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Presenting Global Health As Heard In Geneva. Dear Readers, Listeners, I am happy to bring you the next episode of the Geneva Health Files podcast. WHO member states concluded historic negotiations on amending the International Health Regulations (IHR) in June 2024. We bring you an exclusive interview with Dr Ashley Bloomfield from New Zealand, who along with his team at the Working Group to amend...

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Dear Readers, Listeners, We are delighted to share the next episode of the Geneva Health Files podcast! In this episode we bring you a comprehensive interview with Fatima Hassan, a South African activist and lawyer, whose efforts have forced greater transparency on how contracts were negotiated and how vaccines were procured during COVID-19. Hassan, is recognized for her work on health and human r...

Presenting Global Health As Heard In Geneva. Dear Readers, Listeners, Presenting the next episode of the Geneva Health Files podcast! In this incisive interview, Peter Sands, who heads The Global Fund - one of the most influential global health agencies - spoke to us earlier this year, sharing his views on financing, climate change and governance matters. As this episode shows, Sands weighs his wo...

Presenting Global Health As Heard In Geneva. Dear Readers, Listeners, I am happy to bring you the next episode of the Geneva Health Files podcast. In this episode we try to demystify marathon negotiations in global health underway in Geneva. I wrote this script keeping my parents in mind, and for people who may not be too familiar with the dynamics of global health politics. I have tried to explai...

Presenting Global Health As Heard In Geneva. Dear Readers, Listeners, I am happy to bring you the next episode of the Geneva Health Files podcast continuing with our series on Voices from the Negotiations . Interviews are an integral part of journalism. But as a former print journalist (those of us who worked for newspapers - they were/are a thing you know), it has been a very interesting experien...

Presenting Global Health As Heard In Geneva. Dear Readers, Listeners, I am happy to bring you the next episode of the Geneva Health Files podcast. In this episode, diplomats steering the negotiations to amend the International Health Regulations, speak to Geneva Health Files on the method and the meaning of these discussions. Listen to Abdullah Asiri of Saudi Arabia and Ashley Bloomfield of New Ze...

Presenting Global Health As Heard On The Street In Geneva. Dear Readers, Listeners, I am happy to bring you the next episode of the Geneva Health Files podcast. Tune in to this episode where we speak to a special guest. Susan K Sell, a renowned academic and a globally acclaimed expert who has shed light on the power imbalances in the politics of intellectual property rights. During her visit to Ge...

Dear Readers, Allow me to gently seize the mic. Two years is a long time in entrepreneurship, but a breathlessly short one in a pandemic news cycle. Geneva Health Files has now completed its first two years - often the most challenging period for any new initiative. This initiative is not fully financially viable yet. But, we have survived. Today we are pleased to bring you this podcast, where I r...

Dear Readers, Listeners, I am happy to bring you our next episode of the Geneva Health Files podcast, encouraged by the response to our first earlier in the year. In this episode we take you on the journey of the TRIPS waiver, how it began and the way it has captured public imagination. While uncertainty swirls around what will happen next in the story of the waiver, let's seize the moment to revi...

Dear Readers, I am happy to announce this introductory podcast from Geneva Health Files. The reasons for starting a podcast are many, including reaching existing readers in a novel way, gaining more readers, making our content accessible in an audio format and bringing you additional voices! Most of all, this podcast has been made possible when a reader, a trained radio journalist, wrote to me off...