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Ben Verboom

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Lecturer in Global Public Health, Queen Mary University of London

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 24/05/2026
Last night @who.int office in Kyiv was hit by debris from one of many strikes in the city, damaging windows on the 3rd floor. No one got injured. Multiple deaths and injuries have been reported so far from the attacks on civilian infrastructure over night. Attacks on health and civilians MUST STOP
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Bimal Khadka @drbimalkhadka.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The #WHO's mandate on nuclear weapons is a win for #publichealth, but the #UK voted against it. At #WHA79 the UK should officially support the mandate and engage constructively. www.bmj.com/content/393/... @ippnw.bsky.social @whowpro.bsky.social @bmj.com @medact.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Global Impact of Attacks on Healthcare in Conflict Zones Join Dr Swee Chai Ang of @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, Dr James Smith, & Dr Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social for this crucial discussion July 9, 6-8pm, Milton Lecture Theatre, London. You can also join online Register: tinyurl.com/vacans5t
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Global impact of attacks on healthcare in conflict zones
Attacks on healthcare in conflict zones are on the rise. Join to hear first hand accounts of working as a doctor in humanitarian settings.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The only thing I can say about Keir Starmer is thank God he wasn't PM back in May 1940. He will go along dutifully with whatever Trump claims. Canadians would be fools to think this punter would have our back in a showdown with Trump. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Starmer backs Trump’s Iran bombing saying Tehran cannot develop a nuclear weapon
Prime minister backs US president as he bombs Iranian nuclear sites and says key facilities ‘completely and totally obliterated’
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Palestine was a dominant topic at the World Health Assembly this year. Countries debated how to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and agreed to include Palestine to the International Health Regulations regime. My reporting, with @pritipatnaik.bsky.social, for the Geneva Health Files.
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Geneva Health Files @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Countries Vote in Support of Palestine at World Health Assembly, as Humanitarian and Health Crises Worsen in Gaza Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #275 [The Files In-Depth] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/-countries...
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Palestine was a dominant topic at the World Health Assembly this year. Countries debated how to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and agreed to include Palestine to the International Health Regulations regime. My reporting, with @pritipatnaik.bsky.social, for the Geneva Health Files.
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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Antimicrobial resistance #AMR is an impending catastrophe Our call to @who.int and the international community #WHA78 -End industrial factory farming –Shift to #agroecology –Defund factory farms –Invest in #PublicPharma Our future depends on it. @psiglobalunion.bsky.social @verboom.bsky.social
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The spectre of nuclear war haunts our increasingly divided world. My statement on the health implications of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. Delivered on behalf of the People's Health Movement @who-watch.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social at the 78th World Health Assembly. #WHA78
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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A nuclear war would inevitably be a mass casualty event. The People's Health Movement's position on the devastating effects of #NuclearWeapons and #NuclearWar. A statement delivered to the @who.int World Health Assembly with our friends at @psiglobalunion.bsky.social. #WHA78 @verboom.bsky.social
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The spectre of nuclear war haunts our increasingly divided world. My statement on the health implications of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. Delivered on behalf of the People's Health Movement @who-watch.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social at the 78th World Health Assembly. #WHA78
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
#WHA78 Israel has called for a recorded vote on draft resolution (A78/B/CONF./2) on Raising the flags of non-Member Observer States at the World Health Organization. @who.int
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
@babaaye.bsky.social, Public Services International: “Financialization of health in any form undermines the essence of universal health care. [...] UHC requires global solidarity. Richer countries and international financial institutions need to cancel the debts of developing countries” 💪 #WHA78
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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The youth delegate of @nlmissiongeneva.bsky.social: "1 in 3 healthcare workers feels daily exhaustion, 1 in 4 experiences burnout, and 1 in 5 faces abuse...Over 2500 attacks on healthcare have been recorded with over 1000 healthcare workers killed alone in Gaza. This cannot be the norm." #WHA78
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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Statement by the People's Health Movement's #WHOWatch team on #NCDs at #WHA78 "Neoliberal economic policies, particularly with the increasing power of big corporations, have significantly, both directly and indirectly, contributed to the rise of NCDs in developed and developing countries." @who.int
Image of People's Health Movement statement on NCDs at the World Health Assembly. Test reads: NCDs cannot be addressed in isolation from social, economic and commercial determinants of health.
Neoliberal economic policies, particularly with the increasing power of big corporations, have significantly, both directly and indirectly, contributed to the rise of NCDs in developed and developing countries.
Impoverishing policies adopted by MS, in the name of trade liberalisation and attracting foreign investment, need to be examined in light of their impact on population health. We urge Member States to adopt institutional mechanisms that undertake such evaluations.
We call for stronger regulation of private sector practices, particularly those of transnational corporations, to protect population health. This includes controls over production, marketing and advertising of their products, particularly food, confectionary, and tobacco related products.
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WHO @who.int · 24/05/2025
Day 6 of the 78th session of the World Health Assembly has just started. Follow the #WHA78 discussions on our website bit.ly/78thWorldHea...
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Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly
The 78th World Health Assembly is being held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 19–27 May 2025. The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member ...
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Reports from Gaza confirm that people are now literally dying of starvation. Western leaders have issued words of condemnation, but words are not enough. They have the power to stop this genocide now.
