Dear Colleagues,

In what was once again a very busy global health policy week – even if we stay away from the  ongoing genocidal & nihilistic horror in the Middle East and elsewhere – we’ll first come back on World TB Day (24 March) ( rather dire commemoration this year, sadly…), and then cover the  Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health  in Cartagena, Colombia (25-27 March), a   G20 Health Working group meeting in South-Africa (where among others, UHC and – especially for Rob Yates – PUBLIC financing  made a much needed comeback) and the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Paris (27-28 March).  

A major chunk of the newsletter is then again dedicated to “Trump 2.0” disruption updates (this week among others with some more focus on PEPFAR’s major troubles, and a not entirely unexpected shock decision on GAVI ) & related analysis on global health governance & financing reform.   A number of reform-related reads went viral again, certainly including a Geneva Health...