Six years ago, the Director-General of the World Health Organization sounded the highest global alarm available under international law at...
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Then German Chancellor Angela Merkel and WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus open the WHO’s Pandemic Surveillance Hub in...
Winning the world’s health lottery is a lonely business in the current climate. “It’s like being an orphan in a...
Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the “First Opinion Podcast” interview with vaccine and global health expert Seth...
In May 2025, the World Health Assembly reached a milestone with the adoption of the Pandemic Agreement , a treaty...
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Agreement’s adoption follows three years of intensive negotiation launched due to gaps and inequities identified in national and global COVID-19...
