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World Council of Churches: our approach to decolonization

A discussion with Dr Mwai Makoka and Dr Masiiwa Gunda, World Council of Churches 12 December 2024, 15.00-16.15 CET (Zoom) Zoom Registration: here Dr Mwai Makoka is Programme Executive for health and healing and Dr. Masiiwa Gunda is Programme Executive for overcoming racism, xenophobia and discrimination at World Council of Churches. Together, they will discuss how the World Council of Churches…

EB TODAY: Intersessional check-in meetings

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 16.00-17-00 CET Dear all After three intersessional check-in meetings and a full week of WHA TODAY sessions during the 76th World Health Assembly in May 2024, we will invite civil society colleagues to come together again towards the en of the year. WHO member states agreed, in May, to convene the 156th session of the Executive Board on Monday, 3 February 2025, at…

Health at the mercy of a poor climate deal

Assessment of COP29, by Remco van de Pas Thursday, 28 November 2024, 15.00-16.00 CET In this session Remco van de Pas (UNU-IIGH) provided his take on the COP29 Climate Change Convention developments in Baku and what its outcomes imply for global health equity. We’ll discuss with participants its impact and alternatives for financing international, urgently needed, climate and health…

On the World Health Organization, its governance, and what to do with it as civil society

Session as part of an IPHU on global governance Webinar on 13 November 2024 A series of regional International People’s Health Universities around Global Health Governance was organized by the People’s Health Movement in 2024 as a strategy to strengthen the articulation between the PHM’s global and local activism and to deepen and broaden a shared understanding of Global Health…

Walking the Talk of Decolonization: Institutional Transformation through Localization

A discussion with Martin Gallard, Terre des hommes 14 November 2024, 15.00-16.00 CET (Zoom) Martin Gallard is Partnership Project Manager for Terre des hommes, an NGO based in Lausanne, Switzerland. In his presentation, he explored the commitment of Terre des hommes to partnership, localisation and decolonisation grounded in an in-depth situation analysis of the institution’s global…

A Primary Health Care approach to address and overcome health and climate injustice

A conversation with Dheepa Rajan Public discussion meeting on 24 October 2024 Dheepa Rajan, WHO representative, joined us on Thursday 24 October for a conversation on what is needed at local, regional and national level in line with a Primary Health Care approach to address and overcome the interrelated health and climate injustice. She introduced WHO approach on PHC and climate change (see…

Health workforce shortage: Are there potential ways out of the current healthcare crisis?

MMS Symposium, 30 October 2024 Worldwide as well as in Switzerland we are facing a shortage of trained healthcare professionals. Low-income countries, where healthcare provision is already weak, are being particularly affected. However, the staff shortage threatens healthcare for all across the world. According to estimates by the International Council of Nurses (ICN), there was a shortage of…

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