WFPHA Blog: Insights on Global Public Health
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Key Actor to Manage a Pandemic
Key Actor to Manage a Pandemic"The key actor in this pandemic is All of Us!" Who is the key actor to manage a pandemic? Prof. Bettina Borisch, member of Coalition of International NGOs for Equity, answers the question. Click on the link below to watch the video.
Global Public Health Week 2022
Global Public Health Week 2022The first edition of Global Public Health Week (GPHW) commences on April 4th 2022, with the theme "Public Health Matters: Building the New Future". It will be a hybrid event, combining face to face and digital gatherings worldwide. During...
Evidence-based Leadership Is more Important than ever before!
Evidence-based Leadership Is more Important than ever before!A Reflection by Public Health Leadership Coalition's Member - Prof. Walter Ricciardi The COVID-19 pandemic acted like a global tsunami, exacerbating the existing challenges and focusing attention of new ones...
Nutrition, Alcohol, and Environmental Impact Labels Should Protect Public Interests
Nutrition, Alcohol, and Environmental Impact Labels Should Protect Public InterestsThe WFPHA has signed "Nutrition, Alcohol, and Environmental Impact Labels Should Protect Public Interests, Not Sell Foods that are Harmful to Humans and the Planet" statement urging the...
Toward the “Next Normal”
Toward the "Next Normal"An Editorial by Public Health Leadership Coalition’s Member – Dr. Alejandro R. Jadad "Perhaps a pandemic was needed for us to give ourselves permission to notice new possibilities to live our lives." In the editorial "Toward the "Next Normal":...
Pandemic Treaty: A Public Health View
Pandemic Treaty: A Public Health ViewThe World Health Assembly (WHA) will meet in a special session from 29 November - 1 December 2021 to consider the benefits of developing a World Health Organisation (WHO) convention, agreement or another international instrument on...
Functioning of the International Health Regulations during COVID-19
Functioning of the International Health Regulations during COVID-19An Article by Public Health Leadership Coalition’s Member – Dr. Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele International Health Regulations (IHR), which came into force in 2007, aims to enable the prevention, detection, and...
What Went Wrong?
What Went Wrong?A Reflection by Public Health Leadership Coalition's Member - Prof. Martin McKee What went wrong? In 2019 the Global Health Security Index ranked the United States and the United Kingdom as first and second respectively in their preparedness for a...
Reducing Maternal Mortality Ratio in low- and Middle Income Countries
Reducing Maternal Mortality Ratio in low- and Middle-income CountriesThe World Health Organization (WHO) has long identified maternal mortality as a global priority for improving global health outcomes. Yet, the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5) to...
Policy Statement on Climate Change
Policy Statement on Climate ChangeClimate change is a global problem. It is harming human health and wellbeing today, and we have clear evidence that lack of effective response will render the global poor, people living in low lying areas, along coastlines, in the...