So, as we celebrate discoveries made in science so far, let’s also reflect this week on working towards a future in science that includes and serves everyone.💪🌸 #NationalScienceWeek #STEM #WomenInGlobalHealth #GenderEquity #WomenInScience

This week is Australia's National Science Week.🧬It is an opportunity to celebrate science and scientists that have shaped our world! At WGH Aus, we recognise the incredible contributions of women scientists - whose work drives innovation, saves lives, and shapes a healthier, more equitable future.👩🏽‍🔬

Professor Fay Johnstone is a public health physician and environmental epidemiologist who focuses on the health impacts of air pollution. She is the lead investigator for Safe Air; an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in air quality. Read her profile here: www.wghaustralia.org/profiling-se...

Dr Gina Samaan is Regional Emergency Director in WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme and she works on building sustainable systems for responding to health emergencies. Read her profile here: www.wghaustralia.org/profiling-se... #WorldFieldEpidemiologyDay #WomenInGlobalHealth #PublicHealth

Yesterday was World Field Epidemiology Day, centred on "Making our Mark"🦠. In honour, WGH Aus has launched a profiling series to share the stories of two remarkable women, Dr Gina Samaan and Prof Fay Johnston, and their work in field epidemiology. @womeningh.bsky.social

The week beginning Aug 4 was the most dangerous, tragic week of RFK Jr’s tenure yet. A Lancet Editorial outlines why—unpacking a movement that seeks to discredit mainstream medicine and portray institutions and experts as enemies, not partners. tinyurl.com/4zppw6ay

@theipcinfo.bsky.social has just confirmed #famine in #Gaza governorate. This man-made, widespread malnutrition means that even common & usually mild diseases like diarrhoea are becoming fatal, especially for children. Gaza must be urgently supplied with food and medicines. Aid blockages must end!

Meru Sheel—promoting vaccines and emergency responses @merusheel.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🦟💧 Satellite data show that #Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes spike not when it rains, but when surface water is around—like irrigation puddles. We used remote-sensing in SoCal to map risk and guide smarter mosquito control. 🔬🌐 doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Registration and the call for abstract submissions for #GHS2026 are officially open! Do you have research, insights, or innovative work to share in advancing global health security? Submit your abstract and join us in Malaysia to be part of this vital global conversation. 👉 ghsconf.com

📢 Launch of WHO Guidance on the Ethics of Health Research Priority Setting www.glopid-r.org/who-releases...

🚨 Global immunization is under threat. Here's why we should invest in disease surveillance and immunization monitoring so that cutbacks to immunization programmes don't go unnoticed. 👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @who.int @unicef.org @rki.de @merusheel.bsky.social #IA2030 #Vaccineswork

Post-doc available at the Sydney School of Public Health @sydney.edu.au with the amazing @merusheel.bsky.social - surveillance systems for vaccine-preventable diseases in the Asia-Pacific region: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

“It’s too late to save U.S.A.I.D. The question now is whether we can still save America’s willingness to show up when people are dying” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

It's beyond time for debt relief. 🚩 NEW Jubilee Report calls out that developing countries need a fresh round of debt relief to prevent money urgently needed for health and education being diverted to creditors. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Strengthening Immunization Data: Protocol for the Evaluation of an Electronic Immunization Register - new publication by Meru Sheel, Cyra Patel, Gemma Saravanos et al. @merusheel.bsky.social @glsaravanos.bsky.social www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e65663

3/3WGH Aus spoke with Helena Hassani; founder of Boland Parwaz, an organisation working to abolish child & forced marriage. Afghanistan-born and forced to flee to Australia in 2009, she is now a researcher, social worker, and human rights advocate. Read more: www.wghaustralia.org/profiling-se...

2/3 WGH Aus spoke with Hon Ayor Makur Chuot MLC, the first African-Australian woman elected to WA Parliament. After childhood in a refugee camp, she overcame significant barriers to work in various areas before being elected to the Legislative Council in WA. www.wghaustralia.org/profiling-se...

1/3 Refugee Week 2025 centers on ‘Finding Freedom: Diversity in Community’. In honour, WGH Aus launches a profiling series ton two remarkable refugee women, Hon Ayor Makur Chuot MLC and Helena Hassani, and their work to drive change in gender and health. @womeningh.bsky.social

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NEW research published in PLOS Global Public Health by Delaram Akhavein, @merusheel.bsky.social and @seyeabimbola.bsky.social How health securitisation shapes health system priorities: A realist synthesis journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

The 78th session of the World Health Assembly has just re-started. Follow the #WHA78 discussions on our website: bit.ly/78thWorldHea...

Call for Nominations!! The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity www.mcgill.ca/spgh/about-u...

✨Final week to apply for a post-doc role in infectious diseases epidemiology and vaccines ✨ Working with me on two projects in Southeast Asia at the @sydney.edu.au . Apply through link here: www.seek.com.au/job/83861164 Great for those interested in global public health and field-based research.

