FIFA ❌ Awards a dubious Peace Prize with one hand … while deporting a referee, restricting the travel of a national team, and nullifying a red card bans with the other VAR check complete: “corrupt”

Defeat snatched from the jaws of mediocrity … 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Groundhog Day 2026

Researchers say ultra-processed foods are not just “convenient.” They are part of a commercial system that has engineered, marketed & normalized products linked to obesity, diabetes, cancer & dementia. ⚠️ ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @nickchartres.bsky.social @umich.edu @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

“Stop stealing our #HealthWorkers!”… check it out ⤵️

@who.int recorded 579 attacks on health care in #Ukraine in 2025, causing deaths and injuries among patients and health workers. New attacks have continued into 2026, intensifying concern at #WHA79. #GlobalHealth #HealthSecurity #HumanitarianHealth #WorldHealthAssembly 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

“If Britain continues to benefit from internationally trained health workers, it should invest in the health systems it recruits from.” Powerful advocacy from @drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

⚠️Lower-income countries are training nurses who are then recruited abroad, while their own health systems lose clinicians, educators and leaders. INSIDE VIEW: @howardcatton.bsky.social; @intcouncilofnurses.bsky.social 📖⬇️& 🔁🙏

Powerful leadership from Philippines Minister Teddy Herbosa at packed #WHA79 side event on #healthworkforce. “We have spent a decade or more building the evidence & consensus. Key test now is to act” argues Prof Jim Campbell in stunningly lucid reflections on his time @who.int #healthpartnerships

How (not) to organise a panel at a global health conference www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🌍 The #Africa Region doesn’t lack vision: it lacks #governance that delivers. Health sovereignty won’t come from more plans, but from institutions that navigate the politics & issues. Get governance right, and ambition = investment = impact #HealthSovereignty #AfricaRising #WorldHealthSummit

🌍 The African Region isn’t facing a #HealthWorkforce crisis - it is facing an #investment opportunity: The Region produces the workforce talent. The world benefits. Now is the time to step up and co-invest in their #jobs, #skills & #retention. My Substack Post ✍️ open.substack.com/pub/paulmars...

🌍 >250,000 health workers trained in Africa/year, can’t find jobs…while high-income countries recruit them with no co-investment in return. A crisis in plain sight. The evidence is clear: investing in health workers = economic growth + resilience + better health outcomes. Employ. Retain. Now.

The G.O.A.T 🇪🇬 👑 🫶🏽

🚨 NEW: Today’s UK ODA allocations raise serious concerns for global health. With major cuts across regions — including a 56% reduction in bilateral aid to Africa — the implications are significant. Our full reaction and analysis 👇 actionforglobalhealth.org.uk/oda-allocati...

The Myanmar nurses dodging drones to graduate from a secret jungle school

Cuts of 56% in UK health funding directly threatens years of investment in global health partnerships, health systems & workforce strengthening. This week’ UK Global Health Summit showed us the best in frontline impact. Let’s not lose this. #UKAid #GlobalHealth www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I am incredibly proud of my colleague @margaretcaffrey.bsky.social at @globalhealthpart.bsky.social , lead author on this APPG report ‘An honest account’ #ExpertsInOurMidst #UKGlobalHealthSummit globalhealth.inparliament.uk/news/appg-pu...

"I am proud of this country. I am proud of the NHS. But we must recognise that our health system has been built, in part, on the contributions of people from around the world." @monicaharding.bsky.social #UKGlobalHealthSummit #globalNHS #ExpertsInOurMidst globalhealth.inparliament.uk/news/appg-pu...

New UK inquiry report calls for co-investments in source country & domestic health systems and #healthworkers Ethical migration is a win-win globalhealth.inparliament.uk/news/appg-pu...

❌ Business as usual ✅ Mutual benefit. ✅ Diaspora empowerment. ✅ Resilient #healthsystems All set for the convo at #UK #GlobalHealthSummit 2026 (March 16–18) on shaping tomorrow’s #health together. See your there 👇

"The US is now pursuing biological data and pathogen intelligence through policies that risk reproducing the power imbalances of colonial extraction in new scientific form...African bodies are not cheap, expendable commodities." www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...

