Elaine Ruth Fletcher

2 weeks ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher

NEW DELHI – The theme was “Scaling Access to Ensure Health Equity”, but that hardly reflected the intense concerns raised at the first World Health Summit Regional Meeting with the storm of Trump Administration cutbacks and closures of global health programmes since January.  Traditional medicine, climate and health, data transparency, and the role of AI were among the key issues discussed and debated at the regional meeting, the first ever to be held in South Asia.

3 weeks ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher

During this World Immunization Week (24-30 April), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), shares recommendations for how Gavi – which is developing its new five-year strategy amidst looming funding cuts – can strengthen collaboration between governments and humanitarian organisations to ensure that more children up until the age of at least five, especially those living in fragile and humanitarian settings, get their routine vaccinations.

3 weeks ago | thetechstreetnow.com | Elaine Ruth Fletcher

3 hours ago   expresscomputer.in By Elaine Fletcher, Head of Governance, HoonartekWith the introduction of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA), 2023, India has taken a significant step towards creating a robust framework for processing personal identifiable information (PII) in the digital age.

3 weeks ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher

The food industry will remove synthetic dyes from the U.S. food supply by the end of 2026, the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday, in one of the first, significant moves by new Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address an epidemic of chronic diseases in his “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement.

3 weeks ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher

A new, and near final iteration of WHO’s reorganization will shrink its programme divisions even further than previous drafts – from 10 to only four – with health systems emerging as one key pillar of the revamped organization. At the same time, disease control departments and preventive health teams – such as health promotion and environment, climate and health, will all fall under one division – for the first time in years, according to a copy of the plan, obtained by Health Policy Watch.