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Global Strategy Lab @gstrategylab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Registration is open for Health Promotion, Equity and Rights: The Ottawa Charter at 40 - Oct 20–21 UOttawa. Ft. GSL speakers: @roojinhabibi.org, Arne Ruckert, @shoffmania.bsky.social & @pfafard.bsky.social. Learn more🔗 www.ottawahealthlaw.ca/conferences/...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This interdisciplinary conference in Ottawa will bring together experts in global and public health law, policy, history, and practice, to discuss the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, and its relevance today @roojinhabibi.org www.ottawahealthlaw.ca/conferences/...

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New Ebola situation report is out (there was none yesterday) and numbers are still rising shockingly fast: 782 confirmed cases now (+72 in the last 24 hours) That includes 181 confirmed deaths. Follow-up of contacts is back down to 56,5%. Not good. insp.cd/sitrep-n30-m...

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 11/06/2026

News these days fills me with dismay for the people of Iran. So much life, love and beauty remains uncaptured by Western (or IR) media. I hope to go back one day soon. For now, I can only see it through the eyes of Iran's own youth - breathtakingly talented, courageous, undeterred.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 10/06/2026

A useful overview of the IHR, as amended in 2022 and 2024, and its rejections - by Gian Luca Burci @gvagrad.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 10/06/2026

Where Canada's Ebola response not only includes blanket quarantine requirements, but also discriminatory immigration suspensions, Belgium shows it *is* possible to say no to Washington & follow scientific best practice. www.politico.eu/article/belg... @jcyliew.bsky.social @yybrandonc.bsky.social

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Belgium rejects US World Cup demand for Congo travel ban amid Ebola outbreak

Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke said Brussels will follow scientific advice and not bow to political pressure from Washington.

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Edward Xie @edwardxie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

New from me in @nationalobserver.com Nearly all heat-related deaths occur indoors, but half the renters in Canada don't have cooling at home. Tenants need affordable and safe homes during #heatwaves. with Anushen Selvasegar, amazing volunteer at C.R.E.W. crewresilience.ca @cape-acme.bsky.social

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Renters need a right to safe homes during heatwaves

For renters, heatwaves are not just uncomfortable, but potentially intolerable and dangerous.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 10/06/2026

Great to see this perspective! Two of my students in public health law also wrote their policy briefs on this issue this year. High time we gave this issue the policy focus it deserves.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 04/06/2026

"My book came out, and they were talking about this false naive style of drawing. There was nothing false about the naivety of my style. I couldn't draw better. This is it." What a star Marjane was...

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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Sobering estimates out from CDC. This was not inevitable.

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Global Strategy Lab @gstrategylab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Wow, lots of media from the GSL team lately! 👀 Check out Global Health Law Research Director @roojinhabibi.org weighing in on Canada's 90-day suspension of immigration documents for residents of DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan. #Ebola

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Y.Y. Brandon Chen @yybrandonc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I hear you. It’s truly stunning to hear the health minister saying that the decision to impose travel restrictions was “not a question of science”.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

“Canada should know better by now. We have a long history of using discriminatory travel and immigration rules for political theatre rather than public health” @roojinhabibi.org & colleagues www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: Suspending immigration over Ebola is misguided and goes against international law

Travel restrictions are not only ineffective at containing diseases, they create stigma and discourage future outbreak reporting

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Patrick Fafard @pfafard.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

« A blanket suspension of immigration processing for entire nationalities fails each of those tests. It discriminates on the basis of nationality and perceived disease status. »

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Suspending immigration over Ebola is misguided and goes against international law

Travel restrictions are not only ineffective at containing diseases, they create stigma and discourage future outbreak reporting

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 29/05/2026

A link here to the order issued by IRCC: orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.p.... Still looking out for the order on quarantine for travellers from the affected region (which is distinct from IRCC's measures on "residents" from affected countries).

