Wildfire Smoke: The Health Emergency That Urgently Needs a Seat at the Climate Table 25/06/2026 Angela Churie Kallhauge As Europe sweats through the hottest week on record for June, the continent faces the looming spectre of wildfires – just one year after last year’s deadly events in Turkiye and Southern Europe. But wildfire season is no longer episodic. It has evolved into a year-long threat, fueled by a warmer climate and its side […] Continue reading -> How Ghana Slashed Child Malaria Deaths by 86% 23/06/2026 Selorm Kutsoati For decades, malaria has been one of Africa’s most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed nets and antimalarial drugs reduced deaths substantially, but by the mid-2010s, the pace of improvement had declined. Climate change was altering the length and intensity of transmission seasons. […] Continue reading -> Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Despite Delays, Negotiations Over Critical PABS Annex to WHO Pandemic Treaty Reveal Signs of Progress; Here’s Why 17/06/2026 Suerie Moon, Adam Strobeyko, Daniela Morich & Gian Luca Burci What’s left to tackle in the PABS talks? As the clock ran out, and then was extended for another year, on negotiations over the Pandemic Agreement’s Annex on Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS), the diplomacy and the nitty-gritty of the issues faced were deeply linked This edition of the Governing Pandemics Snapshot of the Geneva […] Continue reading -> From Margin to Mainstream: Why Liver Health Should Sit at the Centre of the Global NCD Response 26/05/2026 Jeffrey Lazarus The 79th World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD) last week. For those people working outside hepatology, the moment may have seemed unremarkable. In reality, it marks an important shift in how the global health community understands chronic disease, metabolic health and prevention. SLD affects an estimated 1.7 billion people […] Continue reading -> WHO Member States Should Treat Fossil Fuels like Tobacco – as a Public Health Threat 15/05/2026 Jeni Miller Just as health leaders reframed tobacco from a consumer product to a public health threat, they can now help shift the narrative on fossil fuels. In the coming days, the annual World Health Assembly will convene in Geneva. Following the recent Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, national health ministers and global health […] Continue reading -> Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
How Ghana Slashed Child Malaria Deaths by 86% 23/06/2026 Selorm Kutsoati For decades, malaria has been one of Africa’s most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed nets and antimalarial drugs reduced deaths substantially, but by the mid-2010s, the pace of improvement had declined. Climate change was altering the length and intensity of transmission seasons. […] Continue reading -> Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Despite Delays, Negotiations Over Critical PABS Annex to WHO Pandemic Treaty Reveal Signs of Progress; Here’s Why 17/06/2026 Suerie Moon, Adam Strobeyko, Daniela Morich & Gian Luca Burci What’s left to tackle in the PABS talks? As the clock ran out, and then was extended for another year, on negotiations over the Pandemic Agreement’s Annex on Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS), the diplomacy and the nitty-gritty of the issues faced were deeply linked This edition of the Governing Pandemics Snapshot of the Geneva […] Continue reading -> From Margin to Mainstream: Why Liver Health Should Sit at the Centre of the Global NCD Response 26/05/2026 Jeffrey Lazarus The 79th World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD) last week. For those people working outside hepatology, the moment may have seemed unremarkable. In reality, it marks an important shift in how the global health community understands chronic disease, metabolic health and prevention. SLD affects an estimated 1.7 billion people […] Continue reading -> WHO Member States Should Treat Fossil Fuels like Tobacco – as a Public Health Threat 15/05/2026 Jeni Miller Just as health leaders reframed tobacco from a consumer product to a public health threat, they can now help shift the narrative on fossil fuels. In the coming days, the annual World Health Assembly will convene in Geneva. Following the recent Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, national health ministers and global health […] Continue reading -> Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Despite Delays, Negotiations Over Critical PABS Annex to WHO Pandemic Treaty Reveal Signs of Progress; Here’s Why 17/06/2026 Suerie Moon, Adam Strobeyko, Daniela Morich & Gian Luca Burci What’s left to tackle in the PABS talks? As the clock ran out, and then was extended for another year, on negotiations over the Pandemic Agreement’s Annex on Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS), the diplomacy and the nitty-gritty of the issues faced were deeply linked This edition of the Governing Pandemics Snapshot of the Geneva […] Continue reading -> From Margin to Mainstream: Why Liver Health Should Sit at the Centre of the Global NCD Response 26/05/2026 Jeffrey Lazarus The 79th World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD) last week. For those people working outside hepatology, the moment may have seemed unremarkable. In reality, it marks an important shift in how the global health community understands chronic disease, metabolic health and prevention. SLD affects an estimated 1.7 billion people […] Continue reading -> WHO Member States Should Treat Fossil Fuels like Tobacco – as a Public Health Threat 15/05/2026 Jeni Miller Just as health leaders reframed tobacco from a consumer product to a public health threat, they can now help shift the narrative on fossil fuels. In the coming days, the annual World Health Assembly will convene in Geneva. Following the recent Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, national health ministers and global health […] Continue reading -> Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Despite Delays, Negotiations Over Critical PABS Annex to WHO Pandemic Treaty Reveal Signs of Progress; Here’s Why 17/06/2026 Suerie Moon, Adam Strobeyko, Daniela Morich & Gian Luca Burci What’s left to tackle in the PABS talks? As the clock ran out, and then was extended for another year, on negotiations over the Pandemic Agreement’s Annex on Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS), the diplomacy and the nitty-gritty of the issues faced were deeply linked This edition of the Governing Pandemics Snapshot of the Geneva […] Continue reading -> From Margin to Mainstream: Why Liver