Most people who get COVID today will experience only a mild illness. But some are still at risk of severe illness. Here’s what the virus looks like 5 years on.

Gender quotas are the only way for the Liberals to go: Simon Birmingham theconversation.com/gender-quota... @wghaustralia.bsky.social

Seven new reviewers for second round peer review of paper. 4 months between submission & receiving comments for each round. Varying opinions. Is this the future of academic publishing? How is it fair to young scholars... Journals need a different model of operating in this post- covid world.

A month of aid blockade in #Gaza has left families hungry, without clean water, shelter, or adequate health care. @who.int calls for: -lifting of the aid blockade -protection of health care -unimpeded humanitarian access -resumption of daily medical evacuations -release of hostages -ceasefire

The proposal respects national sovereignty—the draft agreement does not provide WHO any authority to direct, order, alter or prescribe national laws or policies, or mandate States to take specific actions. bit.ly/3EaZQmL

Proposals within the text include: ✅ Boosting global collaboration on prevention & preparedness ✅ Strengthening health systems & R&D worldwide ✅ Creating a fair system for pathogen access & benefit-sharing ✅ Building a skilled global health emergency workforce bit.ly/3EaZQmL

An important step towards multilateralisn - now for the bigger and more complex part of implementing the IHR & the Pandemic Agreement. A new era of #healthsecurity and #Preparedness and #Response

I only took notes on one #ESCMIDGlobal session on Monday: Vaccines and antimicrobial resistance (online.escmid.org/media-1506-v...).

"We started our Ph.D.s during COVID-19. Now, we’re graduating into political chaos." Covid was bad enough - sad to see a lost generation of researchers / those who've been impacted negatively and something we don't discuss enough off! www.science.org/content/arti...

Today marks FIVE YEARS since @who.int declared #COVID19 a "pandemic". As we grapple with the long-term impacts of COVID and a time of rising threats, PAN's Exec. Director @eloisetodd.bsky.social shares 5️⃣ reflections that are begging for action. www.pandemicactionnetwork.org/news/five-re...

"It is critical that we have flexible plans to deal with something besides flu. Unfortunately, a combination of war and toxic politics is reducing our ability to develop and deliver these plans." theconversation.com/five-years-a...

"I know how lethal Donald Trump’s assault on America’s outbreak preparedness could be. We are sure to regret it," warns @craigspencer.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

5 years ago today. Feels like yesterday in so many ways and yet so long ago, but public health seems like at precipice now more than ever. #covid19 #march2020. A tiny clip from an interview on the day of #pandemic declaration for @abcnewsbot.bsky.social.

'Representing gender inequality in scenarios improves understanding of climate challenges.' via Nature Climate Change -> rdcu.be/ecFMW @alma2106.bsky.social

My personal connection to IWD www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-per... #IWD2025 ♀️💜👏🏾💪🏽

In February, officials in the Democratic Rep. of the Congo reported a cluster of unexplained deaths in a single village. WHO teams, working alongside DRC health authorities, have ruled out Ebola & Marburg, shifting the focus to other possible causes. 🧵 Here is what is known so far: bit.ly/4bptpwQ

In the last five years, 44 eliminations have been confirmed by WHO. What does it take to eliminate a disease? What needs to happen before WHO can certify an elimination? Once eliminated, can these diseases come back? Dr Jérôme Salomon explains on Science in 5. Watch full episode: bit.ly/3XrK6C2

#USDA confirmed +1 #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herd in California, bringing the state's total to 749. CA's Ag dept says 329 of those herds have cleared quarantine. Cumulative national total is 978 herds in 17 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

Achieving gender equity in global health will require reimagining of how health systems operate, Associate Professor Meru Sheel, PhD candidate Rachel Mather and co-authors write in this week's issue of InSight+ Read more: buff.ly/vqI9Cwh

How #COVID19 Remade America. It feels as if the pandemic is behind us. But we're living in the world it made. The U.S. is a harsher place, self-interested and nakedly transactional. Health libertarianism rules, by @dwallacewells.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” erasing $4 billion in additional savings that the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

The global fund will roll out twice yearly Lenacapavir for prevention of HIV with or without #PEPFAR. Now the US contributes 30% of the global fund donations which is likely to disappear. Still important the fund is not backing away from this commitment 👏🏼. bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

(Part 3) Meet our new Board Members from the WGH Chapters! 🌍 Kim Sales (Philippines) @kimsales.bsky.social 🌍 Lanice Williams (United States - DC)

(Part 2) Meet our new Board Members from the WGH Chapters! 🌍 Venus Dadirai Mushininga (Zimbabwe) 🌍 Merette Khalil (Egypt) 🌍 Rosa Maria Orriols (Spain) @wgh-spain.bsky.social (Cont.) ->