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 29/05/2026

We are learning more each day about how little thought has been given to these measures. As I shared in my interview with Global News recently, the move has the makings of political theatre, rather than public health-grounded decision-making. 4/4 cc: @gstrategylab.bsky.social @ottawahealthlaw.ca

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 29/05/2026

Even more concerning (and perplexing) are new reports that even residents of affected countries who are ALREADY in Canada are being told that they can't travel abroad because their documents have been suspended - and cannot be guaranteed a return to Canada 🤯. 3/4 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Canada's Ebola travel rules have suspended some visas — including for people already here | CBC News

An untold number of Ugandans, Congolese and South Sudanese nationals who were already in Canada when the federal government brought in Ebola virus-related travel restrictions for residents of those th...

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 29/05/2026

As we note in the piece, the move is flawed on several fronts: from a public health perspective, it has marginal to zero benefit for Canadians; from a global health perspective, it hampers WHO's efforts to lead a coordinated response; from a human rights lens, it amounts to clear discrimination. 2/4

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 23/05/2026

Amid all the legal ambiguities regarding the withdrawal of Argentina and the United States from WHO, at last the WHA lands on some clarity - and takes a (wise) precedent-grounded stance, declining to accept withdrawal but placing these states in 'suspension' until they are ready to re-engage.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 14/05/2026

It will take a long time to come to terms with the passing of the remarkable, incomparable Brigit Toebes. My own time with Brigit was far too short. Even in that span, she left an indelible mark on me - as a scholar, teacher, colleague. This is a profound loss for the field and all who knew her.

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Global Strategy Lab @gstrategylab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

GSL is proud that @roojinhabibi.org is part of @paxsapiens.bsky.social Pandemic Compensation Initiative, which aims to design practical solutions to create a mechanism that rewards early transparency and strengthens global health security. Hear from Dr. Habibi here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t1x...

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Global Pandemic Prevention: Pandemic Compensation Initiative, Montserrat Arroyo Kuribrena

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 25/04/2026

Another fantastic @asilorg.bsky.social Annual Meeting, and my last as Co-Chair of the Global Health Law Interest Group. It’s been a joy to help build this IG community alongside @alexandraphelan.bsky.social, @aliciay.bsky.social & @margheritamelillo.bsky.social. More on Vice Chair elections soon.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 25/04/2026

worth reupping also that just a few weeks ago, @mattherder.bsky.social, @fatimahassan.bsky.social, Andy Hill and I argued about US driving a public health emergency of international concern in @bmj.com: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 25/04/2026

My partner talks often of the horrific era when as a child, AIDS struck family and friends, claiming uncles, aunts, cousins, classmates. All should read this by @stephanienolen.bsky.social. We’re regressing decades into the past - needlessly, unconscionably. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

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AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance

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Fatima Hassan @fatimahassan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

In latest Medicine & Science @bmj.com Podcast-I join my co-author @mattherder.bsky.social & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social to discuss our recent Analysis (w. Andy Hill & @roojinhabibi.org) calling for WHO to declare USG a PHEIC also due to its 'unhinged nationalism'. 📲 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

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The Trump administration is an international health emergency

Podcast Episode · Medicine and Science from The BMJ · April 17 · 51m

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uOttawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics @ottawahealthlaw.ca · 12/03/2026

Applications are now open for the University of Ottawa Summer Institute in Public Health Law, running online June 1–5. Designed for a wide range of attendees, no experience or legal training is required. www.ottawahealthlaw.ca/institute

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University of Ottawa Summer Institute in Public Health Law

June 1–5, 2026

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 31/03/2026

I bumped into a Gilead rep at an event not too long ago. As one can expect, he gave a heavy word salad on what the company is doing to enhance access to lencapavir. Good on MSF for going public and exposing the truth.

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mattherder.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

ICYMI - Our analysis published in @bmj.com makes the case for @who.int to declare that the actions of the US under President Trump amount to a 'PHEIC' under the International Health Regulations. CC @roojinhabibi.org @fatimahassan.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social

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Global Strategy Lab @gstrategylab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🌍 Worried about the impact US policy has had on global health? 📖 Read this timely analysis from GSL Global Health Law Director, @roojinhabibi.org and co-authors @mattherder.bsky.social, Fatima Hassan, and Andrew Hill.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 26/03/2026

Thanks very much Jocalyn for the uptake on this, and for the smooth process! Always a pleasure to collaborate.

