News Flash 602: 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 602

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

The Year 2024: Hopes & Despairs

What’s shaping aid policy in 2025

If US Pulls Out of WHO, Will Other Member States Step Up?

WHO Bulletin: The ethics of research into health and climate change: call for papers

Webinar registration: Challenging the idea of “substandard and falsified medical products “: what role for WHO in facilitating geographically diversified medical manufacturing? Jan 21, 2025

Meeting registration: NCDA/UNIGE access to medicines, diagnostics and medical devices Jan 23, 2025

Join us for the online launch of the G-FINDER 2024 Neglected Disease R&D Report Thursday 30 JAN 2025, 13:00-14:30 GMT

What justifies public engagement in health financing decisions?

The Revised Declaration of Helsinki—Considerations for the Future of Artificial Intelligence in Health and Medical Research

AI chatbot deployed to target drug resistance

Bridging the Digital Divide in Health Care: A New Framework for Equity

5 years after UK aid merger, 60% of development adviser jobs are empty

Navigating the Labyrinth: Addressing the Structural Challenges for IMGs in the UK Healthcare System  by G. Zangana, C. Flores, A. Elseraty, T. Wardani 

New EU rules for health technology assessments become effective

Medicine availability and affordability for paediatric cancers, China

Fragmented markets for older antibiotics and child formulations, Denmark, Norway, Sweden

Prices, availability, and affordability of adult medicines in 54 low-income and middle-income countries: evidence based on a secondary analysis

Drug Price Negotiation Requires Oversight To Protect Older Americans

Monitoring essential medicines access—unfinished business

Pakistan’s New Commitment to End Hepatitis Needs a People-Centered Approach

Improving Primary Healthcare in Pakistan – Transformation of an Underutilized Resource to Become a Beacon of Hope for Women and Children

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #92: AMR and medical genocide as weapons of imperialist war

Australia violated rights of asylum seekers held in Nauru, UN watchdog says

To succeed, Kenya should learn from other social health insurance reforms

HRR753. WHO KILLED CLASS IN ECONOMICS? INEQUALITY WAS TRADITIONALLY THE CENTRAL CONCERN OF ECONOMISTS –UNTIL IT WAS NOT

150 Nobel and World Food Prize winners call for food security ‘moonshot’

Food Security – Back to Basics  by Philip J Gover 

Solving climate change requires changing our food systems

Addressing Climate Change by Changing Our Food Systems

Health is the new Global Plastics Treaty Battleground

Earth records hottest ever year in 2024 and crosses key 1.5C threshold