Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD

🗣️ “Measles is an entirely preventable disease.”

Our senior fellow @nschwalbe.bsky.social on @npr.org with to discuss falling vaccination rates and the misinformation crisis eroding trust.

Her message: We must rebuild vaccine confidence through transparency and engagement. 🎧 Listen 👇

Its very hard to know what to say about this deeply distributing change to the CDC website. It speaks for itself.

America, we are in trouble.

CDC is now actively promoting bunk science.

Vaccines save lives. They don't cause autism.

Its very hard to know what to say about this deeply distributing change to the CDC website. It speaks for itself.

America, we are in trouble.

CDC is now actively promoting bunk science.

Vaccines save lives. They don't cause autism.

Canada lost measles elimination status following 12 months of local transmission

Measles is 💯 preventable with vaccination. And transmission can be stopped

As I discussed with @gabrielleemanuel.bsky.social at @npr.org, this news reflects growing lack of confidence in vaccines

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on another note, the #manel seems to be alive and well in maga land

📢The 3rd meeting of Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG3) to develop Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing (PABS) Annex for #pandemictreaty ended today.

🎯There was solid progress: the text evolved from Bureau draft to delegate-owned, with lot of new additions across sections

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🔜 As next step, States and Stakeholders ill engage in informal intersessional discussions

📪The Bureau will define format, topics and schedule for these informals

➡️IGWG4 will take place on 1-5 Dec and continue to draft formal text.

See you then!

EXCLUSIVE: US Ties Global Health Aid To Data Sharing On Pathogens – Undermining WHO Talks - Health Policy Watch The United States (US) aims to compel countries that receive its aid to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria to share all information about “pathogens with

🔥In related news, leaked docs show US plans to tie HIV, TB & malaria support to pathogen sharing with no obligation of the US to share medical countermeasures in return.

🤚Stakeholders were firm: no bilateral deals.

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📢In joint statement with @panaction.bsky.social, @fourpawsint.bsky.social, we called for better transparency by Member States reconsidering Relevant Stakeholder access to formal sessions as observers

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🫶 The Bureau has taken great effort to engage Relevant Stakeholders, providing briefings and space to discuss how improve interactions

🗞️ All screen texts were shared daily with Stakeholders

🛑 While many States welcome Stakeholders in formal sessions, others oppose - making it a no-go.

✏️Member States reaffirmed their commitment to work in good faith, to carefully define operational details and close potential loopholes

⚖️Drafting remains operationally feasibly but politically difficult for some states - requiring a delicate balancing act.

💼After drafting operations, access to PABS materials and sequence iInformation, benefit-sharing (Sect. 2), and governance (Sect. 3) earlier this week, last day focused on expanding scope and terms (Sect. 1)

🔍Sticky points (among many) include defining categorization of users.

📢The 3rd meeting of Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG3) to develop Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing (PABS) Annex for #pandemictreaty ended today.

🎯There was solid progress: the text evolved from Bureau draft to delegate-owned, with lot of new additions across sections

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Details Matter: Getting to Work on PABS Text — Joint Statement | Pandemic Action Network

👇Check out our joint statement here:

@panaction.bsky.social, @helenclarknz.bsky.social, @fourpawsint.bsky.social, Panel for a Global Public Health Convention, and Save the Children

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The day will continue on drafting PABS Annex text behind closed doors, with focus on Section II Provisions for Implementation of the PABS System:

🪜Operation of the PABS System

🧬Access to PABS Materials and Sequence Information

🍎PABS System benefit-sharing

Stakeholder notes included:

🗺️Create comprehensive, legally binding text

✏️Operationalize benefit-sharing with clearer details

💵Integrate affordability

🧩Include stakeholders in negotiations & use technical expertise

💊Focus on diagnostics, therapeutics & knowhow, not only vaccines

Process-wise:

🏁Start line-by-line negotiations asap

🗞️Build on existing convergence & limit negotiations to critical issues

🚒Use intersessions to keep going

💪Pressure test text with experts

🎈Include Stakeholders where possible to increase trust

📆Circulate docs in all UN languages

State interventions content-wise focused on:

🦠Develop predictable system for both peacetime and pandemics

📜Ensure sovereign rights while commit to openess & transparency

⚖️Operationalize and guarantee equity

🔨 Strengthen legal commitments

🔍Design accountability and enforcement mechanism

🛑While there has been consultations with Member States to include Relevant Stakeholders also in closed negotiations, some states remain hesitant

🗨️Informal discussions continue on this matter to find solution

🌎Opening, reporting and closure sessions will be publicly broadcasted

🌄Every day starts with open session with Relevant Stakeholders

🔒Actual drafting sessions and next steps will be for Member States only

🫶DG Tedros welcomed delegates back to WHO.

🕰️As there will be only 3 meetings after IGWG3, he urged Member States to have draft text ready by end of this year – to give enough time for negotiations before April 20 hard deadline.

📍Co-chair Tovar (Brazil) opened meeting, noting that IGWG is now ready to start developing actual text.

📜 The Bureau, supported by the WHO Secretariat, has developed initial draft based on IGWG2 outline discussions, with inputs from Member States and Relevant Stakeholders.

📢Today, the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) for the #pandemictreaty started its 3rd meeting to develop a Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing (PABS) Annex. The meeting takes place on 3-7 Nov in Geneva.

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📢 As the World Health Summit begins, one question is front and center: how should global health architecture adapt? With SDG deadlines looming and funding cuts deepening, reform is no longer optional. 🧵

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⏳ Global health architecture is at a crossroad. Reform debates are moving beyond donor-driven fixes toward equity, sovereignty, sustainability, and coordination. The key question is what remains global and what shifts to national and regional levels.
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⚖️ The scope of reform varies. Some proposals seek modest adjustments within existing institutions. Others call for a complete redesign. This shows both momentum for change and raises questions over what belongs at the global level versus the national or regional level.

🌍 Together they capture different pathways to organize, govern, and finance global health.
Despite their differences, these proposals overlap on key principles:
✔️ Equity
✔️ Sovereignty and country ownership
✔️ Sustainability
✔️ Coordination

💡 Our new paper with @claragreiner.bsky.social and @sulehti.bsky.social, we summarize five reform initiatives: the Lusaka Agenda, the @wellcometrust.bsky.social initiative, a @nature.com Medicine commentary, the Gavi Leap, and the Accra Initiative.

📢 As the World Health Summit begins, one question is front and center: how should global health architecture adapt? With SDG deadlines looming and funding cuts deepening, reform is no longer optional. 🧵

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