Writing about global health and climate change
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…
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,…
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 $.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
[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…