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On leave

The past weeks have been a whirlwind (how many birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, end-of-school-year celebrations, and trips can you squeeze into a month, on top of starting a new job?). I have…

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👇This! Addition by me below… “it’s not because Bill claims otherwise 200 billion times, that it becomes any more true.” (or uses billions of dollars to force tens of thousands in the global health community to parrot what he wants to hear)

International Health Policies (IHP) network@ihpnetwork.bsky.social · 3w ago

Check out this week's IHP news 889: Launch WHO office in Tokyo, HLPF on SDGs in New York, Global Fund Board meeting in Geneva, Accra Reset in Dakar, the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ & plenty more www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u...

At least someone draws a line - and this is not a nobody… Where’s the rest? www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

Warren Buffett setzt Milliardenspende an Stiftung von Bill Gates aus

Jahrelang hat Bill Gates’ Stiftung Großspenden von Warren Buffett erhalten. Damit ist vorerst Schluss. Der 95-Jährige will erst wieder mit dem Microsoft-Mitgründer sprechen, wenn es Klarheit über dess...

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🚨 Ebola | The AfricaCDC says: ✔️ The DRC's Ebola outbreak is the fastest-growing on record. ✔️Confirmed cases rose 25% last week to 1,759, with deaths reaching 600. ✔️Every 10 infections lead to roughly 14 more. ✔️The case fatality rate is 34%. @undp.org @unicef.org @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social

Ebola Cases Climb 25% As UN Warns Outbreak May Push One Million Into Poverty - Health Policy Watch

The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak is the fastest-growing on record, Africa CDC told its weekly briefing on Wednesday, with confirmed cases

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#Ebola - the type of update that is currently lacking but direly needed! 👇

The Economist@economist.com · 3w ago

Measures such as testing, contact tracing and isolation are crucial to containing the strain of Ebola causing an outbreak in Congo. Yet very little of this is happening in Ituri, the main province affected by the epidemic

🚨 Attacks on healthcare in Ukraine are too consistent to be a random consequence of war, our new report indicates. Read here:

The destruction of healthcare in Ukraine is deliberate and calculated | MSF

MSF's latest report documents attacks on healthcare in Ukraine, indicating a deliberate strategy to destroy the medical system.

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I’m now using 3 social platforms (LinkedIn, Insta & Bluesky) and it’s not only too much, but everything’s crazily fragmented. I find something here but think it should rather be shared with my LinkedIn network…

“this is in part on us. Will we find the courage to speak up?” #mustread #humanrights #Sudan

Nick Kristof@nickkristof.bsky.social · 4w ago

"We should have the fortitude to speak up about human rights outrages whether the responsible party is Russia, China, Israel, America or the Emirates; if you care about human rights in only some places, you don’t actually care about human rights." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o... Thoughts?

Worth a read (Carney / Stubb) 👇 When other leaders are going haywire or are lost, why not position yourself as the sane alternative? 😉 Last line: “we invite (others) to join us on this quest.”

As the Berlin mayor falls (can‘t/won‘t run in September), a reminder to get active on issues important for our city, including: ♥️ Social issues (health, education, equality) 🍃 Our habitat (important for people’s health & well-being & environment/climate) 🗳️ Engagement (rallying people to vote)

Bundestag day (across from the Chancellory)

And the world (and our #globalhealth sector) continues its ways, with this concluding a hearing on child abuse and men keeping girls and women as sex slaves. #MoneyNoMorals

Devastating Bangladesh reports more than 120,000 suspected and confirmed measles cases since cases spiked in mid-March share.google/BZzHZLm49KSp...

Bangladesh made huge progress on measles but now children keep dying

More than 120,000 suspected and confirmed measles cases have been reported in Bangladesh, where hospitals are overwhelmed.

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This #Ebola outbreak was declared underway on 5/15, not yet 2 months ago. Weeks ago it became the 3rd largest on record. With DRC's 1708 cases & Uganda's 20 cases, it is halfway to becoming the 2nd largest on record. (DRC, 2018-2020, 3,470 cases.) Gonna be big.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 4w ago

#Ebola update: DRC reported 84 new cases (59 already dead) on 7/6. That brings their confirmed totals to 1708 cases, 580 of whom have died. On 7/6, 12,190 contacts of cases were on the monitoring list; 75% of them were reached that day. insp.cd/sitrep-n053-...

Europe must learn from America’s assault on science @chrischirp.bsky.social @tiagocorreia.bsky.social & I warn in Eur J Public Health that what is happening there could happen here, with catastrophic consequences @eupha.bsky.social academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Despite the title, the spoiler: @nytimes.com is not convinced (and I doubt the public is either) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/w...

A Plan to Stop the Far Right

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What’s power without resources? Worth a read 👇 (Would love your thoughts, @davidmcnair.bsky.social )

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our new comment in @lancetgh.bsky.social Country ownership without fiscal justice is responsibility without resources www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“Germany’s politics are likewise often described as polarized. Yet the rise of the AfD is not chiefly a story of symmetric divergence but of a radical-right challenger shifting discourse and incentives systemwide.“ 1/2

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4w ago

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

#Ebola update: DRC reported 63 new confirmed cases as of 7/5, 8 of whom are already dead. In total so far in DRC, there've been 1624 cases & 521 deaths, for a CFR of ~32%. Lower than most Zaire & Sudan outbreaks, but still sizable. About 12,400 contacts have been identified, with 77% followed.

I’m very concerned about the lack of regular & transparent #Ebola updates. I understand we’re flying blind in the response, which is hugely explosive due to lack of trust, misinformation and WHO being at its riskiest phase in decades. Compare this to the daily, hourly Hanta or Covid communication…

The Ebola toll in DRC has surpassed 500 deaths. Healthcare workers are experiencing such terrible conditions and pay they’re preparing to strike. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...

Ebola death toll in DR Congo surpasses 500

Nation’s 17th Ebola epidemic is fuelled by the Bundibugyo virus, with no existing vaccine or approved treatment options.

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For both sides of the pond. Today - and every day.

2026 “Unsere Demokratie ist bedroht.” @zeit.de (AfD is polling >40% ahead of September’s regional state election.)

When a health minister tries to cut the health budget and the chancellor a few weeks later decides everyone needs to get a doctor’s note even for one sick day…. 🧐🤦‍♀️…literally everyone loses.

#Ebola update: DRC confirmed 33 new cases on 6/28. I think 17 of those cases are already dead. They bring the outbreak total in DRC to 1307 confirmed cases with 377 deaths. In recent days, confirmed case counts — ie the cases that are coming to light — have risen by the dozens. Long road ahead.

Happy pride from Berlin! Maus, unpolitisch war gestern. Haltung ist hot 🌈 💪

Lesbian rights are human rights. Gay rights are human rights. Bisexual rights are human rights. Transgender rights are human rights. Happy #Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Enjoy the coming relatively cool week in Western Europe while it lasts! Forecast for 8 July 🥵.

With 41.4 degrees, Germany just broke temperature recrords 🔥. I haven’t seen a single Cabinet minister refer to a climate emergency. Maybe they are too busy having a Feierabend bier? 🍻 🤯https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/rekord-fuer-waermste-nacht-in-deutschland-gruene-fuer-mehr-klimaanlagen-100.html

#Venezuela #healthsystem #earthquake 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/w...

The Venezuela Earthquakes Hit a Health System Already in Crisis

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