It’s hard to gauge how much of the world’s attention is focused on the World Health Assembly this week. It does, after all, coincide with the launch of Chapter 5, Season 3 of Fortnite, the popular online…
What would the return of Trump mean for the World Health Organisation?
Few will need reminding that in April 2020 then US President Trump announced he would be suspending payments to the World Health Organisation (WHO). A few weeks later, he threatened to withdraw funding completely and…
Economics and health for all – a new narrative on health and the economy?
I like to think that people reading my posts come away from the experience in awe of the world around them but, mostly, of my creative genius. However, I also recognise that one or both…
Climate change and health. A review of WHO’s commitment to ‘safeguarding the health of the planet’.
With confirmation that 2023 was the warmest year on record (between 1.43-1.48C above preindustrial levels depending on which dataset you use), it’s reassuring to read that the World Health Organisation is starting to take climate…
Global Governance callisthenics – the David Goggins guide to the WHO’s Agile Member States Task Group
Look him up. Below are some thoughts on recent work by WHO’s Agile Member States Task Group on Strengthening WHO’s Budgetary, Programmatic and Financing Governance (something to work on). Yes, yes, I know, not the…
WHO’s Investment Round – this is happening!
Ok, so the report likely none of you have been waiting for is now out! Yes, I’m talking about EB154/29 Rev 1, 21st December 2023, aka Sustainable financing: WHO investment round. Report by the Director-General.…
Whose 14th General Program of Work?
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) General Program of Work (GPW) is the Organisation’s main strategy document that describes its health priorities, strategic objectives, health outputs, and an indicative budget (or ‘financing envelope’) for a multi-year…
WHO’s Financing Mechanism: what, why and for whom?
The 76th World Health Assembly (WHA) is being held next week, which is good news if you’re in the Geneva rental market. Watching the WHA, the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) is coordinating ‘WHA Today’,…
The WHO that “‘we’ need”?
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A paper by Clare Wenham and Sara Davies has just been published in Health Economics, Policy and Law. ‘What’s the ideal World Health Organization(WHO)?’ is a provocative essay about WHO’s mandate, scope, governance, structure, funding…
Does global health really need Richard Horton?
I blame twitter. I’m off it for a couple of years and the day I re-enter the fray, I stumble across “a little twitter spat” (as Politico called it) between the Editor of The Lancet,…