Robert Marten

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

📢@alliancehpsr.bsky.social opened a🆕Call for Proposals: “Realizing health taxes:co-producing knowledge & strategies to implement health taxes”
🗓Deadline26/03/26 23:59CET

Eligible countries:Cambodia,China,Kenya,Indonesia,Nigeria, South Africa,Sri Lanka,Thailand&Viet Nam
ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

The @alliancehpsr.bsky.social has a new call for proposals on #healthtaxes in #Cambodia, #China, #Kenya, #Indonesia, #Nigeria, #SouthAfrica, #SriLanka, #Thailand, and #VietNam deadline 26 March ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

Congratulations—exciting and important!

Life in Plastic: It’s Not Fantastic

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...

The @alliancehpsr.bsky.social has a new call for proposals on #healthtaxes in #Cambodia, #China, #Kenya, #Indonesia, #Nigeria, #SouthAfrica, #SriLanka, #Thailand, and #VietNam deadline 26 March ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

Peace is really almost always better.

Peace is really almost always better.

I bet this will be great! @emorwee is, age aside, a true veteran of these wars!

Masterclass in public communication

Achieving the 3 by 35 Initiative in Nigeria: Are the Current Health Taxes Strong Enough? - Nigeria Health Watch Yasir Jamal Bakare and Onyinye Oranezi (Lead writers) In July 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the 3 by 35 Initiative,...

Achieving the 3 by 35 Initiative in #Nigeria: Are the Current Health Taxes Strong Enough? articles.nigeriahealthwatch.com/achieving-th...

Protecting global health in the era of the America First Strategy As Washington recasts its global health agenda, the America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS) presents itself as a corrective to decades of aid dependence.1 Open-ended assistance is replaced with t...

"The policy challenge is therefore not how to restore a depoliticised global health order, but how to protect health systems in an environment in which leverage determines engagement and continuity." powerful piece in @lancetgh.bsky.social from Nelson Evaborhene www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The paradox of trust in health care in the age of social media Health systems worldwide face two fundamental and connected challenges: pervasive misinformation and disinformation and eroding public trust. This erosion reveals a paradox at the heart of contemporar...

"Addressing the paradox of trust requires not only technical accuracy but also co-production from outset, overarching horizontal communication, infrastructures for transparency and emotional resonance, and regulatory reforms for algorithms and digital environments" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Advancing health policy and systems research and analysis: new frontiers, renewed relevance Abstract. Health systems are at a crossroads. Globally, health systems are straining under the weight of responding to persistent and emergent challenges.

Recommended reading---> Advancing health policy and systems research and analysis: new frontiers, renewed relevance academic.oup.com/heapol/advan...

Every child deserves to protected from preventable diseases - it is their right to health

China and the World to Come • EQUATOR How elites in Beijing view the collapse of American hegemony

Pankaj Mishra interviews the Chinese scholar Zhang Weiwei about the coming multipolar order: ”I’d already said that the American model will not work for the Global South, but it doesn’t even seem to be working for the West itself now.” www.equator.org/articles/chi...

American professors, who wants to come to Oxford for a year or two? Get in quick - deadline soon.
www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/vacancy-geor...

Extreme heat lab: enduring the climate of the future Graham Readfearn enters a simulation to investigate how heatwaves affect the human body

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

China and the World to Come • EQUATOR How elites in Beijing view the collapse of American hegemony

www.equator.org/articles/chi...

'The new tobacco': The cities banning fossil fuel adverts Cities across the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, SUVs, cruise ships and petrol cars in an attempt to cut emissions.

Long overdue www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

How ‘smog capital of Poland’ saved 6,000 lives by cutting soot levels Kraków’s ban on burning solid fuels plus subsidies for cleaner heating has led to clearer air and better health

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Paralysis in public health and policy: when evidence becomes an alibi Public health operates in an era of unprecedented data availability and analytical sophistication, yet action on well-established health challenges is frequently delayed. We argue that evidence increa...

"What began as a movement towards evidence-based policy has, in some contexts, drifted into evidence-dependent policy,
where decisions are authorised only once uncertainty has
been reduced or eliminated entirely." Excellent Viewpoint in @thelancetph.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Paralysis in public health and policy: when evidence becomes an alibi Public health operates in an era of unprecedented data availability and analytical sophistication, yet action on well-established health challenges is frequently delayed. We argue that evidence increa...

"What began as a movement towards evidence-based policy has, in some contexts, drifted into evidence-dependent policy,
where decisions are authorised only once uncertainty has
been reduced or eliminated entirely." Excellent Viewpoint in @thelancetph.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"The country that, more than any other, was responsible over the past century for the construction of a durable system of international organisation appears to have abandoned a fruitful and flexible hypocrisy for a delight in force and a desire for ownership at all costs"
tinyurl.com/4zjj2xxv

Opinion | Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

Global health leap: an urgent call to action The ongoing global health crisis presents a pivotal opportunity to transform and reform the fragmented global health architecture. This Viewpoint issues an urgent call for coordinated action—a Global ...

ICYMI: Recommended Reading on the #GlobalHealth Leap from @sanianishtar.bsky.social in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Global health leap: an urgent call to action The ongoing global health crisis presents a pivotal opportunity to transform and reform the fragmented global health architecture. This Viewpoint issues an urgent call for coordinated action—a Global ...

ICYMI: Recommended Reading on the #GlobalHealth Leap from @sanianishtar.bsky.social in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Offline: Meditations of melancholy So here we are. An email last week: “tensions are very high…one has little control over the chaos of the moment. I'm so angry, and so sad. It's exhausting”. These feelings, I suspect, are pervasive. A...

"Anomie—[...] a serious disturbance of society's collective order, a sudden rearrangement or transformation of the social body, a disruption producing a state of disorganisation that creates disappointment, exasperation&suffering." from @richardhorton1.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

After the Earthquakes • EQUATOR The fundamental problem of the present is complicity

“The fundamental problem of the present is complicity” powerful editorial from @equatormag.bsky.social editors www.equator.org/articles/aft...

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

www.theguardian.com/environment/...