Dear Colleagues,

Easter saw much needed peace messages from the pope and even more heart-warming ‘We all just have one home’ videos coming from Artemis II astronauts, yet on World Health Day  (7 April) the current US president thought it appropriate to tweet an apocalyptic(/genocidal) threat against an entire civilization. Meanwhile, far away in Lyon, the  One Health Summit was taking place, highlighting the ‘interdependence of human, animal, plant ànd ecosystem health’. Doubt Samuel Huntington had foreseen that scenario decades ago.  Unbelievably revolting and scary times, even if ‘One Health’ is  ostensibly “rising on the global health policy agenda”.

On a more positive note, last weekend, the  Chancery of the Accra Reset announced an 18-member High-level panel to reform global health governance, in a further effort to reposition African and Global South voices at the centre of global health decision-making. 

Jean Kaseya (Africa CDC) clearly agreed, later this week in...