Reposted by Antoine de BengyThomas Stubbs @thomstubbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026📢 New call for papers in Globalization and Health: From Aid Dependency to Health Sovereignty? We invite work on debt, fiscal pressures, donor retrenchment, aid fragmentation, health financing & shifting power in global health. link.springer.com/collections/... 102
Reposted by Antoine de BengyKristof Decoster @kristofdecoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2025www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/2025... Ridiculous headline - the 1 billion is mostly coming from the Gates Foundation. High time to let the private sector 'contribute' in another way. #globaltaxjusticetheglobalfund.orgGlobal Fund Celebrates Private Sector Pledges Exceeding US$1 Billion on Sidelines of UN General AssemblyThe Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) announced private sector pledges totaling more than US$1 billion over this last week, marking a major step forward in its Eigh... 111
Reposted by Antoine de BengyTracey Wagner-Rizvi @twagnerrizvi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Oooooooh! This one’s going to be super interesting! 111
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Check out the latest from @kstoreng.bsky.social - "The business of pandemic intelligence". A much needed dive into the emergence of a commercial market for pandemic intelligence and its consequences for the WHO and health equity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Business of Pandemic Intelligence: Implications for Global Health GovernanceDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, tech startups emerged as important providers of pandemic intelligence, leveraging diverse data sources and advanced computational methods to advise public policy on dise... 010
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 05/08/2025One of the best reads I had in a while. Really insightful paper based on fantastic work to obtain covid vaccine contracts in South Africa. Highly recommended! 001
Reposted by Antoine de BengyRob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 17/07/2025@jacktaggart.bsky.social and I have been working together on multistakeholderism, and thinking about how these hybrid forms of governance connect to multilateralism This is an attempt to think through institutional hybridity in global plastics governance www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/glo...globalpolicyjournal.comEarly View Article - The Trojan Horse of Hybrid Governance: Corporate Power and Global Plastics Governance | Global Policy JournalThis article examines the emergence of a hybrid institutional complex (HIC) in global plastics governance. By interrogating the structure, features, and contradictions of hybrid global plastics govern... 165
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 27/06/2025The UK pledged £1.25 billion to Gavi to save children, but the Minister of International development also reminds us that Gavi's partnership with UK pharma "supports economic growth and job creation, putting money in the pockets of British people." questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...questions-statements.parliament.ukWritten statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK ParliamentInformation from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports. 010
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025To contextualize this pledge, this means Norway cuts its contribution to Gavi by 50%, and keeps its funding to The Global Fund stable (does not follow inflation). Check out Development Today’s piece for in-depth coverage: www.development-today.com/archive/2025...development-today.comNorway puts brakes on Gavi pledge, old promises strain the budget | Development TodayNorway, a key donor to the vaccine alliance Gavi, announces a reduction in its support for the next five years, sending an ominous signal ahead of the agency... 110
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025New publication! 🎉 “Quasi-public Partnerships: Multistakeholder Governance in an International Organization” in Global Governance 🔓 brill.com/view/journal... The paper will be of interest to those interested in:brill.com 171
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Bill Gates is so rich that he‘ll still be a billionaire after giving away 99% of his fortune 💰 000
Reposted by Antoine de BengyKaterini T. Storeng @kstoreng.bsky.social · 08/05/2025In a new paper in Globalization & Health, @adebengyp.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social and I analyze how the Gates Foundation strategically works to align European donors with its global health and development priorities. Our key findings in this thread 🧵 141
Reposted by Antoine de BengySimon Rushton @simonrushton.bsky.social · 25/04/2025New article out in Globalization & Health with @adebengyp.bsky.social and @kstoreng.bsky.social looking at the Gates Foundation’s efforts to influence European donor governments. Open access here: globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.comThe Gates Foundation’s network diplomacy in European donor countries - Globalization and HealthThe Gates Foundation is the most influential private philanthropic foundation in global health and development. This article examines how the Foundation has developed an unparalleled capacity to rally... 032
