News Flash 492: 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

Amberjacks (Seriola Dumerili)

News Flash 492

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

What are the priorities for the new UK prime minister?

The UK’s Trade and Development agenda can help tackle global inflation and the cost of living crisis

Dr Luis Pizarro becomes new Executive Director of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative

Need to review proposed health financing model

Outcomes-Based Approaches to Health Care Finance Can Address Unmet Needs

WHO: Public hearings regarding a new international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response

UN Approves High-Level Pandemic Summit

ECDC-EMA statement on booster vaccination with Omicron adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccines

Why Paxlovid is still not available in many LMICs

New Initiative Will Enable Speedy Introduction of COVID-19 Antivirals in Africa and Southeast Asia

Commission urges bloc to act now in preparation for COVID-19 winter surge

Audio Interview: Covid-19 and the WHO

Chengdu, Chinese city of 21m, has Covid lockdown extended indefinitely

Covid-19 and the Global South by Christiane Fischer

Back to School: COVID, CDC Guidance, Monkeypox, and More

Intradermal Vaccination for Monkeypox — Benefits for Individual and Public Health

After smallpox, can other diseases be eradicated?

The Polio Outbreak and What Needs to Be Done To Eradicate the Virus Globally

A Breakthrough Tuberculosis Treatment Just Got Safer

Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings

HRR 645 RIGHTS OF NATURE: WE NEED AN ATTITUDE THAT IS MORE BIOCENTRIC (OR ECOCENTRIC OR GAIACENTRIC) ROOTED IN THE CONCEPT OF ‘ONENESS’

‘Health Too’ by Women in Global Health

Healthy workplaces for a healthy living

The importance of Community Mental Health for refugees

244M children won’t start the new school year (UNESCO)

Five Things to Look for at the UN’s Transforming Education Summit

Smoking control in China: A need for comprehensive national legislation

Fertiliser stranglehold in Africa

Air Pollution Kills Millions Every Year: Action Needed

Pakistan floods pose urgent questions over preparedness and climate reparations

Large parts of Amazon may never recover, major study says

Rich nations to fund 80% of S.Africa’s climate plan with loans, some hard to unlock

What is COP27?