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,…
WHO’s program budget 2024-25 – base segment nil point
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 $.…
A replenishment mechanism for WHO?
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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…
Framing health systems or health systems for frames? A reply to Marten et al
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…
Sunflowers
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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…
World mental health day
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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…
Sustainably financing the World Health Organisation, part two
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
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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…