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WHO’s Financing Mechanism: what, why and for whom?

  • Posted on May 18, 2023May 25, 2023
  • by andrew
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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’,…

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The WHO that “‘we’ need”?

  • Posted on April 29, 2023May 1, 2023
  • by andrew
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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…

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Does global health really need Richard Horton?

  • Posted on February 25, 2023March 2, 2023
  • by andrew
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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,…

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WHO’s program budget 2024-25 – base segment nil point

  • Posted on January 24, 2023January 25, 2023
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If you’ve been reading the budget documentation prepared for WHO’s Executive Board meeting next week, you may have noticed that the base segment of WHO’s 2024-25 program budget will be increasing by precisely no $.…

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A replenishment mechanism for WHO?

  • Posted on January 22, 2023January 23, 2023
  • by andrew
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The 152nd meeting of WHO’s Executive Board is likely to be one of the most important in recent years. From a financing point of view, the Board will be considering a Report of the Agile Member…

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Health Systems

Framing health systems or health systems for frames? A reply to Marten et al

  • Posted on December 21, 2022May 1, 2023
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It’s a common literary device, switching parts of a phrase about. There’s even a word for it – antimetabole. A well-known example which I think has its origins in women and child health is “more…

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Activism

Sunflowers

  • Posted on October 15, 2022November 16, 2022
  • by andrew
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Van Gogh was 35 when he painted the Sunflowers, which is currently residing in The National Gallery, London (the gallery bought the painting in 1987 for $40m). If you earn twice the average UK salary…

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Mental health

World mental health day

  • Posted on August 18, 2022October 31, 2022
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One of the worst aspects of depression is the ability to watch yourself disappear, unable to act in self-defense. Barbra Jago, 2002 It’s World Mental Health Day on the 10th October. I’m going to write…

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Sustainably financing the World Health Organisation, part two

  • Posted on May 20, 2022June 27, 2022
  • by andrew
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Hold onto your seats folks because the 75th World Health Assembly is about to convene! Health Ministers (and billionaires, CEOs, NGOs, CSOs, etc) of the world converge in Geneva next week to review and approve/contest…

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Sustainably financing the World Health Organisation, part one

  • Posted on January 22, 2022May 20, 2022
  • by andrew
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The Executive Board of the World Health Organisation is meeting next week. One of the agenda items is sustainable financing of the Organisation. ‘Sustainable’ in this context refers less to the well-known reality that WHO’s…

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