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 07/05/2025🚨 New paper 📑 “The Gates Foundation’s network diplomacy in European donor countries”, co-written with @kstoreng.bsky.social & @simonrushton.bsky.social 👉 globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.comThe Gates Foundation’s network diplomacy in European donor countries - Globalization and HealthThe Gates Foundation is the most influential private philanthropic foundation in global health and development. This article examines how the Foundation has developed an unparalleled capacity to rally... 133
Reposted by Antoine de BengyLise Bjerke @lisebjerke.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Happy to share my latest article in @biosocieties.bsky.social! 💊 🌏 It analyses science-policy responses to drug resistance and antibiotic pollution from pharma industries in India, showing how various uncertainties arise due to "molecularised" understandings of the environment. rdcu.be/ehiU9rdcu.beAntibiotics in the environment: molecularisation, drug resistance and pharmaceutical pollution in India 021
Reposted by Antoine de BengyKaterini T. Storeng @kstoreng.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Interested in understanding the impact of mega-foundations and other private actors in global health governance? Apply by April 23 to join the Global Health Politics group @uio.no PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Postdoc: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... www.sum.uio.no/english/rese... 01911
Reposted by Antoine de BengyLaw360 @law360.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer had no taxable profits in its largest market, the U.S., after booking all its income in jurisdictions including Puerto Rico, Singapore and Ireland, according to a Senate Finance Committee report. www.law360.com/tax-a...law360.comPfizer Tops Pharma Tax Avoidance, Senate Dems Say - Law360 Tax AuthorityPharmaceutical giant Pfizer had no taxable profits in its largest market, the U.S., after booking all its income in jurisdictions including Puerto Rico, Singapore and Ireland, according to a Senate Finance Committee report prepared by panel Democrats that was released Thursday. 015
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Interested in the role of mega-philanthropic foundations & private actors in global health governance? Come work with me, @kstoreng.bsky.social & team at the University of Oslo! PhD position: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Postdoc position: www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still... Deadline April 23.jobbnorge.noPostdoctoral fellowship in global health politics (SKO 1352) (277953) | Universitetet i OsloStillingstittel: Postdoctoral fellowship in global health politics (SKO 1352) (277953), Arbeidsgiver: Universitetet i Oslo, Søknadsfrist: onsdag 23. april 2025 010
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Funding cuts are bad news for global vaccination efforts, but the 1.2 million deaths projection does not make sense. It depends on reshuffling of budgets, re-prioritization within Gavi, and whether recipient countries step up to fill the gap (increase co-financing requirements for sustainability?). 100
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025US plans to cut funding to Gavi, reports @stephanienolen.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h... A few thoughts about what’s next, should the decision be confirmed 🧵nytimes.comU.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor CountriesA 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs. 100
Reposted by Antoine de BengyApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the price. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/h...nytimes.comHow Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks (Gift Article)Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the price. 9241102
Reposted by Antoine de BengyFelix Stein @felixundstein.bsky.social · 04/03/2025New article about #blendedfinance in #globalhealth. Prof. McNeill and I ask whether private finance can fill globalhealth funding gaps, looking at #IFFIm, #AMCs and #matchingfunds. Unfortunately, it's not looking too good... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comBlended finance to the rescue? Subsidies, vaccine bonds and matching funds in global healthTo close persistent global health financing gaps, policymakers have in recent years promoted the idea of ‘blended finance’, i.e. the strategic use of public funds to attract additional private sect... 195
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025WHO needs to be funded - but I don't think an endowment would be a good idea: 1) Susceptible to financial crises and market fluctuations 2) Conflicts of interests (will a WHO fund invest in harmful industries?) 3) Harder to control WHO secretariat / risk of bureaucratic push-back and inertia 020
Reposted by Antoine de BengyFelix Stein @felixundstein.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Great article by @adebengyp.bsky.social et al in @thelancet.bsky.social: The #PPP model does not work for tackling the world's most pressing problems, as it invites the corporations that cause the problems to set the terms for their solutions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comGlobal health partnerships for a post-2030 agenda 032
