Writing about global health and climate change
Yes, it’s that time of year again: who cares if Trump is now President of Venezuela, we have the 158th meeting of the World Health Organisations’ Executive Board to distract us! I dream of the…
One of the advantages of velux windows that is rarely (never) mentioned in the brochures is that they don’t just function as windows; they also function as doors. Which is great if you’re a teenager…
As with previous years, 2026 began with a flourish of pyrotechnics. But in a deviation from the norm, this year those pyrotechnics were less fireworksy and more coupsy in nature. Obviously, I’m talking about the…
Quite out of the blue, I was contacted a couple of weeks back by the Secretary-General of the Swiss Association for Science Journalism who invited me to deliver a keynote speech at the Association’s yearly ‘Fall…
Is there any point in writing about this farce of a strategy? Not really. I mean, for me sure because it’s cathartic. Writing blogposts is far less painful than punching a wall or myself in…
Ilona Kickbusch, Michel Kazatchkine and Peter Piot have written a new Guest Essay over on Geneva Health Files in which they have a bit of a rethink about the role of the WHO in a…
This is the title of a webinar I’m talking at on Wednesday 16 July hosted by PHM, TWN and G2H2. You can register here. The general focus of the webinar is to explore the consequences…
It’s not an easy task tracking WHO funding, especially this year with the fallout from Trump withdrawing his support. I find that the best way to make sense of it all is to write about…
Only joking! I hate that stupid metaphor. Only amateurs use it in their writing – begone amateurs. Be. Gone. Anyway, where were we? Oh yes, it’s World Health Assembly time, a time when delegates from…
You will have seen some reporting this week on the dismal state of WHO financing. In particular, two reports from Health Policy Watch’s Elaine Fletcher (here and here) and one from Priti Patnaik over at…