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

Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris)

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

News Flash 675: 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

Flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans)

News Flash 675

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

Book: India’s Undernutrition and Human Capital – Addressing the Roots by Veena S Rao

Meeting registration: IFIC Forum Discussion on Health in Context Sep 9, 2026

EPN Forum 2026: Sustainable and Resilient Health Systems for Last-Mile Access in Africa 5th – 9th October 2026

MMI participation at the WHO Civil Society Dialogues on Health Financing

UN tax talks reach critical stage as global south pushes for fairer rules

Ebola response concerns, Tigray war warnings, and Gaza’s ceasefire mirage

Haiti: MSF forced once again to suspend operations at the Isaïe Jeanty Maternity hospital amid violence

Whose fears count? Legitimacy, trust and viral outbreak responses after COVID-19

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #122: Ebola outbreak swells into largest ever in DRC

Africa CDC and WHO call for urgent, community-led action to contain Ebola in the DRC

Alarming Ebola Spread Raises Question of Viral Mutation

MSF launches dengue project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Mosquitoes are spreading dangerous dengue in US states. Here’s where to watch out

Pakistan’s HIV Surge Exposes Infection Control Failures at Health Facilities

Mixed feelings: Unintended consequences of HIV outreach care in Zimbabwe

Stretching Mpox Vaccine Supply: Madagascar’s Fractional Dosing and the Case for Doing It Better

Re-emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases in the post-elimination era

A model for the epidemiological impact of tuberculosis policy options

Foodborne Illnesses Are Skyrocketing: 6 to Know About

A new chapter for African medical innovation

Zero deaths on paper, fear in reality: In spite of Goa achievement, rabies still haunts India

HRR829. LIBERAL DEMOCRACY: IT IS TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS HISTORICAL PROCESS HAS RUN ITS COURSE AND IS PRODUCING PERVERSE EFFECTS. (Boaventura de Sousa Santos)

Hiroshima Day Appeal 2026

Palestinian Children Deserve Education, not Ethnic Cleansing

15 August 2026: Five years of Taliban oppression, repression and pervasive impunity for crimes against women and girls

Zambia: stalled reforms risk reversing human rights gains

Lebanon: Abolition of death penalty a landmark victory affirming justice must be rooted in human rights

Sudan’s war threatens an ‘entire generation’s’ future, UN warns

The World Bank Is Pouring Billions of Dollars into Large-scale Factory Farms

Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity: Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution

Early Warnings: Government Knowledge of Climate Change and Legal Responsibility for Climate Harm

News Flash 674: 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