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Arush Lal, PhD

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💼 Pandemics Advisor - The Elders 📝 Visiting Fellow - LSE Health Researching global health policy, diplomacy, and architecture reform. Advocating for health equity and resilience via UHC & GHS. Views my own. www.lse.ac.uk/people/dr-arush-lal

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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨New in @nature.com Health: Reforming global health for an age of mistrust, fragmentation, and overlapping crises. Reform should not be reduced to doing less with less. It must be honest about its problems and ambituous about its scope and solutions. 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Reforming global health for an age of mistrust, fragmentation and overlapping crises - Nature Health
To move from debate to delivery, global health architecture reform must rebalance power, reinforce systems and restore trust, with a sharper focus on managing geopolitics and emerging threats.
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨New in @nature.com Health: Reforming global health for an age of mistrust, fragmentation, and overlapping crises. Reform should not be reduced to doing less with less. It must be honest about its problems and ambituous about its scope and solutions. 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Reforming global health for an age of mistrust, fragmentation and overlapping crises - Nature Health
To move from debate to delivery, global health architecture reform must rebalance power, reinforce systems and restore trust, with a sharper focus on managing geopolitics and emerging threats.
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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🌐A historic drop in aid is exposing a hard truth: a global health architecture dependent on a small group of donors cannot reliably deliver universal health coverage. INSIDE VIEW: Alhadi Khogali, @reneedejong.bsky.social, Marionka Pohl, Rispah Walumbe & @arushlal.bsky.social #WHA79 📖⬇️& 🔁🙏
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WHA79 Must Make Universal Health Coverage The Compass For Global Health Architecture Reform - Health Policy Watch
Leaders of international NGOs, Save the Children, Seed Global Health, AMREF, and LSE Health make five asks to governments at the 79th World Health Assembly
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
What began as a crisis of resources now risks becoming a crisis of direction for global health governance. My latest op-ed argues for the World Health Assembly to initiate a time-bound, member state-led process to unify fragmented global health architecture reforms. blogs.lse.ac.uk/globalhealth...
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It is time for a World Health Assembly resolution on global health architecture reform - LSE Global Health
Ahead of this week’s World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board meeting, Dr Arush Lal (Visiting Fellow, LSE Health) argues for the adoption of a resolution to support coordination of fragmented g...
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LSE Health Policy @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
📣New research in Health Policy & Planning by @arushlal.bsky.social examines how diplomacy & governance can build a more coherent global health architecture – through the lens of aligning GHS & UHC. 🔗 Read in full: bit.ly/4q4X1WV
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Action for Global Health @afghnetwork.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Repairing Global Health Security at the Humanitarian Frontline Reorienting the global preparedness system to include humanitarian settings requires conceptual and operational shifts @thinkglobalhealth.org www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/repa...
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Repairing Global Health Security at the Humanitarian Frontline | Think Global Health
Reorienting the global preparedness system to include humanitarian settings requires conceptual and operational shifts
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Delighted to share that I’ve been appointed a Visiting Fellow @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social! I’ll be focusing on the politics of health diplomacy and global health architecture reform in an era of overlapping crises. 🌍 If this sounds interesting, let’s collaborate ⬇️ www.lse.ac.uk/people/dr-ar...
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The Elders @theelders.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
ELDERS’ STATEMENT | Elders warn against bilateral pandemic deals that could impact multilateral cooperation Decisions taken now will determine whether all people are protected from pandemic threats. Read the statement here: theelders.org/news/elders-...
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Elders warn against bilateral pandemic deals that could impact multilateral cooperationElders’ Statement | 21.11.2025

“Parallel systems created through bilateral agreements should not undermine the foundations of global preparedness and response being built at the multilateral level. Once multilateralism is hollowed out, it is hard to rebuild...Decisions taken now will determine whether the world can build a future of shared safety and collective action, and whether all people are protected from pandemic threats.”

