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…
Sustainably financing the World Health Organisation, part one
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…
Climate change, indigenous communities and health
[This short post first appeared on International Health Policies on 18th November] I am, of course, referring to the People’s Health Hearing: Health Justice means Climate Justice that convened on Sunday 7th November, and which can be viewed on YouTube…
Week one of COP26: some reflections
To be honest, I didn’t expect to see a Formula One racing car on display in the Blue Zone. But there it was, all shiny black, signalling that thanks to EV technology nothing is going…
What does the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment WG1 Report warn us about the health impacts of global warming?
Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in September. Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis is the most comprehensive assessment of “new scientific…
The NDC is dead; long live the NZT?
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It’s all but impossible to keep up with the number of reports on climate change, even those published just this month. Close on the heels of the IPCC WG1 report, three noteworthy publications came out…
COP26: some initial reflections on its aims
COP26 is taking place in Glasgow from 31st October to the 12th November. The UK government, which is co-hosting the event with Italy, has produced an explainer – read it carefully because, as COP 26…
WHO cares? A reply to Calvert and Arbuthnott
WHO cares? Well, yes, WHO – the World Health Organisation – does actually care. It cares a lot about a lot of things – all of which are beneficial to my, yours, everyone’s health on…
Are we still talking about globalisation and health?
Do you remember that Special Theme Issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization back in 2001? Yes, the one on globalisation and health. Well, it’s celebrating its twentieth birthday this year. How time…
The road to hell, and back again
You know the cartoon I mean? It’s the one with the IPCC scientist standing at the front of an auditorium in 1990 warning that “this climate change thing could be a problem” and becoming increasingly…