Reposted by Matthew KavanaghMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026👇🎯💯protectdemocracy.orgOver 200 democracy scholars call on Congress to end single-member Congressional districts and adopt proportional representationMore than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections. 06220
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Incredibly disingenuous... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...nytimes.comU.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future PandemicsMost member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections. 000
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Today we convened a meeting of twenty ministers and agency heads with @perryworldhouse.bsky.social, @unaids.org, AUDA-NEPAD, Global Council: African Leadership & Regional Production of Frontier AIDS & other Pandemic Medicines Powerful ideas and some concrete next steps came out. #UNGA 020
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is so important. Kindof blowing me away as I sit in NY at the UNGA where governments are convening to talk pandemics. 02411
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Fundamentally #Pandemic #PABS impass is not technical, just political: most of the world recognizes w/o sharing technology, next pandemic will play out just like COVID, HIV. Rich country companies oppose➡️their govts block agreement. MOH’s can’t change that. So what will happen? … 1/2 101
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghGeorgetown Center for Global Health Policy & Politics @ghpp.georgetown.edu · 16/09/20261/3 We're pleased to release E2 of Global Order: Can a Divided World Be Ready for the Next Pandemic? with the Rt Hon. Helen Clark. Listen now: open.spotify.com/show/3UVX9xJ... 112
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Women and Global South respondents emphasized normative goals: equity, justice, and structural reform.... In contrast, men and Global North respondents often framed success through processes: institutional innovation, efficiency, and procedural legitimacy." academic.oup.com/heapol/advan...academic.oup.comWhat is success in global health diplomacy? A qualitative analysis of gendered and global perspectives on success and failureAbstract. Global health diplomacy is central to shaping the international response to health challenges, yet what counts as “success” or “failure” remains 0129
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ideology? The "EU Diplomat" is right, but in reverse. The idea that private monopolies on scientific knowledge drive innovation and voulntary sharing can stop pandemics has proven wrong again and again. That is a stark and dangerous ideology, Europe. healthpolicy-watch.news/as-pandemic-...healthpolicy-watch.newsAs Pandemic Talks Resume, EU Diplomat Sharply Criticises ‘Ideological Polarisation’ - Health Policy WatchEU negotiator Americo Zampetti warns that ideological polarisation over pathogen access threatens to derail the WHO Pandemic Agreement. 011
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghRob Yates @robyates123.bsky.social · 10/09/2026WTF: former Kenyan Health Minister accused of stealing hospital patients, detained for not paying their bills thekenyatimes.com/health/forme...thekenyatimes.comFormer Governor Accused Of Stealing 19 Patients From HospitalThe County Government has accused former Governor of disrupting operations at the hospital after the governor allegedly entered the facility without following the required administrative procedures 011
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’m so glad to release our first episode of Global Order, "Democracy in an Age of Crisis". My first guest is Winnie Byanyima — UNAIDS EXD, former head of Oxfam, and Ugandan freedom fighter 1/3 open.spotify.com/show/3UVX9xJ... 130
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghGeorgetown Center for Global Health Policy & Politics @ghpp.georgetown.edu · 09/09/2026We’re pleased to release episode one of our podcast, Global Order with @unaids.org executive director Winnie Byanyima on democracy in an age of crisis. Listen: open.spotify.com/show/3UVX9xJ... 031
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Nepal disaster is a wake-up call to take compound climate risks seriously @natureportfolio.nature.com @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... 04220
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“This outbreak is still evolving.” healthpolicy-watch.news/ebola-outbre...healthpolicy-watch.newsEbola Outbreak 'Still Evolving' As Deaths Pass 3,000 - Health Policy WatchMore than 3,000 people have now died in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak out of 6,250 confirmed cases, the Africa Centres for 021
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghMelody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 31/08/2026Kennedy and the CDC aren't yet counting the Pennsylvania deaths from measles -- a "highly unusual” move, @drdebhoury.bsky.social told me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS health officials exclude measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania from countsRFK Jr, the health secretary, has suggested the deaths were ‘fabricated’ while the CDC claimed it was reviewing them 215583
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Advice: What's the best piece you've read about the politics of the current Ebola outbreak in DRC? 000
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghMatthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I’m launching a podcast. Global Order is about what happens to health as the old rules of the world break down. Aid frozen, clinics closed, institutions weakened. What comes next is uncertain. Click follow so you don’t miss the 1st episode, out September🔔 open.spotify.com/show/3UVX9xJ... 131
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghGeorgetown Center for Global Health Policy & Politics @ghpp.georgetown.edu · 28/08/2026We’re launching a podcast, Global Order, on what happens to health as the rules and institutions the world relied on for 80 years come apart. A moment of danger, but also a chance to build something better. Click follow so you don’t miss it 🔔 open.spotify.com/show/3UVX9xJ... 111
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I’m launching a podcast. Global Order is about what happens to health as the old rules of the world break down. Aid frozen, clinics closed, institutions weakened. What comes next is uncertain. Click follow so you don’t miss the 1st episode, out September🔔 open.spotify.com/show/3UVX9xJ... 131
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Yep! In COVID Moderna was thinking ahead to now: If they had shared mRNA tech w Africa, Asia, and Latin America, allowing them to produce their own vax, then future, exclusive profits from new uses of mRNA would have been in jeopardy. @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comWill Moderna’s Cancer Vaccine Be Good for People, or Profits?The drug giant restricted access to its Covid vaccine to protect its bottom line. Will history repeat itself now? 074
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The median household income in the US is $83,730. The average patient in the trial stayed in the drug about 8 months. So new drug costs at least 4x the average US household makes before taxes. Reminder: Monopolies vis patent are NOT the only way to incentivize research. 033
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghNatasha Loder @natashaloder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The company behind this drug wants almost $40K for a month's supply or $480K a year. Deeply disappointing. H/t @endpts.com 051
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026All ICE funding should be transferred to MRNA research and development . www.wsj.com/health/pharm...wsj.comNovel Cancer Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning in First for mRNAResult in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines. 328164544243