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The Elders @theelders.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
ELDERS’ STATEMENT | Gaza “ceasefire” rings hollow as all Palestinians face security catastrophe “The Elders condemn Israel’s continued military attacks and obstruction of aid in Gaza, two months after the ceasefire agreed.” Read the statement in full: theelders.org/news/gaza-ce...
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Gaza “ceasefire” rings hollow as all Palestinians face security catastropheElders’ Statement | 11.12.2025
ISRAEL/PALESTINE

“Palestinians in Gaza have little sense that the ceasefire is working. Their suffering risks increasing even further if the current process fails. Without targeted measures against extremists on both sides, progress towards a just and lasting peace will remain out of reach.”

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
The Israeli military killed six Palestinians, including a baby, who were in a school that sheltered displaced people in Gaza City on Friday. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Israeli troops kill six Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, say hospital chiefs
Attack brings total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 401 since October ceasefire took effect
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This #UHCDay, @katribertram.bsky.social and I argue that UHC offers a unifying vision to underpin global health reform efforts — advancing sovereignty, equity & resilience. Without shared direction, reform risks stalling in fragmentation and fatigue. Our op-ed out now @ihpnetwork.bsky.social ⬇️
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Marwin Meier @marwmeier.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
👏 "As a new #UHC Knowledge Hub is launched..., #globalhealth reform initiatives should align behind UHC as a country-led, sustainable global health model if they want to stay relevant." ‼️ @katribertram.bsky.social @arushlal.bsky.social www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art...
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Global health architecture reform must be anchored in UHC
As a new UHC Knowledge Hub is launched in Japan ahead of international UHC Day, global health reform initiatives should align behind UHC as a country-led, sustainable global health model if they want ...
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International Health Policies (IHP) network @ihpnetwork.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Global health architecture reform must be anchored in UHC www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art... Feat article by @arushlal.bsky.social & @katribertram.bsky.social #UHCDay
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Global health architecture reform must be anchored in UHC
As a new UHC Knowledge Hub is launched in Japan ahead of international UHC Day, global health reform initiatives should align behind UHC as a country-led, sustainable global health model if they want ...
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
📢 New paper out in Health Policy & Planning! In today’s fragmented world, global health needs more than piecemeal reform. This study examines how diplomacy & governance can build a more coherent global health architecture – through the lens of aligning GHS & UHC. 🔗: doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czaf086
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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
An important moment for #UHC and our community. Many of my fabulous colleagues will be there, stay tuned for more soon 😉 @robyates123.bsky.social @arushlal.bsky.social #globalhealth
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
As climate crisis accelerates, it’s the Global South that will be most impacted Pakistan’s Punjab province hit by 'biggest flood in its history' www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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Pakistan’s Punjab province hit by 'biggest flood in its history' – video
Fears of disease as more than 1,400 villages under water after three large rivers overflow their banks
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🎓 I’m beyond grateful (and admittedly a little overwhelmed) to share that I’ve officially completed and defended my PhD — with no corrections! 📘 Full thesis: etheses.lse.ac.uk/4906/
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🎓 I’m beyond grateful (and admittedly a little overwhelmed) to share that I’ve officially completed and defended my PhD — with no corrections! 📘 Full thesis: etheses.lse.ac.uk/4906/
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.
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LSE Health Policy @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🚨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 ‘𝐁𝐢𝐠, 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥’ Read @arushlal.bsky.social 's latest op-ed in @thebulletin.org outlining how short-sighted and dangerous cutting funding to programmes like #Medicare will be to Americans. Read the full article here 👉 bit.ly/409xctS #PandemicPreparedness
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Deep sigh Pepfar would focus on “creation of new markets for American drugs and technologies” @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...
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U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The recently passed “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is dangerous and shortsighted. My latest op-ed in the @thebulletin.org outlines how — by gutting crucial programs like Medicaid — this legislation makes Americans more vulnerable to the next pandemic. 🔗: thebulletin.org/2025/07/fewe...
