Peter Singer
@petersinger.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto. Former Special Advisor to WHO Director General; Co-founder of Grand Challenges Canada and University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. My blog: singerp.substack.com
In Busia, Kenya, Agnes Okose carries TB samples to the lab in a lunch cooler. Aid paid for her trips until January. Now her snack stall does. The aid is leaving. Seventeen cents on the health spending dollar stays. My 🆕 piece open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
Aid is leaving. But what helps replace it is already there.
The low- and middle-income country playbook to navigate the aid collapse.
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Excellent piece by @picardonhealth.bsky.social
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · last wk.We have become exceptionally good at extending lifespan. Now we must focus on extending healthspan. Sickness care is important, but we can do a lot more to prevent chronic illnesses and painful conditions, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com
@petersinger.bsky.social Per your model’s prediction. Canada should fund GLP1 medications to improve our health, our economy and reduce our public health expenditures.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.A study of workers in Denmark showed a 17.3 percent decline in long-term sick leave among those who were treated with Ozempic, according to results published this month in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.
Does BPC-157 work? Nobody knows. Is it safe? Maybe, maybe not. But coming soon to a clinic near you.
Canada will spend $10-trillion on health over the next twenty-five years. We treat all of it as cost, but it's an investment; $1.5-trillion could return to government. But, on our current path, $518 billion is left on the table, by @petersinger.bsky.social singerp.substack.com/p/518-billio...
$518 billion hiding on the public books.
Turning health spending into investment — Canada as a model.
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Canada will spend $10 trillion on health over 25 years and books all of it as cost. $1.5 trillion could return to government — $518 billion of it only with deliberate action. A country that capitalizes its pipelines is expensing its biggest hidden asset. New piece 👇 open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
$518 billion hiding on the public books.
Turning health spending into investment — Canada as a model.
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My latest with Emmet Livingstone in Bunia. Just under 2,000 cases as per 11th of July. @angelarasmussen.bsky.social @petersinger.bsky.social www.economist.com/middle-east-...
The Ebola epidemic is getting out of control
It has spread to five provinces in Congo and may soon reach South Sudan
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Is The Lancet antisemitic? I counted its Gaza coverage, coded editorials, traced where claims travelled. My answer: no. But it does stoke hostility to Jews by cloaking opinion in scientific authority without subjecting it to the same rigour. open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
Is The Lancet antisemitic?
No – but by cloaking antizionism in scientific authority, it stokes hostility to Jews
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And I would argue that this framing transcends the journal that @petersinger.bsky.social writes about here. I’m thinking of other academic/professional journals as well as literary publications/trade magazines that run (and/or aggregate and amplify) journalism, book reviews, and other (NON)fiction.
DRC Ebola has crossed 1,000 confirmed cases. Crossed threshhold ~37 days from notification, vs ~116 for West Africa and ~242 for North Kivu. Already across 34 health zones, two countries. No licensed vaccine for this species, none in trials. Why that matters: open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
Why the race for an Ebola vaccine is worth winning
Modelling the Bundibugyo outbreak shows the value of a vaccine — and why the 100 Days Mission’s bet on speed is exactly right
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Global health is rebalancing from supplying innovations to demanding them — and the aid collapse is what’s forcing it. My new piece on what that shift takes, with Grand Challenges Canada as the pathfinder. singerp.substack.com/p/scaling-he...
Scaling health innovation is a demand problem
As development aid collapses, Karlee Silver on why Grand Challenges Canada is rebalancing from supply to demand.
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@petersinger.bsky.social has modelled various scenarios and writes about why we need a vaccine at singerp.substack.com/p/why-the-ra...
Why the race for an Ebola vaccine is worth winning
Modelling the Bundibugyo outbreak shows the value of a vaccine — and why the 100 Days Mission’s bet on speed is exactly right
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A month in, the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in DRC + Uganda has passed 800 confirmed cases — already the third-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. 1/3 open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
Why the race for an Ebola vaccine is worth winning
Modelling the Bundibugyo outbreak shows the value of a vaccine — and why the 100 Days Mission’s bet on speed is exactly right
open.substack.com
A month in, the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in DRC + Uganda has passed 800 confirmed cases — already the third-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. 1/3 open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
Why the race for an Ebola vaccine is worth winning
Modelling the Bundibugyo outbreak shows the value of a vaccine — and why the 100 Days Mission’s bet on speed is exactly right
open.substack.com
“Health is an investment, not a cost” is something I heard for years. No one could tell me how much was returned or to whom. So I modelled it across 58 countries over 25 years. Bottom line: $36 trillion opportunity. See below. Happy to share any country’s profile. open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
What do people mean when they say, “health is an investment”? Fiscally Positive Health provides an answer.
