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As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75 this month, we must urgently reclaim the human rights narrative in global health and defend civic space, argue Rajat Khosla and Katri Bertram > “If access to healthcare is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?” —Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist and physician For global health, 2023 has been a particularly challenging year. Armed conflicts and authoritarian nationalist leadership are on the ...

For the Pandemic Accord to be effective, member states must urgently focus negotiations to define its scope, including its definition of “pandemic,” and ensure the definition avoids the pitfalls of past mistakes, argue Noor Shakfeh, Fifa Rahman, and Katri Bertram Member states of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Body (INB)1 have roughly nine months left before they need to present a draft outcome to the World Health Assembly in May 2024. While their negotiations to date have understandably ...

To improve health outcomes for all people, including the individual issues we are passionate about, we need to understand the importance of bigger systemic changes and other issues that impact our focus area. We need to read beyond our narrow areas, meet with people with diverse expertise and experiences, and learn how to shape a broader agenda.