Tag: WHO
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Climate action needed to protect public health
PHAA Intern Allyson Todd and PHAA Senior Policy and Advocacy Adviser Malcolm Baalman Climate change poses one of the biggest threats to human health. The latest IPCC assessment report urges all nations to urgently take far greater climate change action to halve global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030. This…
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What’s in the WHO’s COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health?
Anna Alex – PHAA intern Leading up to COP26 in Glasgow next week, the World Health Organisation has released a special report, the Health Argument for Climate Action, outlining 10 recommendations made by the global health community for Heads of States to consider as priority areas and actionable points. The…
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Henrietta Lacks’ iconic story of inequity, injustice, and disparities in health holds Australian relevance
Dr Mary-Anne Land (PHAA) & Associate Professor Lisa Whop (ANU) As a young mother, Henrietta Lacks and her husband were raising five children near Baltimore when she fell ill. She went to Johns Hopkins – one of the few hospitals at the time which would treat black people – after…
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A Q&A with a WHO expert on Defeating Meningitis
Melanie Parker – PHAA Intern The global COVID-19 pandemic has overshadowed much of the other work public health professionals and researchers are involved in. This includes climate change, obesity, and other communicable diseases such as meningitis. Meningitis can have devastating impacts on individuals and increase financial burden on the…
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More talk, no action: Australia’s approach to trade rules restraining vaccine production
Deborah Gleeson, La Trobe University Papua New Guinea’s COVID-19 outbreak is a portent of the “catastrophic moral failure” the head of the World Health Organization warned of in January due to poor countries being pushed to the back of the vaccine queue. Australia has gifted 8,000 doses to PNG, and…
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The CODE Update – 17 March
Priscilla Robinson View this week’s spreadsheet This week there are some interesting – and slightly concerning – changes in patterns. Overall this week, the snapshot shows that whilst cases are up about 10% overall, fatalities are down compared with last week. Cases are currently rising in half of the WHO…
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Now is not the time to cut funds to the WHO
Now is not the time to cut funding to the world’s leading public health support agency.