INDIA IN TRANSITION Now available in HINDI, BANGLA, and TAMIL: In "Private Equity and Indian Healthcare: Equity vs. Access" @viveknd.bsky.social (Vidyashilp University) discusses how private equity investment is boosting India’s healthcare but driving up costs & deepening inequality. (Links Below)

INDIA IN TRANSITION: In "Private Equity and Indian Healthcare: Equity vs. Access" @viveknd.bsky.social (Vidyashilp University) discusses how private equity investment is boosting India’s healthcare but driving up costs and deepening inequality. casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/vivek-nd...

How Geopolitics Has Reshaped Global Biomedical Investments in 2025 [GHF Plus: Global Health Policy Intelligence] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/ghf-plus-h... A new offering for our core supporters: genevahealthfiles.substack.com/subscribe

A cartoon aristocrat in a top hat, a contentious body of muddy water, constipated Nashville dumpster divers, Ai Weiwei, and Uniqlo coffee — read five mentions from @viveknd.bsky.social, Polly Adams, Tyler Thier, @erinlangner.bsky.social, and Mark Steinbach. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

On the graphic novel version of “Capital & and Ideology,” by @viveknd.bsky.social

Austerity Induced Prioritization at the World Health Organization [#WHA78 PRIMER ON FINANCING] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/austerity-...

The Geneva Health Files Fellowship 2025; Global Health Jobs Scanner genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/the-geneva...

My piece on how jazz became an unexpected yet powerful bridge between the US and India during the Cold War. www.musicaloud.com/2025/04/26/s...

From Junk to 'Health': The Dangerous Spin of Big Food. How Big Food Profits from Health Hype By Mathilde de Jeu and Irene van den Berg, The Investigative Desk Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #265 [The Files In-Depth] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/from-junk-...

We unpack the final hours of these historic deliberations, describe how countries reached agreement in the starkly unequal field of international diplomacy. Unbelievable how much politics is embedded in a footnote in intl negotiations! FREE TO READ genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/countries-...

FREE TO READ: Countries Choose Consensus on Pandemic Agreement, G7 Fait Accompli on Caveated Terms of Tech Transfer Compromises Policy Space for Developing Countries genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/countries-...

Giving the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) the contract to advise on the WHO restructure has incredibly bad optics. It raises so many red-flags. healthpolicy-watch.news/world-health...

New @UNU_IIGH briefing paper on the growing influence of private finance capital on health. We provide a simple explanation of why public health people need to understand #financialisation as much as we would need to understand a new pandemic threat doi.org/10.37941/RR/... /1

Talks on Terms of Tech Transfer in Run into Unruly Trade Winds [Pandemic Treaty Negotiations] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/talks-on-t...

Overheard at INB: Today is V-day when @who.int member states discuss Voluntary Tech Transfer wrt Pandemic Agreement Watch NSAs: apps.who.int/gb/inb/e/e_i... Our deep dive on tech transfer genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/technology...

Countries Inch Closer on Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing, Devil in the Details genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/countries-...

WHO proposes a Billion Dollar Cut to its Budget for 2026-27 to US$4.2 billion, DG Signals Plans to Shed Jobs Citing $600 Million Hole This Year Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #263 [The Files Flash] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/who-propos...

Time For Sunset Strategy? Global Health After GAVI & The Global Fund Guest Essay by Olusoji Adeyi Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #261 [The Files In-Depth] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/time-for-s...

New op-ed in @thediplomat.com on why contemporary Indian foreign policy has not integrated cultural diplomacy in a systematic way. thediplomat.com/2025/03/cult...

Keen to contribute to research and reporting on global health governance and policy? Do apply to the @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social Fellowship 2025 & work with a team led by a leading global health journalist- @pritipatnaik.bsky.social Details here- genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/the-geneva... .

📢 New #bookreview online! 📗 Global Dreams, Domestic Dilemmas: #India’s Major Power Pursuit, review of the book "The unfinished quest: India's search for major power status from Nehrru to Modi" by T.V. Paul 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✒️ @viveknd.bsky.social

A Negotiated Settlement with the Trump Administration & @who.int , a Win-Win for Global Health Security [Guest Essay] Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #249 [The Files In-Depth] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/a-negotiat...

