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Playing catch-up or coordinated policy? How international institutions are responding to mental health risks for young people amidst COVID-19.

With the recent release of The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development, it is an opportune moment to reflect on the future of global mental health.

In this blog post I will offer reflections on the World Bank’s involvement in the broad field of human rights.

Sustainable development and healthy populations go hand in hand. But with patient demand ever increasing, how can countries across the development spectrum ensure their health systems can deliver healthcare for all?

The leading voices of global health policy are primarily drawn from a small, closely connected network of mostly Western, mostly male perspectives.

Reflecting on the biggest challenges and opportunities for health systems over the next 20 years.

Our BMJ series on the World Bank has just been published. This reflects the first year of work of our larger project on the World Bank in global health and robust collaboration among team members at the Global Health Governance Programme.

In September 2016, a new major project funded by the Wellcome Trust titled ‘The Economic Gaze: The World Bank’s Influence in Global Pubic Health’ was launched at the Global Health Governance Programme in Edinburgh. In this blog post, I outline our central research questions and the relevance of the project to both academia and policy. 

This week, health ministers from across the world are making the yearly pilgrimage to Geneva for the 70th World Health Assembly.

Reflecting on encouraging handwashing as a public health measure.

The common norms and rules-based order on which international cooperation has been based for seven decades are increasingly being challenged. The rise of new economic powers since the post-1945 creation of the Bretton Woods institutions – including the establishment of the World Bank in 1944 and World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1948 – has caused a paradigm shift in global health. There are growing calls to reform global governance structures to better reflect global realities. What implications do the changing nature of global governance arrangements have for global health diplomacy?

Over the past couple of weeks I have been investigating the current landscape of publicly available data on infectious disease outbreaks. This data has been reported through several channels. Below is a discussion regarding various datasets, what data is collected and how it is presented, how they are financed, and where they can be found.