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Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Defending and Reclaiming WHO’s Capacity to Fulfil its Mandate: Suggestions from a Perspective of Language and Power by Judith Richter 

2021: a new year for the WHO 

Webinar registration ‘The Great Take Over: How we fight the Davos capture of global governance’ Jan 26, 2021 04:00 PM in Amsterdam 

Prince Mahidol Award Conference 29 JANUARY – 3 FEBRUARY 2021 (VIRTUAL CONFERENCE) 

Towards a new structural approach to pharmaceutical innovation, intellectual property and public health: If not now, when?  

MPP and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission partner in the field of intellectual property for COVID-19 and beyond 

New US Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci: Restores Relations With WHO & Reverses Global Health Course 

EB 148: WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) comes under scrutiny 

MSF Statement on EB148/8 – Global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property (GSPOA)  

MSF Statement on EB148/6 – Non communicable diseases 

MSF Statement on EB148/6 – Oral health and noma disease 

Italian regulator AIFA urged to take action over 577 missing clinical trial results 

 COVID-19 and the Plague Cycle 

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Weekly Update 

New Year, New Lockdown in the United Kingdom: ‘The Great Deception’ by Ted Schrecker

Virus Mapping, Pandemics Preparedness and One Health: We Need Them All

Lacking Resources & Authority, WHO Was Too Slow To Act Against COVID-19 – Says Independent Review Panel 

Civil society letter to pharmaceutical corporations making COVID-19 vaccines 

Tedros calls out ‘me-first’ approach to COVID-19 vaccines: ‘This is wrong’ 

WHO Director General Rebukes Countries For Vaccine Hoarding At Opening Of WHO Executive Board – A Look At What Else Is In Store 

Covid19 Vaccine Governance: Sidelining Multilateralism  

COVID-19 Vaccines: How and When Will Lower-Income Countries Get Access?  

Global regulators highlight key role of healthcare professionals in fostering confidence in COVID-19 vaccines 

Interim Results of a Phase 1–2a Trial of Ad26.COV2.S Covid-19 Vaccine 

La campagna vaccinale  

Health Research and Development Investment in Kenya 

Nourishing India – What Needs to Be Done by Veena S Rao 

Landlocked Lesotho faces food crisis amid Covid border closures 

Human Rights Reader 560 

UN: World facing ‘catastrophic’ temperature rise this century 

Don’t Trade Off Climate Mitigation and Development 

Shift to renewables ‘significantly decreased’ emissions, EU agency says