Inequality: A Threat to Humanity and the Planet

An Article by Public Health Leadership Coalition’s Member – Dr. Melissa Sweet

Oxfam International recently released a report, “Inequality Kills: The unparalleled action needed to combat unprecedented inequality in the wake of COVID-19”. It draws connections between the public health crises of growing inequality, the pandemic and climate change, and also proposes some solutions (that will require courageous leadership).

The article “The Billionaire Variant – A Threat to Humanity and the Planet” discusses the new report on rising global inequalities.

Ensuring Vaccine Equity

“Vaccine equity means that all countries should be able to immunize their populations.”

How can we ensure vaccine equity? Prof. Alison McCallum of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and Usher Institute, member of Coalition of International NGOs for Equity, answers the question.

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Public Health Leadership Coalition: A Call to Action

Global challenges can only be overcome through global efforts and the adoption of appropriate global approaches to address health threats at the animal, human, and environmental interfaces.

Global public health leaders, working within the framework of the World Federation of Public Health Associations, have called for actions to promote equity, public health leadership and global coordination to address pressing global health challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic and other health threats.

Facing Leadership that Kills!

An Article by Public Health Leadership Coalition’s Member – Dr. Alejandro R. Jadad

Despite the growing number of reports describing myriad ways in which leaders failed the populations they were meant to protect during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a dearth of practical interventions to expose them and to make their misdeeds known to the world.

In the article “Facing Leadership that Kills”, we can learn how public health reimagine ways to protect the population and reinvent itself amid a pandemic.

End the Genocide of the Yanomami People!

The World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA), the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO) and the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA) denounce the Brazilian Federal Government’s omissive and conniving attitude towards the alarming situation experienced by the Yanomami and Ye’kwana peoples in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (TIY), located on the Brazilian-Venezuela border.

Once again, the gold mining industry has invaded their traditional territory: more than twenty thousand miners are occupying and degrading their lands, forests, waterways, food sources, health, and community life in recent years.

The WFPHA, ABRASCO and ABA urge the global community to support the urgent appeal of the indigenous peoples regarding the gravity of the health situation and the urgency of measures to protect life and health of the Yanomami and Ye’kwana peoples.