By Nick Watts, Nicola Wheeler, Pauline Castres The decision of the US President to quit the Paris Agreement will not trump that momentum. […]
UK health alliance: The pathway to a healthy, low-carbon world is set
Category: Global health
David Southall: Ending the international arms trade could reduce terrorism and prevent the death of civilians
Advocacy by health professionals could help stop the arms trade […]
Suchita Shah: The lost brigade—why diasporas matter to global health
Reflections on the second UK-East African Healthcare Summit, London 2017 Talk of nations, national borders, and national identities has become a part of the ideological foreplay that inevitably leads up to big political events. As the UK general election looms, there couldn’t be a more apt time to consider what “homeland” means to us in […]
Ilona Kickbusch: The new director general of WHO and the politics of global health
Ilona Kickbusch discusses the challenges that Dr Tedros will face and how he will need to apply his political focus and determination […]
Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar: Five tasks for the new WHO DG
Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar set out five tasks for the newly elected DG of the WHO […]
David Nabarro: The WHO must change, and I am the right person to deliver that change
Next Tuesday, health leaders from across the world will elect the new leader of the World Health Organization (WHO). With variable climates, war, and changing lifestyles putting pressure on health, this election could not come at a more critical time. The WHO must be there to help with these challenges, but to do it effectively, it […]
Sania Nishtar: Delivering the WHO that we need
Extraordinary situations warrant extraordinary responses. The election of a new Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) next week is one such setting because it involves installing leadership of an agency, which has the mandate of protecting humanity from a global pandemic which could wipe out the development gains of the past century. A Spanish […]
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Let’s prove the impossible is possible
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been elected the new Director General of the World Health Organization. Read his vision of what he hopes to achieve […]
Chris Simms: We need to prioritise cyber security in this age of global risks
Earlier this year when the World Economic Forum launched its annual 2017 Global Risks Report, an obvious question was whether the global community had learnt from the previous 2016 Global Risks Report. The evidence suggested that it had not, or at least not enough to have prioritised and taken effective steps to mediate risk and […]
Katja Iversen: Diabetes in pregnancy—a neglected cause of maternal mortality
In the lead up to the 70th World Health Assembly (22-31 May), president and CEO of Women Deliver, Katja Iversen, highlights a neglected health problem that must be addressed in order to reduce global rates of maternal mortality and fulfil Sustainable Development Goal targets: diabetes in pregnancy […]