News Flash 647: 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 647

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Emerging Problems, Emerging Solutions, Emerging Voices

Podcast: What does 2026 hold for global development?

Health, Hope, and Resistance in an Age of War, Inequity, and Ecological Breakdown   by Juan Garay

United States Withdrawal From Organizations Triggers Global Alarm

US Retreat from Multilateral Institutions Undermines Rule Of Law 

Webinar registration: GPSS Network webinar: Substandard & Falsified Medicines 15 Jan 2026

Webinar registration: Taking stock of the Draft Global Plan of Action for Indigenous Peoples’ Health Jan 19, 2026

Webinar registration: Serious Food Safety Failings expose global health risks of unregulated online cross-border promotion Jan 19, 2026

Shadows and Light: Navigating the Radiology Frontier in Ethiopia  by Melaku Kebede 

Trend analysis and modelling of universal health coverage, Ethiopia

The Stories That Touched Me Deeply  by Innocent Musore

Why Does Africa’s R&D Debate Feel Stuck?

What Happens When R&D Depends on Outsiders?

Why Trump’s Compact for Academic Excellence Matters for Global Health

HHS Changes Its Pediatric Vaccine Recommendations: What’s Different, What Remains, and What It Means for American Health

CGD Podcast: Vaccines in a Changing Global Health Landscape with Seth Berkley

EXCLUSIVE: Germany to Halve Funding for Pandemic Hub Amid Global Health Pull-back

WHO definitions for reserve antibiotics

New research shows how to tackle literacy crisis in developing nations

Effective care for mothers and their babies during humanitarian crises

Attempt to overturn the Gambia’s ban on FGM heard by supreme court

Violence against women: preventing the preventable

HRR799. CONTINUED INACTION DESPITE G20 REPORT ON WORSENING INEQUALITY

Excluding Food Systems From Climate Deal Is a Recipe for Disaster

UN report chronicles intensification of decades of severe racial discrimination by Israel in occupied West Bank

Beyond Belém: What COP30 Means for Africa

Côte d’Ivoire’s bid to take a leading role in African climate investment

Key Moments for Climate and Health Diplomacy in 2026

Climate, pests and pollution fuel crop losses across India

‘We need to rethink how we approach biodiversity’: an interview with IPCC ecologist and ‘refugee scientist’ Camille Parmesan