Geneva Health Files

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

Hi, Ahead of the World Health Assembly next week, we bring you a primer on WHO financing, including efforts towards a prioritization of its activities in the light of the current budget crunch, and put together a picture of how the numbers add up. On a sunny Sunday morning, I poured over these documents, so our reader do not have to! Hope you find this useful as a ready reckoner on the state of WHO’s financial health. More from us in the coming days. Find our work valuable?

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

Dear Readers, I am so delighted to announce the Geneva Health Files fellows for 2025 from nearly a dozen countries around the world. They bring a formidable, collective expertise with backgrounds in medical, legal and the field of humanities. Many of our fellows will write for our readership, help in production, and others will also assist with the business aspects of our journalistic initiative. I am honored to learn from, and work with this inter-disciplinary team of fellows.

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

Hi, As the extent of the crisis in global health becomes clearer going beyond the immediate financing crunch, all kinds of measures are on the table. The range of implications of the lack of resources for health programmes over the medium to long term is yet to become fully evident. But what we reasonably know is that traditional donor countries will not step in significantly to fill the hole left by the withdrawal of the U.S. from the sector.

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

Hi, The immunization agenda is under attack, not only from some governments, but also from a growing anti-science movement in many parts of the world. Organizations such as Gavi - The Vaccine Alliance have to contend with both - the challenges of disinformation at the highest levels of policy-making, and with uncertainty in the way they are funded. The broad shifts sweeping global health financing has left no organization untouched.

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

Hi, A painful transition in global health is underway, that has been caused by a financial crunch, a shift in politics, exacerbating operational urgency in a sector that has long been under-funded. Sometimes though, a crisis can be put to a good use or on the other hand, be deployed to meet political objectives. It is still too early to say whether the current remaking of global health will end up for the better.