News Flash 683: 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

Salema (Sarpa salpa)

News Flash 683

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Is the World Ending? A Lancet Commission Says Maybe

Policy Research At The National Institutes Of Health: An Imperative In Peril

The Global South needs reparations, not more loans

From failed ‘Billions to Trillions’ promise to debt crisis: New reports expose failures of World Bank and IMF finance models

WHO welcomes adoption of United Nations political declaration on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response

Kenya Ebola case exposes contact tracing failures, says Africa CDC chief

Webinar registration: Implementing Community-Enabled Integrated Care: Experiences from Singapore and Australia Oct 27, 2026

Africa CDC Introduces New Public Health Training Accreditation Framework

Global Health Matters Podcast LIVE | GHL 10a | WHS 2026

Capacity for national health policy modelling, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Zambia signs US health deal after disputes over data-sharing

Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, the West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon – October 10, 2026 

HRR838. THE HYPOCRITICAL NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION. (cooperation…?)

From Gaza to the Fishing Coasts: The FAO’s Director-General Turns His Back on Human Rights

States Must Choose: Human Rights or Corporate Impunity

Who cares for the carers? Malnutrition and its mental health toll

The family foundation spending itself out of existence to end FGM

Global Health Matters podcast/Realizing childhood cancer care without borders

Providing palliative care to women with cervical cancer

Achieving Better Hypertension Control in Low- and Middle-Income Settings

Demonstrating the Value of Value-Based Care

Improvements to pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, Ethiopia

Hunger Can Be Eradicated: Latin America and the Caribbean Show How

Tigray faces a double catastrophe: War and worsening hunger

Reflections from the Micronutrient Forum’s 7th Global conference in Accra

Who Really Emits the Most? The Hidden Inequality of Carbon Emissions

Derna’s Flood Was a Climate and Health Warning for Libya  by Meftah Lahwel

Conflict, drought increasing risk of famine in Sudan: Monitor

Climate change is an HIV story. Here’s how to report it

Yemen Is a Climate Justice Test the International Community Is Failing