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New definitions of oral health provide an opportunity to change mindsets and promote innovation to tackle high levels of unmet needs, but this will only be realised with a radical change in practice, argue Julian Fisher and colleagues More than 3.5 billion people globally suffer from the main oral diseases. These conditions combined have an estimated global prevalence of 45%—higher than any other non-communicable disease.1 A major barrier to improving this situation is our approach to oral health. The prevailing mindset is that oral health is synonymous with dentistry and that poor oral hea...

Despite the polycrisis confronting our world, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres counsels, we must rebuild trust and restore hope in 2024. In global health there are grounds for optimism, and opportunity too. Some of that lies in the World Health Organization (WHO). When Dr Tedros, WHO’s director-general, assumed helm of WHO in 2017, Anders Nordstrom, a former senior WHO member of staff decried the performance of WHO’s country offices and declared that “radical change is needed.”1 Arguably Tedros is delivering. What happens “on the ground” is central to his WHO Transformatio...

Tackling the gender pay gap is essential for a more inclusive global health sector, but progress towards closing the gap has remained slow, highlighting the need for better transparency and accountability. Mandatory reporting is an important first step in pushing for change, say Victoria Olarewaju and colleagues This year’s Equal Pay Day in the UK is 22 November. The UK based Fawcett Society, which campaigns for gender equality, reports that the nation’s mean gender pay gap based on hourly pay is 10.7% among full time workers. In other words, 22 November is the date when women effectively...

Kent Buse and Devaki Nambiar argue that declarations of commitment to health equity are too often a charade intended to distract from the need to inspire political action on the social and commercial determinants of health The Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 called for health for all.1 Most declarations since reiterate this commitment to health equity, including the 2023 UN political declaration on universal health coverage recently adopted in New York.2 But the meetings and processes producing these declarations differ markedly. The 1978 meeting intended to “exert moral pressure” and was del...

Life sciences innovation and healthcare advancement depend on data. Today’s data fails to offer a complete picture of women’s health. What can be done?