A new open-access eBook, Transformative Public Health Education, has been published by Public Health Reviews, bringing together scholarship on innovative, inclusive, and policy-relevant approaches to preparing the public health workforce. The eBook grew out of a special issue focused on how public health education can better prepare learners and professionals to adapt, respond, innovate, and […]
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. – The Second Coming WB Yeats “AI will most probably sort of lead to the […]
The Global Public Health Alliance (GPHA) formally launched on September 8, 2026, during the 18th World Congress on Public Health in Cape Town, bringing together three major pillars of the global public health community: the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA), Global Network for Academic Public Health (GNAPH), and the International Association of National […]
Members of the Global Network for Academic Public Health have recently returned to their respective countries after taking part in the immensely productive and successful World Congress on Public Health in Cape town, South Africa, September 6th-9th. Five representatives of our regional associations shared a platform on September 7th, celebrating our successes. This included the […]
The Global Network for Academic Public Health (GNAPH) has joined leading scientific and public health organizations in a collective statement reaffirming confidence in the safety and effectiveness of childhood vaccination. Initiated by the World Health Summit Academic Alliance in collaboration with international partners, the statement highlights the extensive scientific evidence supporting routine childhood vaccination, including […]
Councillor Ayumu Kikuchi, representative of the Japanese Embassy in London addresses the Hiroshima Day Remembrance in Coventry Cathedral, August 6th 2026. On August 6th I attended the annual Coventry Cathedral commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs. The Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation organises the remembrance every year […]
FIGURE 1: A Pyro-cumulus firecloud in Valpacos, Portugal,July 29th 2026 Picture: MeteoTras-os montes A World in Flames The world is on fire. More than three hundred thousand people in Southern France and Spain have become the latest climate refugees in the last month. They were not included in the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimate […]
Academic public health institutions from across the Arab region officially launched the Arab Network for Academic Public Health (ANAPH) on April 13, 2026, marking an important milestone for regional collaboration in public health education, research, and practice. Established through collaboration among schools, colleges, and institutes of public health from multiple Arab countries, ANAPH aims to strengthen cooperation in […]
The WHO EPHF Training of Trainers Workshop at Manila, Philippines 2026. Photo 8th March 2026. Credit: (©️WHO/Rocel Ann Junio-Balbutin) From 8–10 June 2026, I had the privilege of attending the WHO Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF) Training of Trainers Workshop in Manila, Philippines, a focused, high-energy gathering bringing together public health leaders from Papua New […]
Feature Photo: Dr. Laura Magaña (left), GNAPH Founding President, and Professor Tracy Daszkiewicz PrFPH (right), UK Faculty of Public Health President. Photo courtesy of UKFPH. The Global Network for Academic Public Health congratulates Dr. Laura Magaña, founding president of GNAPH and president and CEO of ASPPH, on being awarded an Honorary Fellowship with the UK […]
