Ben Verboom

@verboom.bsky.social

Lecturer in Global Public Health, Queen Mary University of London

Last night @who.int office in Kyiv was hit by debris from one of many strikes in the city, damaging windows on the 3rd floor. No one got injured. Multiple deaths and injuries have been reported so far from the attacks on civilian infrastructure over night. Attacks on health and civilians MUST STOP

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Global Impact of Attacks on Healthcare in Conflict Zones Join Dr Swee Chai Ang of @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, Dr James Smith, & Dr Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social for this crucial discussion July 9, 6-8pm, Milton Lecture Theatre, London. You can also join online Register: tinyurl.com/vacans5t

Global impact of attacks on healthcare in conflict zones

Attacks on healthcare in conflict zones are on the rise. Join to hear first hand accounts of working as a doctor in humanitarian settings.

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The only thing I can say about Keir Starmer is thank God he wasn't PM back in May 1940. He will go along dutifully with whatever Trump claims. Canadians would be fools to think this punter would have our back in a showdown with Trump. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Starmer backs Trump’s Iran bombing saying Tehran cannot develop a nuclear weapon

Prime minister backs US president as he bombs Iranian nuclear sites and says key facilities ‘completely and totally obliterated’

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Palestine was a dominant topic at the World Health Assembly this year. Countries debated how to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and agreed to include Palestine to the International Health Regulations regime. My reporting, with @pritipatnaik.bsky.social, for the Geneva Health Files.

Geneva Health Files@genevahealthfiles.bsky.social · last yr.

Countries Vote in Support of Palestine at World Health Assembly, as Humanitarian and Health Crises Worsen in Gaza Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #275 [The Files In-Depth] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/-countries...

Palestine was a dominant topic at the World Health Assembly this year. Countries debated how to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and agreed to include Palestine to the International Health Regulations regime. My reporting, with @pritipatnaik.bsky.social, for the Geneva Health Files.

Geneva Health Files@genevahealthfiles.bsky.social · last yr.

Countries Vote in Support of Palestine at World Health Assembly, as Humanitarian and Health Crises Worsen in Gaza Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #275 [The Files In-Depth] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/-countries...

@babaaye.bsky.social, Public Services International: “Financialization of health in any form undermines the essence of universal health care. [...] UHC requires global solidarity. Richer countries and international financial institutions need to cancel the debts of developing countries” 💪 #WHA78

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Reports from Gaza confirm that people are now literally dying of starvation. Western leaders have issued words of condemnation, but words are not enough. They have the power to stop this genocide now.

For the latest WHO Watch updates from Geneva on the ongoing World Health Assembly please follow ‪@who-watch.bsky.social‬ #WHOWatch is a People's Health Movement program, casting a political lens on health governance, aiming to inform and disrupt, and elevating local concerns to global spaces #WHA78

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We love opera as much as the next person. But amidst multiple intersecting global health crises, and with civil society delegations being limited to 60-second interventions in these crucial meetings, we wonder if this is the best use of time at the World Health Assembly. #WHA78 #HealthForAll

#WHA president addresses the WHO's fiscal crisis, urging member states to keep @who.int flexibly funded "We the member states must rise above fiscal hesitation with unified resolve. I urge every member state to...provide the organization with the flexibility to act swiftly, wisely and effectively.”

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