Dear Colleagues,
We start this week’s issue with a short notification: as part of the IHP team is in Nagasaki for the moment – in the past few days for the 2024 EV venture, while on Monday the 8th Global HSR symposium kicks off – we hope you understand your weekly IHP newsletter arrives on Saturday this week. We also schedule one for next Saturday (23 November), if all goes well. After the Nagasaki symposium we intend to take a short break but stay tuned for a catch-up issue when back in Belgium, somewhere around 7-8 December.
Without much further ado, let’s get then into some the main highlights of this week in global health – see the ‘Highlights section’ (which we should perhaps rename ‘Highlights & Lowlights’ section, the way things are going on the planet…). As you’ll notice, there’s a lot going on in the world of global & planetary health – with some good, but far more bad and ugly.
Speaking of the latter, last week half of the Americans voted for Trump, with...
