Tag: Global Health

Trump has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization – here’s why that’s sheer hypocrisy

(Devi Sridhar - The Guardian) Donald Trump is persistent. In his first term as president, he withdrew the US from the World Health Organization...
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New U.S. Foreign Aid Emphasis on Government Partnerships is Encouraging — If Done Right

(Sarah Rose and Daphne McCurdy - Just Security) The United States has begun signing bilateral agreements on global health cooperation under the State Department’s...
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Building healthy bridges towards peace: WHO launches $1 billion appeal

(UN News) The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday launched its 2026 global appeal for nearly $1 billion to ensure that millions of people...
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Global health systems ‘at risk’ as funding cuts bite, warns WHO

(UN News) The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday that cuts to international aid and persistent funding gaps are undermining the global...
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Emerging Fault Lines in Global Health to Guard Against in 2026 (Lakshmy Ramakrishnan – Observer Research Foundation)

Global health underwent a tumultuous journey in 2025 with the anticipated United States (US) withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), the disassembly of...
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Nations adopt historic pledge to guard against future pandemics (UN News)

After three years of negotiations sparked by the COVID-19 crisis, countries have adopted the world’s first-ever international agreement to better prevent, prepare for, and...
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Ending the Permanent Respiratory Disease Pandemic (Leith Greenslade, Project-Syndicate)

COVID-19 has exposed the limited ability of health systems around the world to cope with a pandemic of respiratory infection. With the official death count from...
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The Economy that Planetary Health Requires (Renzo Guinto, Project-Syndicate)

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, analysts and pundits spun visions of how the crisis would reshape the global economy. Many heralded the opportunity...
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Global Health. Noncommunicable Diseases Kill Slowly in Normal Times and Quickly in COVID-19 Times (Thomas J. Bollyky, Serena Tohme, Samantha Kiernan, CFR)

Ten years ago, Captain America and The Hangover Part II were kings of the summer movie box office, Occupy Wall Street protestors were flooding into Zuccotti Park in lower...
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Global Health – How can the world end viral hepatitis by 2030? 5 experts explain (WEF)

Matthew Oliver writes: More than 1.1 million people die from hepatitis B and C every year. An estimated 296 million people worldwide are living with hepatitis B, but...
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Global Health – Send vaccines where people want them: developing nations (Yale News, WEF)

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak writes: In the United States, where COVID-19 vaccines are plentiful, the biggest remaining obstacle to protecting the population is vaccine hesitancy....
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Global Health – Bridging Health’s Racial Divide (Project-Syndicate)

JEANNE MOUTOUSSAMY-ASHE, WAYNE C. KOFF write for Project-Syndicate: The world is poised to make transformative advances in disease prevention and control over the coming decades....
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Global Health – Primary health care needs to be fit for the post COVID world – how do we do that? (Muhammad Ali Pate,...

As a physician, I know firsthand the important role that primary health care plays in the health of individuals, families, and communities. When it...
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Global Health – Humans may have suffered a large coronavirus outbreak before Covid. Here’s what our DNA can tell us (Yassine Souilmi, Ray Tobler,...

A coronavirus may have swept across East Asia more than 20,000 years ago. New research has found evidence of genetic adaptation to the...
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Global Health/Future of Food/SGD03 – Food meets health: How a new approach to metabolic health could tackle chronic disease (Sir Mohammad Jaafar, WEF)

Chronic disease driven by processed food provided the backdrop for COVID-19 to spiral out of control. Fundamental and structural changes are needed in...
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Global Health/Ageing – Bye, bye, baby? Birthrates are declining globally – here’s why it matters (Darrell Bricker, WEF)

Birthrates are falling globally. In many countries, COVID-19 has suppressed population growth by causing a decline in births, migration and life expectancy. Even...
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