Is there any point in writing about this farce of a strategy? Not really. I mean, for me sure because it’s cathartic. Writing blogposts is far less painful than punching a wall or myself in…
Rethinking the role of the WHO in a transformed global health order: A reply to Kickbusch, Kazatchkine and Piot.
Ilona Kickbusch, Michel Kazatchkine and Peter Piot have written a new Guest Essay over on Geneva Health Files in which they have a bit of a rethink about the role of the WHO in a…
Defunding global health: What a weakened WHO means for the world.
This is the title of a webinar I’m talking at on Wednesday 16 July hosted by PHM, TWN and G2H2. You can register here. The general focus of the webinar is to explore the consequences…
Mind the gap! Tracking WHO funding.
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It’s not an easy task tracking WHO funding, especially this year with the fallout from Trump withdrawing his support. I find that the best way to make sense of it all is to write about…
WHA 78 – a ‘crossroads’ for global health?
Only joking! I hate that stupid metaphor. Only amateurs use it in their writing – begone amateurs. Be. Gone. Anyway, where were we? Oh yes, it’s World Health Assembly time, a time when delegates from…
The WHO is an institution you should care about and take its side.
You will have seen some reporting this week on the dismal state of WHO financing. In particular, two reports from Health Policy Watch’s Elaine Fletcher (here and here) and one from Priti Patnaik over at…
EB156: So, what next for WHO financing?
…I asked Steve, the guy behind the counter at my local newsagents. For someone who lives on the Welsh borders, Steve is surprisingly well informed about global health diplomacy in Geneva. Steve: What Senegal said.…
EB156: WHO needs to be braver than ever
The fact that I am from Barbados, one of the WHO’s smallest Member States, sends a signal as to how important the WHO and global public health is to my small island state. Multilateralism and…
WHO needs Trump?
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The fallout of the second Trump/Republican administration is now being felt, not just in global health but also public health and health-adjacent meta-challenges such as climate change. Trump appears determined to dismantle the international order…
Could the World Health Organisation survive if Trump stopped funding it?
The hypothetical scenario of a second Trump presidency becomes a reality in January and there’s already talk in Trump’s transition team of a withdrawal from WHO ‘on day one’. This is just talk for the…