One-fifth of health spending could be returned to government, but only half of that is captured today. That’s $36 trillion governments are leaving on the table.
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“Health is an investment, not a cost” is something I heard for years. No one could tell me how much was returned or to whom. So I modelled it across 58 countries over 25 years. Bottom line: $36 trillion opportunity. See below. Happy to share any country’s profile. open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
What do people mean when they say, “health is an investment”? Fiscally Positive Health provides an answer.
One-fifth of health spending could be returned to government, but only half of that is captured today. That’s $36 trillion governments are leaving on the table.
open.substack.com
Process-mode has been WHO’s defining identity for a generation. The next Director-General will need to flip it to relentless focus on results. Clip from my podcast with @jocalynclark.bsky.social (BMJ). Full episode open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
Great cautionary tale by @picardonhealth.bsky.social I loved the plot twist on AI at the end.
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat financial and political price will Quebec pay for its digital transformation? Its electronic health record rollout has already cost $402-million and the project could hit $3-billion, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com
What’s at stake in the race for the next @who.int director-general, which has just kicked off? I spoke to a range of experts with deep experience of WHO.
This was so fun! Trading intel & thoughts on WHO Director-General campaign and what kind of the leader the organisation needs next. (And it’s not a 🦄🦄🦄.) 🎧 Podcast link below. ✏️ My NEW article: www.bmj.com/content/393/...
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Peter Singer@petersinger.bsky.social · 3mo agoWHO faces the worst crisis in its 78-year history, according to a new article. My mantra for the DG race: more results, less politics. A conversation with @jocalynclark.bsky.social on her new @bmj.com piece — and what every candidate should be pressed on. open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
WHO faces the worst crisis in its 78-year history, according to a new article. My mantra for the DG race: more results, less politics. A conversation with @jocalynclark.bsky.social on her new @bmj.com piece — and what every candidate should be pressed on. open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
More results, less politics? “Who will be the next leader of the beleaguered WHO?”
With Jocalyn Clark, International Editor of the BMJ
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Under the IHR (2005), @drtedros.who.int, the Director General of WHO, having consulted the States Parties where the event is occurring, has determined that the Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in DRC & Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern bit.ly/3P4ZDac
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Is Ozempic healthcare’s silver bullet? ft. Dr. Peter Singer | Culture Lab
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Is Ozempic healthcare’s silver bullet? ft. Dr. Peter Singer | Culture Lab
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🆕 Join @kronellenfitsch.bsky.social and @gabederoche.bsky.social in the lab as they look under the microscope with this week's "loaded question": Is Ozempic healthcare’s silver bullet? Featuring Dr. @petersinger.bsky.social.
I visited the Culture Lab with @kronellenfitsch.bsky.social and @gabederoche.bsky.social to talk GLP1s. It was a helluva a lot of fun. Check it out airquotesmedia.com/culturelab We discussed GLP-1 cultural shifts: from lifestyle to longevity drugs and from government cost to investment. 1/3
Culture Lab | AQM
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Thanks for this work for Canada! As I listened, I thought about the fantastic impact these health improvements would have on our citizens and our overwhelmed health system.
I visited the Culture Lab with @kronellenfitsch.bsky.social and @gabederoche.bsky.social to talk GLP1s. It was a helluva a lot of fun. Check it out airquotesmedia.com/culturelab We discussed GLP-1 cultural shifts: from lifestyle to longevity drugs and from government cost to investment. 1/3
Culture Lab | AQM
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The trillion-dollar GLP-1 fiscal opportunity governments will miss. Generic ‘Ozempic’ could pay for itself and make money for taxpayers in 80-95 countries, by @petersinger.bsky.social singerp.substack.com/p/the-trilli...
The trillion-dollar GLP-1 fiscal opportunity governments will miss
Generic ‘Ozempic’ could pay for itself and make money for taxpayers in 80-95 countries
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