Dear Colleagues,
With much of the world on fire, and every week bringing new horrors, the global health community is gearing up for a number of meetings, discussions and negotiations in the coming weeks, also starting 2026 in earnest.
Next week, the PABS discussions pick up again in Geneva (20-22 January). The 158th WHO Executive Board meeting is scheduled for 2-7 Feb, with a rather full agenda as you can imagine given the state of the planet. And of course, the “Davos community” also has its yearly snowy “get-together” (19-23 January), this time in “A Spirit of Dialogue”. In Davos speak, “at a pivotal moment for global cooperation”, moreover (ahum). Still in this part of the world, at the Munich security conference, the ‘Commission of Commissions’ (Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health) will be launched in February (we do recommend the CSIS podcast ‘sneak preview’).
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