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Fewer clinics, unhealthier people, less warning: The ‘big, beautiful bill’ will make the US less prepared for pandemics
The so-called "big, beautiful bill" will lead to millions of fewer people having health coverage in the United States. It will make the country less prepared to detect and respond to a future pandemic...
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 04/07/2025
Fewer clinics, unhealthier people, less warning: The 'big, beautiful bill' will make the US less prepared for pandemics. Read the full story by @arushlal.bsky.social. ⬇️
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Fewer clinics, unhealthier people, less warning: The ‘big, beautiful bill’ will make the US less prepared for pandemics
The so-called "big, beautiful bill" will lead to millions of fewer people having health coverage in the United States. It will make the country less prepared to detect and respond to a future…
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“As infectious disease professionals, we must all continue to speak out and act up to hold our governments to account, advocating for restored protection of free speech, reinstatement of investments in science and healthcare, and a return to just and evidence-based policies, (1/4)
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The recently passed “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is dangerous and shortsighted. My latest op-ed in the @thebulletin.org outlines how — by gutting crucial programs like Medicaid — this legislation makes Americans more vulnerable to the next pandemic. 🔗: thebulletin.org/2025/07/fewe...
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Fewer clinics, unhealthier people, less warning: The ‘big, beautiful bill’ will make the US less prepared for pandemics
The so-called "big, beautiful bill" will lead to millions of fewer people having health coverage in the United States. It will make the country less prepared to detect and respond to a future pandemic...
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives over the past 50 years. They remain one of our most powerful tools to prevent pandemics and protect communities. At a time when global health institutions face growing threats, this legacy must be defended. #VaccinesWork #GlobalHealthSecurity
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
After years of thinking, writing, rewriting — and rewriting again — it feels surreal to share that I’ve submitted my PhD thesis! Title: "Hybrid norms and the politics of integration: evolving linkages between global health security and universal health coverage" ⬇️
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
After years of thinking, writing, rewriting — and rewriting again — it feels surreal to share that I’ve submitted my PhD thesis! Title: "Hybrid norms and the politics of integration: evolving linkages between global health security and universal health coverage" ⬇️
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Excited to share I’ve joined The Elders as Advisor, Pandemics Programme. I’ll be leading strategy and engagement on pandemic prevention and preparedness — connecting diplomacy to public health and helping shape a more equitable and resilient health security architecture. @theelders.bsky.social
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨Five years since COVID-19, global health diplomacy is at a crossroads. How do we balance pandemic preparedness with health systems that actually improve access to care? Our latest in @biomedcentral.bsky.social Globalization & Health dives into this urgent question. 🔗: doi.org/10.1186/s129... 🧵⬇️
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Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD @nschwalbe.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
⏰Next week is the final negotiating session for the #PandemicAccord at the World Health Organization in Geneva. 💣Negotiators cannot afford to fail. 🤝 To strike a deal, countries no longer have the luxury of holding tight to narrow national self-interest. 🧵
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
USAID terminates nearly all its remaining 900 employees "Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees," according to two senior USAID officials, as the remnants of USAID are folded into State
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USAID terminates nearly all its remaining employees
The remaining USAID employees were given an end-of-employment date in an email sent out today.
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨Five years since COVID-19, global health diplomacy is at a crossroads. How do we balance pandemic preparedness with health systems that actually improve access to care? Our latest in @biomedcentral.bsky.social Globalization & Health dives into this urgent question. 🔗: doi.org/10.1186/s129... 🧵⬇️
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
As pandemics, climate disasters, economic instability, and geopolitical conflicts converge, and as #nationalism rises globally, how do we build #HealthSystems that are both crisis-ready and universally-accessible? @arushlal.bsky.social @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social @lseglobalhealth.bsky.social
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Evolving health norms amid overlapping crises: (re)constructing global health security and universal health coverage
For the Global Health at LSE blog this week, doctoral candidate Arush Lal, Dr Clare Wenham and Dr Justin Parkhurst (all LSE Health Policy) provide an overview of their recent paper in International…
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We’re in an era of polycrisis — pandemics, climate disasters, economic shocks. Rising nationalism and eroding multilateralism threaten progress. How do we build health systems that are BOTH crisis-ready & universally accessible? Our latest op-ed: blogs.lse.ac.uk/globalhealth...
