@verboom.bsky.social
Lecturer in Global Health, Queen Mary University of London Canadian Toronto – Oxford – London
Global Impact of Attacks on Healthcare in Conflict Zones
Join Dr Swee Chai Ang of @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, Dr James Smith, & Dr Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social for this crucial discussion
July 9, 6-8pm, Milton Lecture Theatre, London. You can also join online
Register: tinyurl.com/vacans5t
The only thing I can say about Keir Starmer is thank God he wasn't PM back in May 1940.
He will go along dutifully with whatever Trump claims.
Canadians would be fools to think this punter would have our back in a showdown with Trump.
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Palestine was a dominant topic at the World Health Assembly this year.
Countries debated how to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and agreed to include Palestine to the International Health Regulations regime.
My reporting, with @pritipatnaik.bsky.social, for the Geneva Health Files.
Countries Vote in Support of Palestine at World Health Assembly, as Humanitarian and Health Crises Worsen in Gaza
Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #275 [The Files In-Depth]
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Palestine was a dominant topic at the World Health Assembly this year.
Countries debated how to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and agreed to include Palestine to the International Health Regulations regime.
My reporting, with @pritipatnaik.bsky.social, for the Geneva Health Files.
Antimicrobial resistance #AMR is an impending catastrophe
Our call to @who.int and the international community #WHA78
-End industrial factory farming
–Shift to #agroecology
–Defund factory farms
–Invest in #PublicPharma
Our future depends on it.
@psiglobalunion.bsky.social
@verboom.bsky.social
The spectre of nuclear war haunts our increasingly divided world.
My statement on the health implications of nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
Delivered on behalf of the People's Health Movement @who-watch.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social at the 78th World Health Assembly.
#WHA78
A nuclear war would inevitably be a mass casualty event.
The People's Health Movement's position on the devastating effects of #NuclearWeapons and #NuclearWar. A statement delivered to the @who.int World Health Assembly with our friends at @psiglobalunion.bsky.social.
#WHA78 @verboom.bsky.social
The spectre of nuclear war haunts our increasingly divided world.
My statement on the health implications of nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
Delivered on behalf of the People's Health Movement @who-watch.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social at the 78th World Health Assembly.
#WHA78
#WHA78 Israel has called for a recorded vote on draft resolution (A78/B/CONF./2) on Raising the flags of non-Member Observer States at the World Health Organization. @who.int
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@babaaye.bsky.social, Public Services International:
“Financialization of health in any form undermines the essence of universal health care. [...] UHC requires global solidarity. Richer countries and international financial institutions need to cancel the debts of developing countries”
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#WHA78
The youth delegate of @nlmissiongeneva.bsky.social: "1 in 3 healthcare workers feels daily exhaustion, 1 in 4 experiences burnout, and 1 in 5 faces abuse...Over 2500 attacks on healthcare have been recorded with over 1000 healthcare workers killed alone in Gaza. This cannot be the norm."
#WHA78
Image of People's Health Movement statement on NCDs at the World Health Assembly. Test reads: NCDs cannot be addressed in isolation from social, economic and commercial determinants of health. Neoliberal economic policies, particularly with the increasing power of big corporations, have significantly, both directly and indirectly, contributed to the rise of NCDs in developed and developing countries. Impoverishing policies adopted by MS, in the name of trade liberalisation and attracting foreign investment, need to be examined in light of their impact on population health. We urge Member States to adopt institutional mechanisms that undertake such evaluations. We call for stronger regulation of private sector practices, particularly those of transnational corporations, to protect population health. This includes controls over production, marketing and advertising of their products, particularly food, confectionary, and tobacco related products.
Statement by the People's Health Movement's #WHOWatch team on #NCDs at #WHA78
"Neoliberal economic policies, particularly with the increasing power of big corporations, have significantly, both directly and indirectly, contributed to the rise of NCDs in developed and developing countries."
@who.int
Day 6 of the 78th session of the World Health Assembly has just started.
Follow the #WHA78 discussions on our website bit.ly/78thWorldHea...
Reports from Gaza confirm that people are now literally dying of starvation.
Western leaders have issued words of condemnation, but words are not enough. They have the power to stop this genocide now.
"We need to progressively delink the incentives to invest in biomedical R&D from the grant of temporary monopolies. Legal monopolies on medicines predictably lead to high prices and appalling inequities of access and outcomes."
– @thirugeneva.bsky.social
#WHA78
.@thirugeneva.bsky.social of Knowledge Ecology International dropping truth bombs at #WHA78:
"The only way to have anything remotely equal in terms of access to medicines is to fundamentally change the way we finance biomedical research and development."
@who.int @jamielove.bsky.social
For the latest WHO Watch updates from Geneva on the ongoing World Health Assembly please follow @who-watch.bsky.social
#WHOWatch is a People's Health Movement program, casting a political lens on health governance, aiming to inform and disrupt, and elevating local concerns to global spaces #WHA78
Incoming Board members of @who.int #WHA78 #EB157
Cabo Verde
Central African Republic
Egypt
El Salvador
Haiti
Japan
Nepal
Panama
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Solomon Islands
Spain
Committee A now discussing Notifying the International Health Regulations (2005) to Palestine #WHA78 @who.int @emmafarge.bsky.social
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Our #WHOWatch team hard at work in Geneva casting a critical eye on the #WorldHealthAssembly and bringing a radical, grassroots critique to global health governance. #WHA78 #HealthForAll
22.05.2025 09:50 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The World Health Assembly votes to adopt a new treaty on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. #WHA78 @who.int
19.05.2025 19:43 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1We love opera as much as the next person.
But amidst multiple intersecting global health crises, and with civil society delegations being limited to 60-second interventions in these crucial meetings, we wonder if this is the best use of time at the World Health Assembly. #WHA78
#HealthForAll
At the World Health Assembly, Dr Tedros of @who.int made an impassioned plea for the people of Gaza.
"2 million people are starving [...] the risk of famine in Gaza is increasing with the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid, including food, in the ongoing blockade"
#WHA78 @drtedros.who.int
The World Health Assembly votes to adopt a new treaty on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. #WHA78 @who.int
19.05.2025 19:43 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1“More than 10,000 patients still need medical evacuation out of Gaza. [...] We ask Israel to allow these evacuations and to allow urgently needed food and medicine to enter Gaza. WHO stands ready, with our UN partners, to move rapidly to deliver it if and when it’s allowed to enter.” #WHA78
19.05.2025 11:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"People are dying from preventable diseases as medicines wait at the border, while attacks on hospitals deny people care and deter them from seeking it." @drtedros.who.int @who.int #WHA78
19.05.2025 11:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"Increasing hostilities, evacuation orders, shrinking humanitarian space, and the aid blockade are driving an influx of casualties to a health system that is already on its knees." @drtedros.who.int @who.int #WHA78
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