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Public health seriously needs a political arm dedicated to recognizing active opponents and countering them in the real world. e.g.👇 030
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Launched in Rio: We show a major gap in global definitions of pandemic preparedness. Health Security capacity is necessary but, we show, insufficient in real world b/c economic inequality blocks countries' ability to deploy even strong technical capacities 🧵Thread... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... 1135
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghBen Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Failing to tackle inequality puts countries in pandemic danger, new research shows New England Journal of Medicine piece @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social 📖 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Background data 📖 www.inequalitycouncil.org/wp-content/u... 145
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghAndrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026And @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social expands on findings: Within countries, inequality creates conditions that viruses spread more easily, pandemics last longer 001
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The first volunteer has been dosed with the world's first BDBV vaccine. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-07...ox.ac.ukFirst volunteer vaccinated in the world's first Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine trialThe University of Oxford’s Oxford Vaccine Group has today successfully vaccinated the first volunteer in the world’s first clinical trial of a vaccine designed to protect against Bundibugyo ebolavirus... 423887
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The new UK PM had a chance to close health equity and address pandemic risk at the same time! @michaelmarmot.bsky.social @jessjallen.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Another massive jump in Ebola cases in DRC (reflecting new cases as well as "data harmonization"). Now 2,905 cases including 1,269 deaths. I find it harder every day to square the size and speed of spread of this outbreak with the lack of attention it is getting. insp.cd/sitrep-n069-... 4203130
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026““Self-reliance” is the term of art for a donor withdrawal that recipient countries did not choose and, in many cases, cannot yet absorb.” 020
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Even after COVID-19, why is the world still so vulnerable to pandemics? That's the question I'm taking on at the Breaking the Inequality Cycle session at #AIDS2026, with our new research on why preparedness keeps falling short. (hint, it's not 'global health security' capacity) 052
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"Brazilian democracy has many flaws, and far-right sectors remain very much active. Yet Bolsonaro’s fate — and with it, the fate of democracy — was shaped by...a practical reversal of the U.S. model..." Cristina Buarque de Hollanda for @sunsentinel.bsky.social www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/07/09/l...sun-sentinel.comLessons from the South: How Brazil held onto its democracy | OpinionAfter supporters rioted and trashed government buildings in the U.S. and Brazil, Donald Trump returned to power, but Jair Bolsonaro went to jail. The two countries’ institutions explain why. 7455141
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Study finds over 1,700 HIV treatment sites closed due to trip cuts, which helps explain the major slow down we are seeing in data from UNAIDS and Clinton Foundation data. Even with cuts, this could have been avoided with planning. Deeply irresponsible www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...nytimes.com1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study FindsNew research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected. 041
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Continued alarming transmission. We have been here before. This is why pandemics and major outbreaks cannot be solved by the health sector alone. Whether AIDS or COVID or Ebola we keep learning this lesson. 050
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghGeneva Health Files @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social · 17/07/2026[EXCLUSIVE] Game On: Africa Group Vs The EU. Competing Models For The Pathogen Access Benefit Sharing System newsletter.genevahealthfiles.com/exclusive-ga...newsletter.genevahealthfiles.com[EXCLUSIVE] Game On: Africa Group Vs The EU. Competing Models For The Pathogen Access Benefit Sharing SystemNewsletter Edition #167 [Treaty Talks] Subscribe Now! Readers, I promised myself I will not use football metaphors (my allegiance is to cricket). However, when a top WHO official this week brought ... 002
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This is really good. Bravo to all the hospitals and clinics that refused to comply with illegal orders that would have harmed their patients (side eye to the rest). 051
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Not just bad policy. Not just theater. But very clearly illegal. 0278
Reposted by Matthew KavanaghAtul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/07/2026More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social 7338263
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026So while the world was focused on a luxury cruise ship… 0113
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Congratulations to Mariangela Simao , long time champion on aids, rights, access to medicines. Excited to work with you in this exciting new role 000
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Some of you think “foreign assistance” will be rebuilt as it was in the past after Trump leaves office. That would be a be a failure. 000
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Amidst nationalism and racist rhetoric, glad to be away from DC this Fourth of July. Istead living in world of one of the US’s great political philosophers, alternative myth making is needed right now. youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM?...youtu.be‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPRYouTube video by NPR 010
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The level of misunderstanding politics here is striking. 1) Drops in support for gay marriage is because of a concerted right wing campaign. 2) Young people defying patriarchal notions of sexuality reflects a (good) social shift not confusion. Go home. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters. 041
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Definitely just made plans to go to the wrong DC airport. Forgot I have layover. Signs of too many planes 110
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026This is super well deserved for decades of remarkable and beautiful reporting. @stephanienolen.bsky.social 140
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The heart of broken global health right now: research on disease in Congo that will result in vaccines and meds over which global North researchers have monopoly control. Under what theory of good public health (let alone justice) does that make any sense? www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 22112
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026My Reflection from UN on HIV yesterday. Remarkable, paradoxical, dramatic. At turbulent moment, multilat'lism stuck on many fronts, Political Decl. is STRIKINGLY good on many issues. Fascinating political bedfellows. Signs of HIV crisis biting for com'ities. A thread on politics & policy: 🧵1/12 161