News Flash 620: Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

News Flash Links, as part of the research project PEAH (Policies for Equitable Access to Health), aim to focus on the latest challenges by trade and governments rules to equitable access to health in resource-limited settings

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News Flash 620

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Watch the 78th World Health Assembly sessions

WHO secures 60% of base budget for the next two years

WHA Approves First-Ever Procedure for Investigating a WHO Director General

The Costs to Global Health

EU pledges €2.3 billion at European Humanitarian Forum 2025

BREAKING – US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr Extends Olive Branch to WHO – With Strings Attached

Meeting registration: Second intersessional check in meeting ahead of WHA78

Meeting registration: EU-MiCare: Introductory Webinars & E-Learning Platform Launch Jun 10, 2025

Landmark pandemic treaty adopted despite pushback by some countries

Next Steps: Tension About How to Settle the Pandemic Agreement’s Annex

The Pandemic Treaty’s Failure to Confront Profit-Driven Injustice in Global Health by Juan Garay

The Pandemic Agreement may weaken, rather than strengthen multilateralism

Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?

An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination

ETF recommends updating COVID-19 vaccines to target new LP.8.1 variant

The proportion of people of 50+ with HIV has doubled in 10 years. What does that mean for healthcare?

Explainer: How Germs Outsmart Antimicrobials and Why It’s Making Us Sicker

Africa must lead the fight against antimicrobial resistance through hospital-based antimicrobial stewardship initiatives

From Evidence to Action: Building an Effective Independent Panel on Antimicrobial Resistance

Cross-Border Collaboration Gains Political Traction as Africa Targets Visceral Leishmaniasis Elimination

Mental health of the health workforce: the digital transformation and its tools

Enhancing Perinatal Health Through Equity-Centered Policies

Nutrition research must go local

Young people, food delivery, and corporate influence: It’s time for the public health research community to back youth leadership

Evidence missing to address burn death disparities

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #100: Four years of People’s Health Dispatch

HRR771. THE FULFILLMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS STILL WAITING FOR MORE CLAIM HOLDERS TO GAIN COMPETENCE AND DETERMINATION TO STAKE THEIR JUSTIFIED DEMANDS ON DUTY BEARERS. (Mhairi Cowden)

Explainer: What Rural Communities in Tanzania Need to Know about Carbon Trading and Land Rights

Children Are Being Poisoned Because of Bureaucratic Inertia

Famine stalks Gaza as Israel blocks aid at the border

MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe caused by siege on Gaza