Reposted by Antoine de BengyKaterini T. Storeng @kstoreng.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Are today’s public-private partnerships the partnerships we need to meet future global health challenges? Find out what we think in this free to access Lancet Viewpoint authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWO5V-4XO... with @adebengyp.bsky.social, @profsophieharman.bsky.social, @simonrushton.bsky.social 063
Reposted by Antoine de BengyRob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 30/01/2025important commentary by @adebengyp.bsky.social and colleagues that challenges the technical and apolitical status of global public-private partnerships in development re-politicizing these governance arrangement is a critical part of wider critiques of market-based approaches to planetary health 031
Reposted by Antoine de BengySimon Rushton @simonrushton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Viewpoint piece out in the Lancet today with @adebengyp.bsky.social @profsophieharman.bsky.social and @kstoreng.bsky.social looking at Global Health Partnerships for the future. Does “partnership” have to mean “public-private partnership”? kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me 032
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Thrilled to see @thelancet.bsky.social publish our viewpoint “Global health partnerships for a post-2030 agenda”, co-written with @profsophieharman.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social and @kstoreng.bsky.social A thread 🧵 1209
Reposted by Antoine de BengyApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 27/01/2025BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...nytimes.comTrump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries (Gift Article)PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped. 30218531307
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The Global Fund aims to raise $2bn from the private sector. But who will step up? In the period 2020-2022, the private sector gave $1bn, (5.6% of the Global Fund’s total budget), of which 760k came from the Gates Foundation. www.devex.com/news/devex-d...devex.comdevex.com 000
Reposted by Antoine de BengyAshleigh Furlong @ashleighfurlong.bsky.social · 24/01/2025SCOOP: The World Health Organization is freezing hiring, suspending investments and cutting non-essential travel in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to take the US out of the global body. News on Bloomberg Terminal. Link to story to come. 41519
Reposted by Antoine de BengyRob Yates @robyates123.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Interested in the politics and political determinants of health? Then follow @collectivehealth.bsky.social 042
Reposted by Antoine de BengyCollective for the Political Determinants of Health @collectivehealth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Stay up to date with the members of the Collective for the Political Determinants of Health! bsky.app/profile/did:... 11214
Reposted by Antoine de BengyCollective for the Political Determinants of Health @collectivehealth.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Join the first Collective Conversation of 2025! "Private Finance and Financialisation: A Threat to Global Health" with @benmhunter.bsky.social & @felixundstein.bsky.social, moderated by Susan Erikson. The event is co-produced with @unu-iigh.bsky.social Sign up: sum.uio.no/english/rese... 045
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Norges lederskap innen global helse – på tide å skifte ledertrøya? @kstoreng.bsky.social www.panoramanyheter.no/global-helse...panoramanyheter.noNorges lederskap innen global helse – på tide å skifte ledertrøya?Norge kan og bør ta lederskap for å halvere død innen 2050, var hovedbudskapet da Stoltenberg-utvalget om global helse lanserte rapporten sin 4. november. Mens utviklingsministeren vil prioritere å fø... 000
Reposted by Antoine de BengyCollective for the Political Determinants of Health @collectivehealth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024The Collective for the Political Determinants of Health has joined the eXodus - follow us and our members for updates! go.bsky.app/7bmv1xD 055
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The WHO had its “culminating moment” at the G20 yesterday, gaining 3 additional pledges (total raised 1.7bn). Does anyone know what happened? No pledging ceremony? No high-level event? Surely, the WHO aimed more than a paragraph in a G20 declaration 🤔 000
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024This week, the World Health Organization is fundraising for the first time USD 7.1 bn in voluntary contributions. But is mimicking global health partnerships' replenishment model a good idea? @kstoreng.bsky.social & I analyze this move in Global Policy: www.globalpolicyjournal.com/sites/defaul...globalpolicyjournal.com 111
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Hoping to find here the global health community I interacted with and learnt from on Twitter. Let’s stay in touch! 081