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We’re in an era of polycrisis — pandemics, climate disasters, economic shocks. Rising nationalism and eroding multilateralism threaten progress. How do we build health systems that are BOTH crisis-ready & universally accessible? Our latest op-ed: blogs.lse.ac.uk/globalhealth...
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We’re in an era of polycrisis — pandemics, climate disasters, economic shocks. Rising nationalism and eroding multilateralism threaten progress. How do we build health systems that are BOTH crisis-ready & universally accessible? Our latest op-ed: blogs.lse.ac.uk/globalhealth... 🧵⬇️
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
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Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
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LSE Global Health Initiative @lseglobalhealth.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
📣 New blog post on Global Health at LSE by @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social's @arushlal.bsky.social, Dr Clare Wenham & Dr Justin Parkhurst! 'Evolving health norms amid overlapping crises: (re)constructing global health security and universal health coverage' Read it here: bit.ly/4h4ftcS
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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Large, global campaigning organizations have correctly lambasted recent (& still ongoing) cuts to #ODA & #humanitarian assistance. Why are they near silent on the parallel strangling (of an already shrunk) #civicspace? 1/3
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🚨PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 Given today’s interconnected challenges, many call for greater alignment between global health security (GHS) & universal health coverage (UHC). Yet, their normative histories and linkages remain underexplored. 🔗: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae238 @iajournal.bsky.social 🧵⬇️
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🚨PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 Given today’s interconnected challenges, many call for greater alignment between global health security (GHS) & universal health coverage (UHC). Yet, their normative histories and linkages remain underexplored. 🔗: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae238 @iajournal.bsky.social 🧵⬇️
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Kent Buse @kentbuse.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Good to see @bmj.com urging resistance & exercising leadership in response to #Trump efforts to purge science of terms including #gender #women #diverse #equity #excluded #inclusion 🙏 @jocalynclark.bsky.social & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/... @chrischirp.bsky.social
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Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Read every word of @stephanienolen.bsky.social 's story on how the demolition of #USAID, #CDC, and #PEPFAR is setting research back years and harming trial volunteers, some of whom are on experimental treatments and have lost access to care shd something go wrong. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Compared to last time around with US cuts, what worries me most this time around (2015 and 2022 OECD DAC data) is that there are very few democratic donors left to fill the huge gaps: www.oecd.org/en/data/indi... (and since 2022's most recent data, most have further plummeted massively)
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
1/ President Trump is once again pushing for US withdrawal from WHO—and proposing an "alternative" structure. But is this a real solution or just chaos in disguise? A 🧵 on our new piece @bmj.com with @kentbuse.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social & Adeeba Kamarulzaman 👇 www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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President Trump wants an alternative to the World Health Organization: how should we respond?
Much attention has rightly been placed on how to fill the World Health Organization’s funding gap if and when the US withdraws. Kent Buse and colleagues argue that President Trump’s idea to establish ...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is completely NUTS! CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/c...
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CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
There's a lot of replies to our new paper talking about how capitalism or overpopulation are the real enemy. Without getting into whether that's true of the climate emergency or the sixth mass extinction (🙃), I want to briefly explain why pandemics are different. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Pathogens and planetary change - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene.
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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
‘This horror must end’: #WHO condemns Israeli assault on last remaining north #Gaza hospital “The systematic dismantling of the health system in Gaza is a death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians in need of health care” - @who.int #NotATarget www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
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Last major health facility in north Gaza 'out of service' | The National
Kamal Adwan Hospital is in Beit Lahia, centre of intense Israeli military operation aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping
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