Always lovely to be back in London. Photos of beautiful pubs are more interesting than meeting photos. 🤩

Another worthwhile read in. These lines in the end… via @economist.com www.economist.com/middle-east-... mt @cgdev.org @charlesjkenny.bsky.social

Thanks for keeping this space more real @bsky.app 🤣 www.economist.com/business/202... via @economist.com

If you think black, brown and white, or male, female and diverse encapsulate diversity, think again. My next blog on what I have learned, working at a disability rights organization: katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...

Sudden and unplanned cuts to aid have hit many countries hard, costing lives and jeopardizing hard-won health gains. Today, @who.int issued a guidance to help countries to better mobilize, allocate, prioritize and use funds to support the delivery of health services: bit.ly/47z3hOv #HealthForAll

With large portraits of himself, 24-karat golden adornments and a triumphal arch, President Trump is asserting his power through what might be called an imperial aesthetic, or visual cues designed to project personal command and grandeur.

The wealth of the 10 richest Americans has soared by $700 billion since Trump was reelected. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are going hungry because Trump is illegally withholding contingency funds that would keep food stamps funded during his shutdown. Two Americas.

Quite a few more #globalhealth organizations have joined Bluesky. I keep a list, feel free to use to follow and engage more here 👇

(Next personal blog) Spheres of control, influence and concern: Why we can’t afford to stay in our comfort zones katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/s...

Post-vacation and hyped to get to be back in London end next week. (And yes, I’m fleeing the Berlin gray season as much as I can!)

A 3-day deep-dive in Accra into our We Can Work program, which helps young women and men with disabilities train for and engage in dignified and fulfilling work. So great to see disability inclusion advisors and faciltators (who have lived experience) in action. @light-for-the-world.org

What is corruption? @anticorruption.bsky.social defines corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Corruption erodes trust, weakens democracy, hampers economic development.”

Right now it feels like one of those times in history where you need to show where you stand and what you stand for. Silently, just moving along, is also a stance - even if you think it’s not - and it’s on the dangerous side of history.

Meanwhile in the UK… How traditionally centrist/center-right parties are normalising the far-right. #Stadtbild

A few decades ago, the statements currently coming on a weekly basis from the German Chancellor would have been rated “putting his foot in it”/“faux pas” (that famous German Fettnäpchen ) In these times, he risks inciting violence against foreigners in Germany - and all women. Read the room 🔥

Since so many people are now on @bsky.app, I am sharing an updated list of global and public health organizations go.bsky.app/Df5hsLV

Most of us have a love-hate (or use-hate?) relationship with LinkedIn, which seems to be the platform that brings together most of us at the moment (after Xplosion that fragmented our spaces). A few thoughts…

With a felt kazillion “I was in the VIP room!” posts (mainly photos with dozens of VIP handles) on my feed post #UNGA #WHS2025 #AnnualMeetings, upping this one on FOMO and what really happens in these haloed rooms: katribertram.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/g...

Meanwhile in Germany 👇 “political parties … seeking to copy the hardline agenda of the far right, even as research suggests that doing so drives voters to cast their ballot for the far right.”

🙏 to everyone who was posting from No-Kings yesterday, it gives me so much hope to see people speak up and show up. How can this movement now turn into political change?

Utopian dream: I next attend and follow the “World Honest Summit”, where PR spin and knowingly made BS statements are forbidden, and no-one is allowed to use words like “pivotal”.

Always integrity. For whoever needs to (re)read this in these times: katribertram.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/l...

At this week's World Health Summit in Berlin, the global south arrived with a welcome vision for the future of the global health response, but it is not without some potential complications: theforsaken.substack.com/p/the-view-f...