My review of T.V. Paul's "The Unfinished Quest : India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi" is out in The International Spectator. Read it here- www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HPASE...

WHO needs Trump? Analysis by @andrewharmer.bsky.social andrewharmer.org/2025/01/25/w...

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Trump's Snub to Global Health Leaves The Field Wide Open genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/trump-snub... Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #247 [The Files In-Depth] via bsky.app/profile/prit...

🧵 We’re building a WORLDWIDE RESISTANCE against an international collusion of billionaires whose aim is to enslave us ... 💙💙 i suggest #TruthWarriors 💙 * 🧵 MEGA THREAD begins🧵 * bsky.app/profile/sill...

SCOOP: The World Health Organization is freezing hiring, suspending investments and cutting non-essential travel in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to take the US out of the global body. News on Bloomberg Terminal. Link to story to come.

#RPVMethods #RPVQual I created a partial bibliography on Archival Ethnography for your perusal. drive.google.com/file/d/1UtF3...

Today, the global gag rule is expected to go back into effect "The harm of the gag rule to reproductive health is far-reaching and long-lasting" www.guttmacher.org/report/evide...

It’s high time that Danaher make good on its commitment to sell lifesaving tests at cost. #TBSky

Will be giving a talk at Mount Carmel College later today. If free, please drop by to discuss some initial thoughts on security, sovereignty and strategy in surviving climate change.

Much needed and great way to go about it.

Applications are now open for the 2025 Uproot Project Fellowship! You can learn more about the Uproot Project Fellowship and find this year's application here: uprootproject.org/initiatives/...

Submission of proposals open for another 6 days.

@who.int Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a stiff rebuke to Israel for its weekend military occupation of Kamal Adwan Hospital Independent eyewitness reports have confirmed Israeli allegations about the use of hospitals by Hamas leaders and combatants. bit.ly/41VajMp

"Esi Tabu's Venom", our latest film from ongoing collaboration with Nandini Velho & the Canopy Collective featuring a Nyishi tribal folklore from Arunachal Pradesh on a feud between a Checkered Keelback and a locally endemic pit-viper; https://buff.ly/4gVvli9

Short book reviews published in Himal Southasian.

What does oligarchy mean? Historian and author Timothy Snyder explores the meaning of oligarchy, where it came from, how it endangers us — and how it connects the United States and Russia. Timothy Snyder is a historian at Yale University. youtu.be/biZVrh821RA?...

Listening to @daveholmes.bsky.social’s best of 2024 playlist and officially deciding to turn all music discovery responsibility over to him. Seriously good stuff, my friends. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

I take a slightly deep dive into the history of Indian defence hedging since the Cold War and how India continues to strategically expand on its external engagement especially in relation to defence infrastructure and technology for Geopolitical Monitor. www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/navigating-a...

PhDing to PhDone. I am now officially Vivek N.D, PhD. Had my viva voce earlier today and it went off well. Happy to say there are now two doctors in the house, one in English Literature and the other in Political Science. Woo hoo!

We are not sure that words save lives, but we know that silence can certainly kill.

When you kill someone with a gun, everyone is clear that is murder. And it’s wrong. Full stop. But what is it called when you take people’s lives through PDFs and bureaucratic violence and the withholding of the most basic human obligation – care? youtu.be/_VaabzCALlQ?...

Wrote a short piece for Global Health Unfiltered on #health and #climate inequities in India. Grateful to Desmond Jumbam for suggestions and featuring the article. www.globalhealthunfiltered.com/blog/navigat...

Because the strong man kowtows outside in the name of being a guru, while at home he is a gunda.

A fearless police constable, caste fury, marriage, and a murder in Hyderabad scroll.in/article/1076...

The 1992 Rio Earth Summit Declaration states that new technologies must be “in public domain” & made accessible to developing countries “at affordable prices” Recent tech transfer arrangements have been South-North, North-South, South-South @katemac.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tra...