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Important to publish articles that provoke debate and encourage different ways of thinking at problems - why not consider a #PHEIC?

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Read this Newsweek piece and read Dr Clark's thread and then, as she says, weep at what the MAGA/MAHA administration is doing [disclosure: I was a peer reviewer for the piece and am a guest editor for the BMJ series on the geopolitics of health; the article is the first paper in the series]

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 26/03/2026

Over the past few hours since publication, this piece has gained quite a bit of traction - but none surprised me as much as this direct response to our article, from the White House: www.newsweek.com/us-trump-adm.... The response, essentially, says it all.

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Trump administration is world’s "worst public health emergency" say experts

The researchers argue that U.S. policy shifts are fuelling disease spread and rising deaths—in some countries more than others.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 26/03/2026

It may be obvious but also worth restating: the chances of a PHEIC declaration on this are *very* slim. But the fact that we can even muster such an argument should be a warning sign to all of how out of hand things have gotten.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 26/03/2026

We lean on the WHO's International Health Regulations for unintentional” outbreaks, but the Regulations were written for an all‑hazards world. When political choices drive disease risk across borders, they’re not just bad policy, but a transnational threat to public health.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 26/03/2026

Now out in @bmj.com: With @mattherder.bsky.social, Fatima Hassan & Andrew Hill, we argue that the Trump administration’s deliberate assault on global health should be treated as a public health emergency of international concern under international law. www.bmj.com/content/392/...

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 26/03/2026

Many thanks Patrick for sharing and for your feedback. I agree, but also think that we ought not to be diplomatic with an Administration that threw diplomacy out the window a long time ago. The Administration's unhinged response to our article here says it all: www.newsweek.com/iran-war-liv...

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Iran war live: Trump says Iran 'obliterated,' pressure campaign intensifies

Regional tensions rise as Israel, Iran and US escalate military moves; diplomacy remains uncertain. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Savage. The White House has responded to the paper we published last night in @bmj.com, which calls the US administration a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Read & weep:

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Trump administration is world’s "worst public health emergency" say experts

The researchers argue that U.S. policy shifts are fuelling disease spread and rising deaths—in some countries more than others.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 23/02/2026

For those tracking U.S. global health policy: this piece unpacks how the new 50B foreign affairs package reshapes funding, priorities, and leverage under Trump. Short but illuminating read - even if a tad optimistic in my view. 🔗 www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/what...

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What $50 Billion for U.S. Foreign Affairs Changes for Global Health | Think Global Health

PEPFAR's former chief of staff describes how new legislation marks a turning point for U.S. foreign assistance

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 23/02/2026

Huge thanks and hearty congratulations to the ever thoughtful and brilliant @matiangai.bsky.social, together with Kriti Sharma, for their leadership, insightful editing, and vision in curating the “Global Health at a Crossroads” symposium.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 23/02/2026

Glad to contribute to this symposium alongside colleagues whose work continues to push our understanding of global health governance in new and necessary directions. 📑 Explore the rest of the symposium at: lnkd.in/ewZ4SkB2

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 23/02/2026

While I see PHECS as a vital assertion of regional agency, I caution that, without stronger legal and procedural safeguards, it could inadvertently reproduce the very fragmentation, opacity, and crisis-driven logic that have long plagued global health emergency governance.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 23/02/2026

I also take a critical look at the PHECS mechanism itself, noting how its open-ended legal basis and ad hoc criteria risk making future declarations vulnerable to shifting politics and personalities rather than clear, agreed rules

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 23/02/2026

I argue that this authority is both an expression of continental agency and ownership in global health, and a way of reshaping debates about what counts as a “global health emergency” and who should be making that call.

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