“The worst outcome here is that we invest a lot of our energies having long conversations and lots of meetings about all of this and then do nothing,” Sands (GF ED) concluded. 👇 1/2

“Stalled” is a PR way to put it. I think @felixundstein.bsky.social in his Berlin talk said “absurdly unrealistic from the start”, and had a striking figure for what this would have meant in terms of ROI. Can we sunset this fundraising claim please 👇

Check out this week's IHP news 850: The World Health Summit www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u... (also with pdf translations in French, Spanish & Portuguese, as well as an AI summary)

Heading off to Accra to catch some of those "reset" vibes. 😉

I’d encourage all the people who DM me after blogs with “exactly - thank you for saying this!” to test speaking out directly and publicly for themselves. We can’t afford to stay silent when we know things need to change. And as many countries show, we can’t afford to be complicit.

Agree. They may not be invited back as a key “media partner” next year. Speaking as a critical friend with experience 🤣 @devex.com

Missed #WHS2025? A quick 5-point recap: katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/w... #globalhealth

I’ve for many years been super fascinated (also through my own career steps and surprising “learnings”) about who in #globalhealth takes and gets what funding. Some pretty crazy stories for ethics boards and investigative journalists on utter failures of firewalls. Dig deeper please 🙏

Felix Stein asks an interesting question about what “responsibility“ (part of the #WHS2025 tagline) means. We often refer to the more technocratic “accountability“, but should also include the term “complicity“. (I’ll have to think about this more…)

Victoria Saint kicks off an interactive panel on the war on empathy and abolition of health as a social right, reminding us that #globalhealth is intrinsically political and increasingly politicized.

How do you fight the far right (in #globalhealth)? @profsophieharman.bsky.social 1) Don’t punch down (tell the public their concerns are stupid) 2) Don’t self-censor 😶 3) Get our own house in order (don’t exploit women’s stories, unpaid health and care work, and ignore harassment)

Many important #globalhealth discussions are not happening at #WHS2025. How is the far right using women’s health and rights to construct new narratives, systems and inequities? @profsophieharman.bsky.social 🔥

Worth a read if you are at #WHS2025. “ At the World Health Summit, diversity in representation is increasing — but influence remains uneven.” www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com

😭 As per @economist.com

Quite a few more #globalhealth organizations have joined Bluesky. I keep a list, feel free to use to follow and engage more here 👇

Why has @light-for-the-world.org joined @who.int‘s Disability Health Equity Initiative - and why do #disability services have to take place at primary care level and in communities? A few remarks from @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social. #WHS2025

#WHS2025 take-aways from the discussions that count (over ☕️ & in the corridors): 1) Where’s the Chancellor and top leadership? Has Germany (despite a 1bn GF pledge) dropped #globalhealth? 2) Is all this architecture discussion new or old-old-never-changes? Something’s shifting, there’s reform hope

You can now rewatch our @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social opening session on closing the #disabilityInclusion gap in health: www.worldhealthsummit.org/sessions/00e... @light-for-the-world.org

Placing a few women, people of color, or a person with a disability on stage for the formal photo-opp, when only white men are in the leading roles, is not inclusion or diversity, it’s “diversity-washing”, diversion and deception. 🤬

Joining #WHS2025 on Sunday in-person or online? We have the best session of the day lined up for you! Join us at 11am CET. I'll be chairing. @light-for-the-world.org

See you in Berlin Sunday onwards, #globalhealth gang. #WHS2025

It's #WorldSightDay Prolonged screen or reading times can lead to eye strain, dry eyes, and headaches. DO take breaks! Use the 20-20-20 rule to help your eyes: 🖥️ After using a screen for 20 minutes 📏 Look at an object 20 feet away 🕓 For 20 seconds

Hope to see many of you at this event - and read the book too! @profsophieharman.bsky.social

🙌 @maebhnif.bsky.social (& @seyeabimbola.bsky.social)! 💯

Can’t wait! 🤩 📚

I've for 40+ yrs had travelling privileges due to my nationality, with visa free travel to nearly all countries. Over the past year I've applied for more visas than in decades - now also to the UK. It feels cumbersome, but I remind myself this is nothing compared to what most people experience.

Look forward to seeing many of you at #WHS2025. Perhaps also due to visa and funding challenges, the speaker and participant list appears to be shifting. I'll be keeping my eye on inclusive vs VIP-only spaces. The two rarely intersect.