The #UK Global #HealthWorkforce Programme empowered #HealthWorkers across Africa to deliver #HealthForAll It is vital for both the #UK and the world 🌍 The logic was simple: #Invest & prevent #health threats at source. It’s momentum must not be lost 🤍 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

It was Gordon Brown who launched the #HealthPartnerships approach in 2007, harnessing #NHS expertise to drive #UHC delivery in #LMICs. It is this Labour Govt which is ending this work, 18 years later. A sad moment. #UKGlobalHealthSummit @katlay.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Much of the UN Commission on the Status of Women document addressed improving justice for victims of gender-based violence - and only the US voted against it. #CSW70 healthpolicy-watch.news/us-isolated-...

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

#SouthSudan "Access to health care is absolutely not insured anymore. Hospital are sometimes destroyed, health facilities are closing." - Christopher, Country Director. Since the Mar. 6 evacuation orders, 100ks in Akobo are facing an impossible choice: leave their homes or face violence.

3 days. One shared goal: Shaping Tomorrow’s Health, Together 🌍 Join up to 300 delegates per day at the #UKGlobalHealthSummit 2026 in London to co‑create solutions for stronger, fairer health systems. 👉 Secure your pass: whova.com/portal/regis...

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

USAID's dismantling & ongoing aid cuts from Western donors are jeopardizing vital services & programs for women and girls globally, especially in humanitarian crises. For International Women’s Day, explore Devex articles on how foreign aid cuts impact women & girls worldwide🧵 #IWD2026 #aidcuts

“The Middle East has become the deadliest place in the world: - to be a medical worker - to be a humanitarian - to be a UN team member - to be a journalist And one of the deadliest to be a civilian.” – UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini

genevasolutions.news/global-news/... For decades UN salaries have been benchmarked against US Federal civil service salaries. Perhaps, if the US fulfilled its international obligations and contributed what it owes to the UN organisations, this conversation would be moot.

"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

In 2024 NHS staff reported working unpaid overtime equivalent to at least 49 000 full time employees. A BMJ data analysis finds this discretionary effort, which has long underpinned NHS service delivery, is declining. What does this mean for workforce planning? https://bit.ly/4cBRFOU

On the cover of The Lancet: Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure” Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

The #UK’s looming migrant #healthworker crisis: #Nurse visas: down by 93% #careworkers: down 97% Misguided migration is: - Worsening skill shortages - Undermining an exhausted workforce This isn't just border policy; it's life-or-death for the vulnerable www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Immigration has benefited the UK by filling critical skill and labour shortages. In fact without immigrants our public services - particularly health and social care would not be able to function.

What a perfect day for John Oliver to do a Twitter takedown

One year after the Trump Administration funding cuts: SA’s #HIV response is still reeling. Thousands of health workers lost their jobs. Clinics closed overnight. And the R2-billion pledge that brought relief for some programmes ends in March. What happens next? bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

🌍 The race for the next @who.int Director-General has quietly begun. With a $1B funding gap, U.S. withdrawal, internal reform battles, and geopolitical fractures, the next leader must be both technocrat and diplomat. @wellcometrust.bsky.social @gavi.org @drtedros.who.int 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

FIFA … unpresidential

💔 More than 160,000 women died in conflict and fragile settings in 2023 from pregnancy-related causes. These are not inevitable deaths. They are the result of damaged health systems, insecurity, & disrupted services. ✍️@kerrycullinan.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @unicef.org 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

roape.net/2026/02/20/f... In this piece, Sarah Cotte explores the political economy of the Gulf involvement in Africa, looking specifically at land investments, stressing that the Gulf states in their new ‘scramble for Africa’ should be categorised as sub-imperialist.

"Adopting the #LusakaAgenda and incorporating community voices is more than a policy shift; it's a commitment to deliver health care for all—but only if we choose to transform primary health care together. Until we are all safe." @laktarr001.bsky.social @thinkglobalhealth.org tinyurl.com/545zwrkd

The Overlooked Benefits of Health Aid to Donor Countries A recent study outlines how health development assistance creates economic gains for donor countries @thinkglobalhealth.org www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/the-...

The case for global health aid: …every $ invested in neglected disease R&D generates ~$405 in social & health returns. When the global population is healthy…it improves labor productivity, supply-chain resilience, & creates economic partnerships… Great piece by @gavinyamey.bsky.social & colleagues

Same-old-same-old entrenched inequality… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 6:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100