Priti Patnaik

1 day ago | genevahealthfiles.substack.com | Priti Patnaik

Hi, Presenting the bi-monthly GHF Jobs Scanner for global health. We hope to hear from organizations and companies looking to share their open positions or assignments. Our readers include experts across global health, and we are keen on sharing our assiduously built community to help make connections. The idea is to showcase few but meaningful roles in global health anywhere in the world. Looking to recruit a consultant or advertise a position?

3 days ago | genevahealthfiles.substack.com | Priti Patnaik

Hi, Health is political, and the annual World Health Assembly becomes a venue where this comes into full display. And yet, every year countries contest this, trying to separate the technical from the political. I have often wondered how proceedings would unfold at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, if one could see, sense, touch, feel and smell, the horrific realities of conflicts.

5 days ago | genevahealthfiles.substack.com | Priti Patnaik

Hi,In-depth interviews are a great format to understand complex issues because they allow for clarity, candor and conversation. They are especially interesting if interviewees are open to speaking their mind. In today’s edition we bring you a wide-ranging interview of Egyptian Ambassador, Amr Ramadan, a vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body that established WHO’s Pandemic Agreement.

1 week ago | genevahealthfiles.substack.com | Priti Patnaik

Hi, Presenting a quick wrap on the World Health Assembly that concluded on May 28th, in Geneva this week. Find our work valuable? Consider become a paying subscriber. Tracking global health policy-making in Geneva is tough and expensive. Help us in raising important questions, and in keeping an ear to the ground. Readers paying for our work helps us meet our costs. Our gratitude to our subscribers who ensure we are able to pursue public interest journalism.

1 week ago | thinkglobalhealth.org | Priti Patnaik

A decisive World Health Assembly (WHA) saw the adoption of a new agreement to govern pandemics at a time of grave financial uncertainty not only for the institution but also for the wider field of global health.  Countries came together overcoming political divides and mistrust, but much more will be needed to preserve multilateralism in global health as the sector undergoes potentially irreversible transformation with fundamental shifts in financing and governance.