Midway through #IGWG4, progress on the #PandemicAgreement’s #PABS Annex remains slow, with several pending issues and limited negotiation days. Here are key midweek takeaways 🧵👇🏼

At the #UnionConf World Conference on Lung Health in Copenhagen, our Steering Committee member, Dr @yassentch.bsky.social presented how gaps in Canada’s health system make it harder for people to get the TB medicines they need, and how providers are helping drive change. #EndTB

Starting now: Plenary A - High stakes, low certainty: Post-Normal Science in public health governance with Silvio Funtowicz from University of Bergen. Listen, comment and join the discussion! You can still register and follow the conference LIVE here: bit.ly/ESCAIDE2025Register #ESCAIDE2025

Interesting #epi conversation during session on #TB diagnostics at #WCLH2025 about diagnostic yield and tradeoff between accessibility and sensitivity. Conclusion: yield of tongue swabs is not inferior to sputum, using both maximizes yield. @madhupai.bsky.social @cdenki.bsky.social #EndTB #EpiSky

#WCLH2025: TB medications: We are in an oasis of new developments. We are in the midst robust drug pipeline in history. Will those developments be available to Canadians when they become available to the world? There are already many challenges to access for currently exciting medications!

It was an honor to speak at the @who.int #EndTB summit at the #WCLH2025 and sharing thoughts about how critical community engagement is especially at times of growing resources constraints.

TB advocates remind us about the impact of devastating funding and aid cuts at the @theunion.org conference on TB

Why is it that at every conference these days, we have to discuss how Visa issues further exacerbate inequities in the world; the invited keynote speaker shouldn't be denied telling their story #WCLH2025. @lars-loekke.bsky.social @theunion.org @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social

Dr Cassandra Kelly-Cirino, Executive Director of The Union, opened #WCLH2025 with powerful words: “In the face of devastating funding cuts & geopolitical turmoil, we must squeeze every drop of potential from this conference to move the needle & avert any further derailment.”

Fun to have @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social as the opening keynote of the #WCLH2025. With his book "Everything Is Tuberculosis" he did an amazing work of popularising TB science in a way that other, beyond scientists and clinicians deeply involved in this work can understand! @theunion.org #EndTB

Very glad to be at the @who.int #EndTB summit in the @whoeurope.bsky.social in #Copenhagen! The summit opens with Hans Kluge and Tereza Kasaeva. "Ending TB is not a question of science, we have the science, it's a question of courage and political will." #TheUnion2025

If you're going to be at #ESCAIDE2025, do drop by our poster on #Wastewater surveillance in #Nunavik presented by @carolinerusso.bsky.social Programming looks great, I encourage #EpiSky colleagues to register even to attend a few of the sessions virtually! www.escaide.eu/en/attendees... @escaide.eu

As the @medwma.bsky.social just concluded its GA discussing critical medical ethics issues, it has come to my attention that wastewater-based surveillance is being politicized to track compounds linked to reproductive and gender-affirming care in the US! #EpiSky #PublicHealth #MedicalEthics

The @cmadocs.bsky.social rejoins the @medwma.bsky.social! Nice to see the Canadians back in this important #GlobalHealth forum!

What an incredible journey in Porto 🇵🇹💫 Thank you to everyone who joined us, in person and online, for making the JDN Fall Meeting 2025 a space of growth, connection, and inspiration. Together, we keep building the future of junior doctors worldwide 🩺🗺 #JDN #WMA #JDNFallMeeting2025

Nice timely coverage by @radiocanadainfo.bsky.social of work on #WastewaterSurveillance in Nunavik! This public health tool allows a new way of generating information about the health of the population in the region and informing #PublicHealth interventions. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/217...

@helenclarknz.bsky.social and @drmarianeira.bsky.social discusshe clean air from and describe the economic case for investing: being sick prevents people from working, it costs a lot to health system. #WHA78. @who.int @gchalliance.bsky.social @cleanairfund.bsky.social

As you follow news from #WHA78, read @craigspencer.bsky.social's essay (from March) on the effects of US withdrawal from global health. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Nice #micdrops from the conversation on #PlanetaryHealth organized by the WHO youth Council: should we be concerned that the US pulled out of the #ParisAgreement? The US wasn't the most proactive before; what if we don't care? #WHA78

Emma Rawson-Te Patu #WFPHA answers key questions at side event on #PlanetaryHealth in few word but much wisdom: "What is the ultimate driver of environmental degradation?": it is the way in which we behave! #WHA78

@eloisetodd.bsky.social @panaction.bsky.social describes that we should work in a networked approach to identify on the one hand what the best solutions would be and use another type of expertise to identify the politically viable way to get there. #wha78 #GlobalHealth

@drmarianeira.bsky.social words of wisdom during event on #PlanetaryHealth in geopolitical crises: "TBS: take them by surprise" and "don't accept the unacceptable"! #WHA78 @who.int @panaction.bsky.social

Exciting book launch by @pritipatnaik.bsky.social @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social: Negotiating Equity, Amendments to the IHR. Very timely with the upcoming entry into force of the lastest #IHR amendment and the adoption of the #PandemicAccord. #WHA78 #GlobalHealth #IDsky

Impressive Launch of the #BreakFossilFuelInfluence Campaign for fossil-free health communications 📰 by @gchalliance.bsky.social on the sidelines of #WHA78. ⏰️Time for health to take a stand against misinformation & pollution! @influencemap.bsky.social 🖋 climateandhealthalliance.org/what-we-do/m...