Health Should Sit at the Centre of the Global NCD Response 26/05/2026 Jeffrey Lazarus The 79th World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD) last week. For those people working outside hepatology, the moment may have seemed unremarkable. In reality, it marks an important shift in how the global health community understands chronic disease, metabolic health and prevention. SLD affects an estimated 1.7 billion people […] Continue reading -> WHO Member States Should Treat Fossil Fuels like Tobacco – as a Public Health Threat 15/05/2026 Jeni Miller Just as health leaders reframed tobacco from a consumer product to a public health threat, they can now help shift the narrative on fossil fuels. In the coming days, the annual World Health Assembly will convene in Geneva. Following the recent Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, national health ministers and global health […] Continue reading -> Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Despite Delays, Negotiations Over Critical PABS Annex to WHO Pandemic Treaty Reveal Signs of Progress; Here’s Why 17/06/2026 Suerie Moon, Adam Strobeyko, Daniela Morich & Gian Luca Burci What’s left to tackle in the PABS talks? As the clock ran out, and then was extended for another year, on negotiations over the Pandemic Agreement’s Annex on Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS), the diplomacy and the nitty-gritty of the issues faced were deeply linked This edition of the Governing Pandemics Snapshot of the Geneva […] Continue reading -> From Margin to Mainstream: Why Liver Health Should Sit at the Centre of the Global NCD Response 26/05/2026 Jeffrey Lazarus The 79th World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD) last week. For those people working outside hepatology, the moment may have seemed unremarkable. In reality, it marks an important shift in how the global health community understands chronic disease, metabolic health and prevention. SLD affects an estimated 1.7 billion people […] Continue reading -> WHO Member States Should Treat Fossil Fuels like Tobacco – as a Public Health Threat 15/05/2026 Jeni Miller Just as health leaders reframed tobacco from a consumer product to a public health threat, they can now help shift the narrative on fossil fuels. In the coming days, the annual World Health Assembly will convene in Geneva. Following the recent Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, national health ministers and global health […] Continue reading -> Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Despite Delays, Negotiations Over Critical PABS Annex to WHO Pandemic Treaty Reveal Signs of Progress; Here’s Why 17/06/2026 Suerie Moon, Adam Strobeyko, Daniela Morich & Gian Luca Burci What’s left to tackle in the PABS talks? As the clock ran out, and then was extended for another year, on negotiations over the Pandemic Agreement’s Annex on Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS), the diplomacy and the nitty-gritty of the issues faced were deeply linked This edition of the Governing Pandemics Snapshot of the Geneva […] Continue reading -> From Margin to Mainstream: Why Liver Health Should Sit at the Centre of the Global NCD Response 26/05/2026 Jeffrey Lazarus The 79th World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD) last week. For those people working outside hepatology, the moment may have seemed unremarkable. In reality, it marks an important shift in how the global health community understands chronic disease, metabolic health and prevention. SLD affects an estimated 1.7 billion people […] Continue reading -> WHO Member States Should Treat Fossil Fuels like Tobacco – as a Public Health Threat 15/05/2026 Jeni Miller Just as health leaders reframed tobacco from a consumer product to a public health threat, they can now help shift the narrative on fossil fuels. In the coming days, the annual World Health Assembly will convene in Geneva. Following the recent Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, national health ministers and global health […] Continue reading -> Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
From Margin to Mainstream: Why Liver Health Should Sit at the Centre of the Global NCD Response 26/05/2026 Jeffrey Lazarus The 79th World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD) last week. For those people working outside hepatology, the moment may have seemed unremarkable. In reality, it marks an important shift in how the global health community understands chronic disease, metabolic health and prevention. SLD affects an estimated 1.7 billion people […] Continue reading -> WHO Member States Should Treat Fossil Fuels like Tobacco – as a Public Health Threat 15/05/2026 Jeni Miller Just as health leaders reframed tobacco from a consumer product to a public health threat, they can now help shift the narrative on fossil fuels. In the coming days, the annual World Health Assembly will convene in Geneva. Following the recent Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, national health ministers and global health […] Continue reading -> Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
WHO Member States Should Treat Fossil Fuels like Tobacco – as a Public Health Threat 15/05/2026 Jeni Miller Just as health leaders reframed tobacco from a consumer product to a public health threat, they can now help shift the narrative on fossil fuels. In the coming days, the annual World Health Assembly will convene in Geneva. Following the recent Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, national health ministers and global health […] Continue reading -> Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Global Health Needs More than Money – Philanthropy Can Amplify Impacts 14/05/2026 Anil Soni Philanthropy can help make every dollar deliver more impact. I often think about a boy I met in Kajiado County, Kenya. He was the same age as my son, but half his weight. A World Health Organization (WHO) colleague measured the circumference of his arm to confirm what was already painfully clear: he was severely […] Continue reading -> WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage the Compass for Global Health Architecture Reform 13/05/2026 Alhadi Khogali, Renee de Jong, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & Arush Lal Leaders of the international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to member states attending next week’s 79th World Health Assembly, as they take the first steps to launch a joint UN process for reforming the global health architecture. As governments prepare for the 79th World Health Assembly […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts