Dear Colleagues,
In the past few years, the world has entered a post-neoliberal (& increasingly predatory ) International Economic Order. In this newsletter issue we continue to pay attention to global health’s awkward adjustment to this “brave new world”. Little by little, a consensus seems to be forming on the future of Global Health ( though not everybody agrees). It seems to encompass both the Accra Reset and, to a lesser extent,a ‘Middle Powers moment’ (apparently the successor to the ‘cosmopolitan moment’ of a while ago : )) – even if Ilona Kickbusch was the first one to nuance the latter in a webinar yesterday, stressing that Middle Powers clearly “can’t save global health alone”. Anyway, both make sense indeed in the current circumstances, and the first one (Accra Reset) is long overdue moreover. Leaders involved in the Accra Reset and from Middle Power leaders face a key question, though: are they listening enough to, and can they sufficiently address Gen Z...