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Call to Governments to Support the TRIPS Waiver Proposal to End the COVID-19 PandemicThe time is now to stop vaccine nationalism, private profiteering, and stand in solidarity with the world for health equity and human rights. WFPHA joins the urgent call to...

Logistics and Distribution: Getting Shots into Arms2020 will be remembered as one of the most significant and devastating years in humanity’s history. The success story, amid all the chaos and suffering, was the unprecedented speed at which several vaccines against...

Building Confidence in COVID-19 VaccinationThe COVID-19 vaccines bring the promise of a global rescue from the coronavirus pandemic; however, building people’s confidence in these new vaccines seems to be a herculean task. Myths and misinformation are arising online...

Communication and Trust: Keeping the Public Informed and On BoardThe COVID-19 vaccine rollout is a monumental challenge across multiple domains for any country. One major aspect that governments must consider ensuring is clear communication and maintaining the trust...

Tobacco Control Policies Matter: Global Evidence from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project In the latest episode of Tobacco Control Talks, Dr. Geoffrey T. Fong, Founder and Principal Investigator of the International Tobacco Control Policy...

Which Vaccines and Why: The Evidence and the DealsIn December 2019, SARS-CoV2 announced itself to the world as an entirely brand-new pathogen. We had no data to work with (except experience with other coronaviruses), no immunity in any human population, no...

WFPHA Requests Reconsideration of the Plan to Close the Andalusian School of Public HealthOnce again, WFPHA wrote a letter to ask for reconsideration regarding the bill proposing the dissolution of the Andalusian School of Public Health (ASPH). The WFPHA initially put...

Operation Vaccination: An Analysis of Global COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout StrategiesThe COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest public health crisis of our lifetimes. Mass immunization is the best chance we have of conquering the disease, but it presents a fiercely complex...

COVID-19 Pandemic in the Amazon – An Urgent Need for International SolidarityAmazon, a region with so much natural wealth, is the homeland of amongst the poorest people in the Americas, including a high proportion of Indigenous Peoples. The poor and neglected...

Public Health Answers: How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Health Literacy?COVID-19 has led to rapid changes in behavior, reaffirming the need to understand and apply accurate health information. As we spend more time engaging with the world virtually, we are...