At #UNGA80, global leaders will re-commit to addressing NCDs & mental health. I’m excited to take part in this high-level side event to translate political commitment into practical action for NCD prevention and care. Stay tuned for the post-event recap! #ActOnNCDs

“By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again” @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

A handful of Republican senators have joined their Democratic colleagues in expressing alarm over the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and gutting of USAID.

Frustratingly, I once again hear folks in the econ-adjacent, 'aid reform' camp going soft on PEPFAR -- ready to jetisson billions in life-saving HIV aid to get peanuts for innovation, incubator funds and the like. PEPFAR works. We're winning the war on AIDS. Hold the line.

Some hard-hitting reporting from @stephanienolen.bsky.social about the life-saving US aid programmes frozen this week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself www.economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist

Great piece from @petersinger.bsky.social on the life-saving potential of expanding access to GLP-1 drugs at an affordable price in LMICs - especially for people with obesity and/or diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Also need to 📈 taxes on sugary drinks Hope 🇿🇦 and #G20 are listening. #NCDs

My plan tonight was LFC v Real Madrid. My better half had other ideas. From why Trump won, to political education of young people, & lack of narrative among progressives, it was a great conversation between @juliagillard.bsky.social & @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social. Thanks @giwlkings.bsky.social

Worldwide health R&D spending is $69bn. Know how much of that goes to contraceptives? $129m or 0.18%. Only $13m in total, everywhere in the world, goes to developing contraception for men policy-cures-website-assets.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/u...

Excellent thread A working paper prepared for our new Lancet Commission on Investing in Health estimates a >20% chance of a pandemic of COVID-like magnitude in the next 10 years We estimate there were 23 million excess deaths during emergency phase of COVID, almost all attributable to COVID 1/2

Kids have me on cabbie duty this evening, but #Spotify knew exactly what I needed: 1. Communards & Sarah Jane Morris - Don’t leave me this way 2. Soul to Soul - Back to life 3. Black Box - Ride on Time 4. Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam 5. The Source feat Candi Station - You got the love

As COP29 concludes, Al Jazeera examines the 359 million weather-related displacements recorded worldwide since 2008 ⤵️

Next up in our glorious FT annual round-up of the best books of the year: Martin Wolf shares his selection of must-reads from the world of economics. Lots of other goodies - from tech to crime - with more to come. And then all brought together print on Saturday. Dive in! Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024

Breaking News: Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction for “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”