PART 2: Lessons for me, and for the Global Network for Academic Public Health GNAPH President John Middleton, with World Federation of Public Health Associations, Chief Executive officer, Professor Bettina Borisch. GNAPH and WPFHA lead a group of global health organisations implementing the competencies and outcomes framework Overwhelmingly positive and optimistic impressions For me, the […]
WHO 5th steering group photo march 24th 2026 The fifth steering group meeting of the WHO roadmap for public health workforce including emergencies In March this year, public health experts convened at the WHO headquarters in Geneva for the 5th steering group meeting of the WHO roadmap for public health workforce including emergencies. GNAPH has […]
A senior colleague in European public health tells me, “Public health is currently off the agenda not only in the US but also in Europe because all countries have forgotten the pandemic and are now in ‘war’ mode. This status is even more heightened by the ongoing events in the Middle East.” It is to […]
Thirteen years ago, I wrote that gender is a poverty and public health issue. Sadly, that statement is more urgent today than it was even then. Across the world, women’s rights—the foundation of community well-being and collective progress—are being systematically eroded. From legislative attacks on reproductive autonomy to the silencing of women’s voices in politics, […]
A New Year: A New Resolve, a Renewed Moral Compass for Public Health “Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the […]
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 […]
Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 launched at Berlin World Health Summit. GNAPH President John Middleton, Immediate Past President Laura Magaña, and Association of Schools of Public Health in Africa President and GNAPH member Margaret Kaseje were in Berlin earlier this month for the World Health Summit. John Middleton reports here on the launch of […]
Friends, colleagues, defenders of health! This is my second communication as President of the Global Network for Academic Public Health (GNAPH). I believe the public health community is generous in spirit, rigorous in our pursuit of scientific fact, and committed to the people we serve and the planet we share. I have experienced this generosity […]