Luan Vo speaks on the importance of resourcing community engagement to #EndTB during side event at #WHA78. He also describes the work of the @who.int #CSTFTB. #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth

Theresa Tam, #Canada CPHO, speaks at #WHA78 about #SHD and health equity and puts the focus on indigenous populations and health data ownership and control. #GlobalHealth

WHO Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the #WHA78, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of a historic global compact to make the world safer from future pandemics. Read: bit.ly/4kjM6p4

A giant leap for mankind (except for Americans because we’d rather live in a world of MAHA make believe). www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

📢 BREAKING NEWS: @who.int member states formally adopt pandemic treaty But what more needs to be done to prepare for the next #pandemic? 😷 LSHTM experts give their views: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n... #PublicHealth @lshtmcepr.bsky.social

💯 In a word? Adopted. 🦠 The Pandemic Treaty was just unanimously adopted by the World Health Assembly. 💊💉Bravo world. You did the right thing. apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf...

It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly! My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer. What a moment in global health history. Together!

@who.int plenary adopts the #PandemicAccord! We now have a new tool in the global health toolbox, and hopefully we will manage to make the best of it! There is a lot of work between now and full implementation, not the least negotiating the #PABS instrument! #GlobalHealth @mcgillghp.bsky.social

A new wave of #globalhealth @bsky.app joiners - welcome 👋 and I assume you’re trying this out for #WHA78. I keep a Global Health list (public in my tabs), it’s a great way to follow specific issues and happy to share and recommend everyone there too. Less overwhelming than starter packs.

@nschwalbe.bsky.social the work on the #PandemicAccord is like a triathlon: we've almost finished the swim (treaty negotiations), but then we still have the bike ride (PABS negotiation), and the run (ratification and implementation). #WHA78

Who is missing the biggest global health meeting of the year? USA www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Precious Matsoso #INB co-chair reflects on how different networks formed and supported the work that led to the #PandemicAccord: Friends of the Treaty, Equity Group, Friends of #OneHealth, and how civil society contributed to the work. @panaction.bsky.social @fourpawsint.bsky.social @who.int #WHA78

Nice to have a small moment of reflection on the #PandemicAccord hopefully a few moments before it finally gets forwarded to the #WHA78 plenary. #PandemicAccord @panaction.bsky.social @fourpawsint.bsky.social

The World Health Assembly is now considering the draft text of the @who.int #pandemictreaty. The #INB co-chairs open the discussion. "The world is watching. Let's make a difference. The future is waiting." #WHA78

A wave of chatter and excitement sweeps through the Committee A proceedings at #WHA78 as the floor is opened for interventions on the agenda item on the Pandemic Agreement. Scores of delegations raise their placards expressing their intent to speak.

#WHA78 opens the agenda item 16.2 Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. #PandemicAccord #GlobalHealth #IDsky

"War is not the solution. Peace is the solution." @drtedros.who.int strongly calls for a political resolution and peace. @who.int #WHA78

@drtedros.who.int: “More than 10,000 patients still need medical evacuation out of Gaza...we ask Israel to allow these evacuations and to allow urgently needed food and medicine to enter Gaza. WHO stands ready, with our UN partners, to move rapidly to deliver it.” #WHA78

@helenclarknz.bsky.social opens the event on health taxes on the margins of the #WHA78. The state of resources for health has probably changed and will not go back: health taxes can be a tool for greater resources mobilization for health in the way forward. #GlobalHealth #NCDs @who.int

Dr @calinemattar.bsky.social, WMA Adviser presented the WMA Global Physician Migration Report soon to be available on the WMA website. #WHA78 @who.int

Dr @jackresneckmd.bsky.social, WMA Chair of Council, highlighted the recommendations of the WMA Statement on Ethical Guidelines for the International Migration of Health Workers: www.wma.net/policies-pos...). WMA side event on Health Workforce Migration is underway alongside #WHA78 @who.int

@eloisetodd.bsky.social @panaction.bsky.social: "In advocacy we don't win by being right, we win by creating scenarios where everyone feels like they are winning" #PandemicAccord #PPPR #WHA78

French ambassador Anne-Claire Amprou guys the nail on the head about the upcoming priorities for #PPPR: Operationalizing #PABS; Ensuring that we work in a transsectoral #OneHealth approach; Addressing misinformation and disinformation. #WHA78 #PandemicAccord #GlobalHealth

Maybe in current time with growing security investments and dwindling funds for health co-learning is an opportunity in #GlobalHealth! Similar conversation around wargaming exercises conducted by @gavi.org before #mpox and allowed stronger response here at #WHA78 with @sanianishtar.bsky.social

@sanianishtar.bsky.social describes wargaming and scenario planning done by @gavi.org to describe response scenarios and roles if a pandemic arrives and we already have countermeasures, if we don't but have advanced research and if we don't even have that. This allowed rapid Mpox response. #WHA78

@jarottingen.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social on the current global trajectory for #PPPR during #WHA78: The day is sunny; But there are clouds on the horizon; We need more collaboration. #IDsky #PandemicAccord #WHA78 @who.int @gavi.org