Anders Nordström is a busy little bee, isn’t he. His output in 2026 has been, how might one put it, excessive. February was just the start. You’ll recall, I’m sure, his classic Comment in The…
A WHO worth fighting for?
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If the World Health Organisation’s only defender was Anders Nordström, then it would be fucked already. Thankfully, that’s not the case. Despite sounding like a Bond villain, Nordström is in fact – or was –…
Everything starts with an E…B158
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Yes, it’s that time of year again: who cares if Trump is now President of Venezuela, we have the 158th meeting of the World Health Organisations’ Executive Board to distract us! I dream of the…
Life in ADHD
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One of the advantages of velux windows that is rarely (never) mentioned in the brochures is that they don’t just function as windows; they also function as doors. Which is great if you’re a teenager…
The global health community needs to wake up and fight back against the Trump administration.
As with previous years, 2026 began with a flourish of pyrotechnics. But in a deviation from the norm, this year those pyrotechnics were less fireworksy and more coupsy in nature. Obviously, I’m talking about the…
Does global health have a future? Some reflections on the present.
Quite out of the blue, I was contacted a couple of weeks back by the Secretary-General of the Swiss Association for Science Journalism who invited me to deliver a keynote speech at the Association’s yearly ‘Fall…
The America Farce Global Health Strategy. Or, why the United States is not the world’s global health leader.
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.
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…