Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Arrived in Geneva for the third round of IGWG negotiations for the WHO #PandemicAgreement Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing (PABS) Annex. The recently released draft text confirms several areas of potential emerging consensus but also reveals significant work ahead.

My dad was an Air Traffic Controller. He worked in Melbourne but travelled to meet colleagues in the US. One of the American ATCs was Cory. He was so cool: he was in the Dr Pepper ad. He moved to Australian ATC and loved it. Anyway, they’re hiring: careers.airservicesaustralia.com/caw/en/job/5...

The President of the International Court of Justice Yuji Iwasawa is presenting the ICJ's annual report to the UN General Assembly, including briefing on the recent Advisory Opinion on legal obligations in respect of climate change.

Parts of Jamaica may see more than 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Melissa This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Turnout for the first day of early voting here in NYC *five times higher* than 2021. Biggest turnouts were seen in the three boroughs Zohran Mandan won in the primary: 🗽 Manhattan 24,046 🗽 Brooklyn 22,105 🗽 Queens 19,045

Not only that, but many the diy aesthetics and diy supplements communities are directly importing what they use from overseas, with less or no regulatory oversight of constituents or final product, based on “trusted seller” whastapp lists. There’s lead in the vegan protein shakes people.

A defining feature of Mamdani’s brilliant campaign has been persistent commitment to provide answers to New Yorkers’ real questions. In Reconsidering Reparations, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social points to this quote of Morrison’s, noting how “racism keeps you answering other people’s questions”.

A nice accessible piece for non-experts on how causation is discerned from correlation, without getting too deep into the weeds. In @statnews.com today: www.statnews.com/2025/10/23/c...

A fairly unfiltered statement from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Secretariat on the attempts by the tobacco industry to influence the Conference of Parties Very Merchants of Doubt.

the mimalist logo trend has hit the ouroboros

A really excellent thread of examples from Dr Planey below about the cracks in AI as its costs are becoming more apparent to the public. As a lawyer and an academic in global health and planetary health, these costs are simply so untenable for a just, effective, accountable, and equitable world.

Tomorrow! Friday, 11:00-12:30 CET at the Planetary Health Annual Meeting #PHAM An unparalleled stellar panel of Planetary Health Law, Governance & Policy experts! Our discussion will explore how law is empowering Planetary Health, from national litigation to reshaping global governance.

This week in The Hague, I was delighted to participate in @undp.org's consultation on the 2026 Human Development Report, exploring the potential of international law, global governance & Planetary Health. With thanks to UNDP, Georgetown's Earth Commons & Sunway Centre for Planetary Health.

WHO Director-General @drtedros.who.int ends the UN General Assembly event on Global Health pointing to the adoption of the Pandemic Agreement: "Multilateralism is alive and well despite the noise, so that gives me hope... This is an international treaty that all Member States have agreed to move on"

An incredible advancement with Huntington’s disease successfully treated for the first time, slowing disease progression by 75%. The treatment use gene therapy and gene silencing technologies to reduce levels of the protein permanently, in a single dose. www.bbc.com/news/article...

FYI, some people reject this term because their relationship is not discordant. One couple I interviewed preferred the term "magnetic couple" -- because she's positive and he's negative

DRC health authorities have sadly declared an outbreak of Ebola in Kasai Province. Sample testing confirms Ebola Zaire. At 4 Sept 2025: - 28 suspected cases - 15 deaths, including 4 health workers DRC has significant expertise with Ebola and 2000 vaccine doses. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Today in @thelancet.com we examine the importance of the recent ICJ Advisory Opinion in using law to protect health and human rights in the face of the planetary crisis. Link: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

What are you doing @broadinstitute.org & @statnews.com? This demonstrates a glaring lack of insight and self-awareness at best, and completely undermines the purported goal of the event, Women's Health.

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on State Obligations with Respect to Climate Change is significant. It provides clarity and removes many common uncertainties around the nature of obligations under international law to act to prevent harm from climate change. Live details here:

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change livestream has begun. The Court begins by concluding that the questions put to it are legal in nature and that it has jurisdiction to provide an Advisory Opinion. (1/n)

📰A new @thelancet.com article examines pathways to an intergov't panel on pandemics. The authors, incl @alexandraphelan.bsky.social, explain that it is essential for building consensus, guiding policy, and strengthening the int. response to future health crises. 🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Delighted to be here at @ox.ac.uk @psioxford.bsky.social for the #PandemicSciences25 conference

It's a pretty telling self-indictment if you think that an AI output from a nescient query is going to be equal to the depth of your own comprehension after reading a book.

really feeling like a schmuck with my LAWS and NORMS knuckle tatts right now

Everyone wants to be a Realist (insist that foreign policy is an amoral object of study) until it’s time to do Realist things (actually counter a potential regional hegemon)

The Pandemic Agreement “represents a foundational shift away from fragmented global responses and towards a legally backed, accountable, and inclusive structure … [and] that health equity … cannot be left to geopolitical and commercial power dynamics” www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...

