Geneva Health Files

Geneva Health Files is a reporting project focused on investigating the dynamics of power and politics within global health. This independent initiative monitors international health policy developments as they happen in Geneva, Switzerland, the hub of global health activities.

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GHF Jobs Scanner; Event: Understanding the New Pandemic Treaty

2 days 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?
Countries Vote in Support of Palestine at World Health Assembly, as Humanitarian and Health Crises Worsen in Gaza

4 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.
EXCLUSIVE - "The Provisions of The Pandemic Agreement Are Very Clear on The Direction That The Agreement Wants Countries To Go": Egyptian INB Vice-Chair [The Files Interview]

6 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.
WRAP: The World Health Assembly At a Glance #WHA78

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.
Countries Agree To Pay More To WHO In The Time Of The Greatest Disruption To Global Health Financing

2 weeks ago | genevahealthfiles.substack.com | Priti Patnaik

Hi, The funding crisis in global health and at WHO is bringing new idioms and vocabulary to Geneva. At an event this week, one global health scholar termed the current phase as “Zwischenzeit” - an “in-between” time between changing orders.
Multilateralism in Global Health on the Razor’s Edge: Countries Adopt New Pandemic Agreement at the World Health Assembly

2 weeks ago | genevahealthfiles.substack.com | Priti Patnaik

Hi,One of the escalators at the Palais des Nations, the United Nations’ Geneva offices broke down merely hours after the World Health Assembly began on May 19th this week. I read some meaning into it. It quite literally could be an indicator of the financial crisis impacting the UN. It also signified the one final effort that delegates had to take to climb up the last flight of stairs to wrap up the Pandemic Agreement negotiations.
Jeremy Farrar: “WHO has to be a generous center”

2 weeks ago | genevahealthfiles.substack.com | Priti Patnaik

Hi, In today’s edition, we bring you a speech made by Jeremy Farrar, WHO Chief Scientist, who has been appointed as the new Assistant Director-General (ADG) of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Control, in a restructured leadership team at the institution announced days ago. We found his address made today in Geneva, insightful, providing context on how top global health leaders are thinking about what comes next, at a time of turbulence in the sector.
Turn Words Into Action For Greater Transparency In Pharmaceutical Markets [GUEST ESSAY]; GHF Jobs Scanner

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

Hi, Health activists are reviving the transparency agenda in global health. In today’s op-ed, health experts weigh in on the unfinished business of bringing greater transparency in pharmaceutical markets. We hope you find this useful in making the connections between the issues of access, intellectual property, and the pricing of medical products. Next week will see a slew of side events on these matters alongside the World Health Assembly in Geneva. I will be moderating two of these.
Exclusive: WHO Member States Agree on Key Resolution on The Future Work for The Pandemic Agreement, "Preserve Balance" [WHA78 PRIMER]

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

Hi,The adoption of the Pandemic Agreement at the World Health Assembly next week in Geneva will be a centerpiece of the annual meeting. In today’s edition, we bring you an exclusive on the process that went into negotiating a resolution that lays the path forward on the post-adoption landscape - chiefly on the work towards a Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing Mechanism. More from us in the coming days. Thank you for reading and keeping up with the news cycle from Geneva.
The New Leadership Team at WHO: Restructuring Update

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

Hi, Here is a brief update from us on this morning’s announcement at World Health Organization of a newly restructured leadership team. This story may be updated subsequently when we have more information. 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.