News Flash 671: 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 671

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Sustainable Health Equity: A Scientific Framework for Strengthening Human Development Drawing on Cuba’s Experience and Contemporary Challenges   by Juan Garay 

Systemic path to global health 2050

Meeting registration: G2H2 workshop on Global Health Architecture Jul 28, 2026

WIPO: Developing countries press for measurable Development Agenda outcomes, patent flexibilities and equitable representation

UNPO Conference Registration Now Open

Support call for United Nations University to end its Nestlé partnership and for the UN Joint Inspection Unit to investigate compliance with UN standards

Can the Ebola response avoid another sexual abuse disaster?

A country that made huge progress on measles now reports 120,000 cases

Pakistan hit by new mass HIV outbreak among children

Can South Africa survive a post-PEPFAR future? 

From Local Evidence to Global Lessons: Vietnam’s Mask Research and the COVID-19 Pandemic  by Tham Chi Dung 

A Regional Approach to HPV Vaccine Design Can Advance Equity and Cervical Cancer Elimination

El Salvador validated by WHO as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem

DNDi 2025 Annual Report

Global childhood immunization coverage inches forward despite conflict and hesitancy – UNICEF, WHO

Fundamental changes in regulation to improve access to biosimilars

Evaluation of an application for investments in cataract surgery, Ethiopia

Application of tobacco control experience to alcohol consumption measures

Oral Public Health and Epidemiology: Foundations for Action in Yemen– A Textbook for Students and Researchers in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings  by Mahmood Md. Mohsen Al-Sakkaf, Sami A. Hosain Al-Sakkaf, Akram M. Mohammed Al-Sakkaf, Ahmed A. Abdulrahman Al-Sakkaf 

Overseas education project for women and girls axed by UK after two years

Webinar registration: Womb Policies around the World: Control and Resistance Jul 22, 2026

Stigma, Norms, and the Cost of Being a Woman—on marriage, illness, and a novel that got me thinking about both

After the Stroke: Why Health Systems Fail Their Own Doctors  by Nandini Sharma

Can Fiction Change the Way We Treat Animals?

HRR825. PRIORITIES ARE DETERMINED BY POLITICS. YES, BUT BY WHOSE POLITICS?

Aid cuts leave at least one million women and girls without vital support

Ethical Issues Conducting Research During War and Violent Conflict: A Review

Historic El Niño able to supercharge extreme weather looks increasingly likely – researchers

‘Super’ El Niño could cause global food price shock lasting into 2028, analysts say

AI Energy and Water Consumption Compounds Climate and Pollution Crises: Can It Also Be Part of The Solution?