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News Flash 652

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Health Policy Analysis in LMICs Seminar Series: Spring 2026 lineup announced (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

Social Innovation in Health Initiative

How African Governments Responded to the 2025 Aid Shock

Event registration: Reimagining financing in conflict-affected settings: lessons from education, health and social protection 25 Feb 2026

WHO Executive Board Adopts New Efficiency Measures But Can They Stick?

EB 158 – Constituency statement of Knowledge Ecology International, Health Action International, Global Health Council, World Council of Churches, and Oxfam International: WHO’s work in health emergencies

Medicines Law & Policy statement at WHO PABS negotiations (IGWG 5)

The Untold Story of Herbal Medicine in Zambia’s COVID-19 Response: Why African Governments Must Invest in Traditional Health Systems  by Muunda Mudenda

Webinar registration: IFIC Forum Discussion on Information and Technology (Nine Pillars of Integrated Care) Feb 24, 2026

Historic Africa-Led HIV Vaccine Trial Begins in South Africa

HRR804. NEOLIBERALISM: DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS? (George Monbiot)

Rethinking health-care systems to tackle social isolation and frailty

Time For State-Based Single Payer: The New York Health Act

‘After Decades of Denial and Silence, the Suffering of Rohingya People Is Being Heard at the World’s Highest Court’

Pakistan’s Baloch students are vanishing, and no one is held accountable

Helping care reach people in Daraya after years of war

Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism

Over four million girls still at risk of female genital mutilation: UN leaders call for sustained commitment and investment to end FGM

Closing the Gender Gap in Women’s Health and Labour Force Participation: G20 Call To Action  by Jeanette  Olorunniwo and Dhristi Agarwal

Science academies failing to put women at the top

A decolonial feminist perspective on gender equality programming in the Global South

The real ‘nanny tax’? Not being able to breastfeed your own baby

Three African countries agree to UK migrant returns after visa penalty threat

Floods and Food Security: The Hidden Cost to Crops and Soil

UK to cut climate finance to poor countries by a fifth despite promising more help

Intervention research to protect human health in the era of climate extremes

EU-banned pesticides widely used in Latin America

A Business Necessity: Align With Nature or Risk Collapse, IPBES Report Warns

Why Health Must Be Central to Climate Adaptation – Right from the Start