Amazing work from our colleagues in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and elsewhere, making the first sequences available from the ongoing Mpox epidemic in Sierra Leone. More to come - for now, head over to @pathoplexus.org: pathoplexus.org/seqsets/PP_S...

I'm delighted to share our new law review article on the recent amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) with Lawrence Gostin @oneillinstitute.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social in the Georgetown Journal of International Law. Full text: www.law.georgetown.edu/internationa...

The spread of Mpox in Sierra Leone is unlike anything we have ever seen - and we have been keeping an eye on this bug in the region for >15 years. Given geographical spread, 50/50 men vs women, this is no "sexual network". This could be the next one. clt.npha.gov.sl/outbreak.aspx

Delighted to speak with @npr.org about the historic adoption of the Pandemic Agreement today: "it's a bit of a glimmer in the darkness. We should take hope from the fact that countries didn't abandon this process when there were many opportunities for them to do so." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

This morning, WHO Member States adopted the Pandemic Agreement by consensus. They also established a working group to negotiate the PABS Annex for 2026. Once the Annex is adopted the Agreement opens for signature. It will enter into force when there are 60 Parties. www.who.int/news/item/20...

Folks – the Pandemic Agreement is not adopted *yet* (as of Mon eve). What happened just now was adoption of the Committee A report through which the draft resolution and draft text go to Plenary. Tomorrow (Tues), WHA Plenary will convene and likely adopt the resolution and treaty text by consensus.

Now open access on FirstView: "Environmental Health: Towards Synthesis in Global Law and Governance" by @alexandraphelan.bsky.social , Stefania Negri, and Marlies Hesselman. #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalHealth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This month, the WHO announced an agreement on the world's first pandemic treaty. @alexandraphelan.bsky.social explains what it took to get here and what it means that the U.S. wasn't part of negotiations and won't be a signer: podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/886-an-accor...

With the brilliant @syramadad.bsky.social we discuss why the draft Pandemic Agreement is a leap forward for global health equity and security. WHO Member States should adopt the text at May's World Health Assembly. With thanks to @belfercenter.bsky.social www.belfercenter.org/research-ana...

Today on @publichealthpod.bsky.social: what reaching consensus on the Pandemic Agreement means. Delighted to return to talk on the podcast about what this moment means for global health as well as international law. johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/886-an-accor...

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari's work to protect the Marañon River in Peru, including through granting the river designated legal identity, recognized with this year's Goldman Prize. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A huge achievement and incredible work by Member States, WHO, and civil society. It was a privilege to be involved in this process in a very small way. Here's to the path ahead in solidarity for a safer, more equitable world. www.science.org/content/arti...

How powerful the pandemic treaty will turn out to be depends on how seriously countries take it, says @nschwalbe.bsky.social.“This agreement definitely provides a recipe and all the ingredients for a world safer from pandemics,” she says. “Countries now need to make it happen.” 🧪 #IDsky

Today @asilorg.bsky.social at 2pm, I’m delighted to join @roojinhabibi.org Ben Grazda & Katiniss Xuejiao Li to discuss current multilateral treaty making. In completely choreographed timing, I’ll be discussing the Pandemic Agreement negotiation process and consensus text reached just last night.

🎆Consensus for Pandemic Agreement text reached!🎆 A huge congratulations to Member States, WHO & civil society for the tireless work & successful negotiations. This is an affirmation of multilateralism, underpinned by equity & solidarity, in a fracturing world. Onwards to adoption at WHA in May!

❇️ So much green ❇️ This week saw huge progress towards a consensus draft Pandemic Agreement. WHO, Member States, and several Relevant Stakeholders worked through the night. Talks will reconvene Tuesday following consultation with capitals and hopefully then onwards to adoption at WHA.

And at 9.15am Geneva time, an adjournment to Tuesday. A huge well done to the negotiators, secretariat and relevant stakeholders who have been at it all night. Time for the airport.

It’s pretty incredible to see it come down to this after days and hours of wordsmithing of this term.