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
.@thirugeneva.bsky.social‬ of Knowledge Ecology International dropping truth bombs at #WHA78: "The only way to have anything remotely equal in terms of access to medicines is to fundamentally change the way we finance biomedical research and development." @who.int @jamielove.bsky.social
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
For the latest WHO Watch updates from Geneva on the ongoing World Health Assembly please follow ‪@who-watch.bsky.social‬ #WHOWatch is a People's Health Movement program, casting a political lens on health governance, aiming to inform and disrupt, and elevating local concerns to global spaces #WHA78
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Incoming Board members of @who.int #WHA78 #EB157 Cabo Verde Central African Republic Egypt El Salvador Haiti Japan Nepal Panama Saudi Arabia Serbia Solomon Islands Spain
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Committee A now discussing Notifying the International Health Regulations (2005) to Palestine #WHA78 @who.int @emmafarge.bsky.social
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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Our #WHOWatch team hard at work in Geneva casting a critical eye on the #WorldHealthAssembly and bringing a radical, grassroots critique to global health governance. #WHA78 #HealthForAll
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The World Health Assembly votes to adopt a new treaty on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. #WHA78 @who.int
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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We love opera as much as the next person. But amidst multiple intersecting global health crises, and with civil society delegations being limited to 60-second interventions in these crucial meetings, we wonder if this is the best use of time at the World Health Assembly. #WHA78 #HealthForAll
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
At the World Health Assembly, Dr Tedros of @who.int made an impassioned plea for the people of Gaza. "2 million people are starving [...] the risk of famine in Gaza is increasing with the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid, including food, in the ongoing blockade" #WHA78 @drtedros.who.int
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The World Health Assembly votes to adopt a new treaty on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. #WHA78 @who.int
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
At the World Health Assembly, Dr Tedros of @who.int made an impassioned plea for the people of Gaza. "2 million people are starving [...] the risk of famine in Gaza is increasing with the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid, including food, in the ongoing blockade" #WHA78 @drtedros.who.int
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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The @who.int Director-General delivers opening remarks to the 78th World Health Assembly #WHA78. "Every WHA is important, but this one is especially so."
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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
#WHA president addresses the WHO's fiscal crisis, urging member states to keep @who.int flexibly funded "We the member states must rise above fiscal hesitation with unified resolve. I urge every member state to...provide the organization with the flexibility to act swiftly, wisely and effectively.”
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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Ahead of #WHA78, the #People'sHealthMovement has released a position paper on the United States departure from the World Health Organization @who.int Read the paper here and share widely: phmovement.org/phm-calls-ur...
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PHM calls for urgent action to preserve, protect, and enhance the work of the World Health Organization | People’s Health Movement
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
As the World Health Organization faces a major crisis, please join this People's Health Movement webinar on the upcoming World Health Assembly, w/ Nicoletta Dentico, Baba Aye, Harris Gleckman, Lauren Paremoer and Juliette Mattijsen. May 7 at 12-13:30pm UTC @who.int phmovement.org/webinar-wha7...
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
As the World Health Organization faces a major crisis, please join this People's Health Movement webinar on the upcoming World Health Assembly, w/ Nicoletta Dentico, Baba Aye, Harris Gleckman, Lauren Paremoer and Juliette Mattijsen. May 7 at 12-13:30pm UTC @who.int phmovement.org/webinar-wha7...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We shouldn’t let this horrific attack at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival perpetuate the myth that all people with mental illness are violent. But it should remind us focusing on treatment is essential, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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We shouldn’t let this horrific attack perpetuate the myth that all people with mental illness are violent
We should endeavour to understand why violent acts like this occur and point the fingers of blame in the right direction
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Our chapter in Global Health Watch 7 on the World Health Organization's leadership role in global health. darajapress.com/wp-content/u...
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Just out: the seventh edition of Global Health Watch, the preeminent critical report on the state of global health. It was a pleasure to contribute to this book with inspiring health activists and academics from around the world. Many chapters are free to download! darajapress.com/publication/...
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Mobilizing for Health Justice: Global Health Watch 7 (English edition)
Since its first edition in 2005, Global Health Watch (GHW) – the flagship publication of the People’s Health Movement (PHM) – has been critically reporting on the state of the world’s health.…
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Please join on April 30th for a People's Health Movement webinar on Public Pharma: A path to health sovereignty and global solidarity. 👉 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Please join on April 30th for a People's Health Movement webinar on Public Pharma: A path to health sovereignty and global solidarity. 👉 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The US cuts off funding to GAVI, which provides a huge proportion of the vaccines needed by low-income countries, and to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, which (among many things) works to prevent spillover of dangerous pathogens from animals to humans. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Some reasons for hope from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social for people in the American public health community www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
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Opinion | I Shudder to Imagine Kennedy Running Our Health Agencies.
We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.
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Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD @nschwalbe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Trump Administration has scrubbed abortion from the Health and Human Services website, reports @selenasd.bsky.social of @npr.org. Here is what you get when you search the home site. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The start of a dark period for #GlobalHealth. The world needs global solidarity to prevent the worst public health catastrophes, respond to health emergencies, and expand essential care to those most in need. We need a stronger WHO, not a weaker one. @who.int www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization – The White House
WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the
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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 10/12/2024
From @kerrycullinan.bsky.social: pandemic agreement negotiations to continue in 2025. A lot hinges on Art.4 prevention and Art.12 PABS. But picture on equitable access to 💊 is muddier than this. Concerned with INB Bureau's oversimplification of issues driving divide in negotiations.
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No Pandemic Agreement This Year – And Doubt About Feasibility Of May 2025 Deadline - Health Policy Watch
There will be no pandemic agreement by year-end and, with only 10 days of formal talks set aside in 2025, some parties doubt whether an agreement can be
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The evidence of genocide against the Palestinians of the occupied Gaza Strip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8_1...
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Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis
YouTube video by Amnesty International
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 05/12/2024
Amnesty International’s new landmark report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed – and still are committing - genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. Full report, out now. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Updated! 50+ global health organizations to follow go.bsky.app/Df5hsLV
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