WFPHA Blog: Insights on Global Public Health
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WFPHA Has Joined the WHO’s Campaign for #VaccinEquity
WFPHA Has Joined the WHO's Campaign for #VaccinEquityHealth workers have been at the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic response. In January 2021, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called all countries to work together in solidarity to...
Coalition of International NGOs Call for Equitable Access for Vaccines and Treatment during COVID-19 Pandemic
Coalition of International NGOs Call for Equitable Access for Vaccines and Treatment during COVID-19 PandemicAround the world, governments are struggling to find ways to work together and control the spread of COVID-19. The virus does not recognize national...
Call to Governments to Support the TRIPS Waiver Proposal to End the COVID-19 Pandemic
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 Arms
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...
Tobacco Control Policies Matter: Global Evidence from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project
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...
Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination
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 Board
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...
Which Vaccines and Why: The Evidence and the Deals
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 Health
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 Strategies
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...