News Flash 676: 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 676

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

World Humanitarian Day: Why humanitarian settings need more research, not less

Reforming global health for an age of mistrust, fragmentation and overlapping crises

Measuring the composition and availability of human resources for health by sex in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023, and workforce gaps for universal health coverage: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

AI Philanthropy Should Buy the Breakthroughs Markets Won’t

IFIC Canada Webinar: Digitally Enabled Integrated Care: Ambition, Adoption, and Scale Sep 8, 2026

IFIC Scotland Webinar: Community Hospitals across the Globe Sep 16, 2026

Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, the West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon – August 15, 2026

SA and Zambia’s HIV shot dilemma: Demand versus supply

Ebola Outbreak Becomes Deadliest in DR Congo’s History

Other health emergencies must not be neglected in eastern DRC

World Mental Health Day 2026: Announcing This Year’s Theme

Iodine Network: 2025 annual report

Construction and Practice of the County Integrated Healthcare System in China: A Case Study of Shaxian, Sanming

HRR830. WOMEN’S RIGHTS: POLICY WITHOUT POLITICAL WILL IS NOT JUST INEFFECTIVE –IT IS VIOLENCE. # (Sulakshi Ram)

Americas: Regional Conference on Population and Development must uphold international commitments on gender equality

Ceuta’s border crisis is about geopolitics, not just migration

Indigenous communities file complaint in Norway against Statkraft under Transparency Act – Initiative for Transnational Justice – ProDESC

Sign the Petition – Norway: Save the Pilmaiquén

USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying

Nearly 4 million Afghan children ‘acutely malnourished’

Aid shortages and fears of starvation as Indonesia reels from deadly earthquake

Colombia earthquake: UN ramps up aid for 100,000 people

As Funding Shrinks, Africa’s SRHR Movement Vows Not to Retreat

‘Syringes on beaches’ as hospital waste goes unchecked

No Limits: Ryan Eddowes on Disability, Wildlife & Conservation

What to expect at this year’s desertification COP

As Mongolia Hosts COP17, Pastoralists Demand Space to Move, Survive and Restore

Indigenous Peoples Call for Meaningful Influence in Climate Discussions — Nia Tero

UN plastic treaty is going backwards, experts say

Register: BlueAdapt final conference: Climate change & health: building resilience and reducing risks in coastal environments 22 September, 2026