Cervical cancer should no longer be killing women. It is one of the few cancers that we already know how to prevent, detect early, and treat effectively. Yet it remains the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, causing around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year. The tragedy is not just the scale […] Continue reading -> Two-Speed Multilateralism: Breaking the Deadlock on Climate and Health 31/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen From stalled Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) negotiations to failing consensus in global climate policies, United Nations structures face a profound crisis. Diplomats are currently being forced to explore alternative governance models to bridge the disconnect between sluggish, power-driven diplomacy and the rapid, equitable action required in health and climate crises. This institutional rupture […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Brain Matters: Equity in the Age of Cognitive Health 06/04/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher DAVOS – In this snow-covered Alpine town where the world’s rich, powerful and elite met in January for the World Economic Forum, a quiet but consequential shift in thinking about dementia research crystallized – one with the potential to shape political engagements and research investments for the coming decade. Long treated as a disease primarily […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Cervical Cancer is a Global Health Equity Challenge 01/04/2026 Caroline Bwanali-Mussa, Haileyesus Getahun, Antje Leendertse & Leslie Ramsammy Cervical cancer should no longer be killing women. It is one of the few cancers that we already know how to prevent, detect early, and treat effectively. Yet it remains the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, causing around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year. The tragedy is not just the scale […] Continue reading -> Two-Speed Multilateralism: Breaking the Deadlock on Climate and Health 31/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen From stalled Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) negotiations to failing consensus in global climate policies, United Nations structures face a profound crisis. Diplomats are currently being forced to explore alternative governance models to bridge the disconnect between sluggish, power-driven diplomacy and the rapid, equitable action required in health and climate crises. This institutional rupture […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Eliminating Cervical Cancer is a Global Health Equity Challenge 01/04/2026 Caroline Bwanali-Mussa, Haileyesus Getahun, Antje Leendertse & Leslie Ramsammy Cervical cancer should no longer be killing women. It is one of the few cancers that we already know how to prevent, detect early, and treat effectively. Yet it remains the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, causing around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year. The tragedy is not just the scale […] Continue reading -> Two-Speed Multilateralism: Breaking the Deadlock on Climate and Health 31/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen From stalled Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) negotiations to failing consensus in global climate policies, United Nations structures face a profound crisis. Diplomats are currently being forced to explore alternative governance models to bridge the disconnect between sluggish, power-driven diplomacy and the rapid, equitable action required in health and climate crises. This institutional rupture […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Two-Speed Multilateralism: Breaking the Deadlock on Climate and Health 31/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen From stalled Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) negotiations to failing consensus in global climate policies, United Nations structures face a profound crisis. Diplomats are currently being forced to explore alternative governance models to bridge the disconnect between sluggish, power-driven diplomacy and the rapid, equitable action required in health and climate crises. This institutional rupture […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts