Katri Bertram

TIME Reveals the 2026 TIME100 Health List of the World’s Most Influential Leaders in Health TIME reveals the third annual TIME100 Health list, recognizing the 100 most influential individuals in health.

Time Magazine loses credibility when it platforms RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, and Marty Makary—individuals who have pushed misinformation, weakened public health, and backed policies that cost lives.

This isn’t recognition.
It’s normalization of harm

time.com/7373386/time...

I’m taking a few days off this week, but instead of #digitaldetox I’ve decided to spend a few (tedious) hours #digitalcleansing.
✔️ Unsubscribing what I always just delete
✔️ Unfollowing what is no longer relevant in my feed
✔️ Removing connections from a a different lifetime I don’t even remember

I miss the years of hashtag movements, which simply nailed a cause: eg #metoo or #blacklivesmatter. The Epstein reporting suffers from constantly pointing to one (now dead) man, instead of the entire sick web of culprits and complicity.

Newsletter

Check out this week's IHP news 865: On WHO's 158th Executive Board meeting & much more. www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u...

Ach Germany 😭
@katjaberlin.bsky.social @zeit.de

Let me fix this title: Grand old men of capitalism continue to haunt vulnerable women and girls

More than a third of cancers arise from preventable risks Smoking, infections and alcohol are the top causes

A new study has found that 38% of the nearly 20m new cancers worldwide in 2022 were caused by preventable factors. Two risks stand out virtually everywhere

“populist politics, corruption and squeezing critical media not only go together, but mutually reinforce each other” 👇

A personal side-note: I wonder what the critics of the decolonization movement from the past years would say now in a phase of might is right and active imperialism. Still a "diversion" and "unhelpful battle of radicals"?

Prashanth Srinvas suggests that one route to decolonization may be to value locally embedded expertise as global health (rather than the people who claim to have expertise and solutions for entire continents and globally).

"Colonization didn't end in the 1960s. Extractive colonization exists now." An important reminder from @seyeabimbola.bsky.social from today's decolonising #globalhealth keynote at @itmantwerp.bsky.social (I'm following online now).

Chapter 1 of your book…here folding out live again.

New York City joins UN health network after Trump withdrew US from WHO The New York City Health Department on Wednesday said it has joined the World Health Organization's global outbreak response network following President Donald Trump's withdrawal of the U.S. from the ...

🇺🇸🇺🇳 #NewYork city and several U.S. states to join World Health Organization global outbreak response network in defiance of #Trump's withdrawal from @who.int

The Governors of #California and #Illinois have also said their states will join this WHO network.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Strange (or not?) that they haven’t posted to a more open pool via LinkedIn (yet?)

Any organization taking funds from these billionaires should seriously consider whether they are abiding to their ethical funding guidelines.

Like all bubbles, the illusion that billionaires are successful saviours has, in 2026 the latest, popped.

Time to open your eyes and ears if you’re still hero-praising these broligarchs who tred on democracy (and women) like dirt.

And the richest man on the planet didn’t know these same people and have direct access already…? wtf

🤯 All. Of. This.

MenopaUSe I wrote this blog in my head, lying awake for four hours in the night, with jet lag. Except: I have been at home and in the same timezone for weeks. Welcome to my menopause journey…

And have you ever heard of “frozen shoulder”? Well I now have, and guess what it’s linked to and whether there’s any information or treatment, even among specialists? 😩https://katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/06/21/menopause/

Did you know only 5% of R&D goes into anything related to women’s health? I didn’t, but being in #menopause, this is really sinking in as I navigate the #healthsystem: no awareness, diagnoses, or treatments for most (some painful and scary) ailments.
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Every word of this 💯

It is time for a World Health Assembly resolution on global health architecture reform - LSE Global Health Ahead of this week’s World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board meeting, Dr Arush Lal (Visiting Fellow, LSE Health) argues for the adoption of a resolution to support coordination of fragmented g...

What began as a crisis of resources now risks becoming a crisis of direction for global health governance.

My latest op-ed argues for the World Health Assembly to initiate a time-bound, member state-led process to unify fragmented global health architecture reforms.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/globalhealth...

Demokratie: Sind wir Pseudodemokraten? Theoretisch mögen die meisten Menschen die Demokratie. Praktisch wählen viele von ihnen autoritäre Populisten. Wie die Forschung diesen Widerspruch erklärt

Worth a read. Food for thought on whether value-based arguments work to defend democracy, or inequality-based ones (I’d go for both 😉): www.zeit.de/2026/05/demo...

In der Nacht auf Dienstag: Kinder schlafen während russischer Luftangriffe in einer U-Bahn-Station in Kiew. dpa

Weil ich in der FAZ gerade dieses Bild sehe:

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For those who still praise this man as a saviour. And no, there’s no “personal”/“private life” justification here 👇

A research in context panel from the article, which reads: Added value of this study This study combined retrospective data and projections for the near future, up to 2030, across a broader set of countries, especially those most vulnerable to ODA shocks, to fully understand the effects of international cooperation and its potential fluctuations on mortality amidst the ODA funding crisis. Our models forecast an additional 22·6 million deaths across all ages, including 5·4 million deaths in children younger than 5 years, by 2030, under a severe defunding scenario; even under a mild defunding scenario, the projected number of excess deaths by 2030 is 9·4 million across all ages and 2·5 million among children younger than 5 years. Implications of all the available evidence Sudden and severe reductions in ODA funding could have catastrophic consequences, with a potential global death toll comparable to—or even exceeding—that of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even modest defunding that simply extends current downward trends is likely to lead to sharp increases in preventable adult and child mortality, potentially resulting in tens of millions of excess deaths in the coming years.

Published today in The Lancet Global Health: A modelling study on current worldwide trends in humanitarian and developmental assistance finds that cuts up to 2030 are projected to cause up to 22.6m additional deaths, inc. 5.4m children u5. Available Open Access - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Kältebus | Kältehilfe Vom 1. November eines jeden Jahres bis zum darauffolgenden 31. März sucht der Kältebus mit seinem Team nach hilflosen Wohnungslosen und versorgt sie.

The nr of people sleeping rough in -10 & colder is exploding in Berlin.
🚐 Donate to a Kältebus, call emergency services if needed: www.berliner-stadtmission.de/kaeltebus
🏢 Ask for your work to open public areas (& bathrooms) to people in need
🏥 Advocate for mental & drug-user support & services.

Oh… will there be a recording? 🤞