The Global Network for Academic Public Health (GNAPH), representing leading academic public health institutions across seven world regions, expresses its strong support for the continued independence of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) in Australia. We support CAPHIA’s call for the reversal of the decision to absorb VicHealth into the Victorian Department of Health. For […]
A Climate of Despair? A Climate of Hope? Hate less, do more: Climate despair, epidemic anxiety, epidemic hatred and the need for a new public mental health in the age of disinformation Photo credit: John Middleton Climate despair – and how to respond? Friends, colleagues, defenders of health! The phenomenon of climate despair is being […]
A Climate of Despair? A Climate of Hope? Migration and health – a tsunami of mass destitution and disease, and a backlash of repressive politics In November, I made presentations on migration and health for the APACPH congress in Thailand, November 7th, and the European Schools of Public Health (ASPHER) meeting at Poznan, Poland, November 24th. Congratulations […]
Lessons from the World Health Summit in October In October, Laura Magaña and I attended the World Health Summit (WHS) in Berlin. Before this we joined the World Health Academic Alliance Council for discussion of its activities over the last two years and plans going forward. (Figure 1) Colleagues reflected on the success of the […]
