Of all the fault lines Covid-19 has exposed in global health, the need to address obesity has emerged as an unexpected but urgently important one. A new report from the World Obesity Federation shows that a shocking 2.2 million of the 2.5 million (or 90%) of global deaths were in countries with high levels of obesity.  It is estimated that arou...

The interconnections between climate and human health are now widely recognised: by scientists, by policymakers and by communities experiencing the effects of the #ClimateEmergency first-hand. From the global health perspective, the evidence base for the links between health and climate change is growing. Dots are being connected between dengu...

Rachel Thompson is a researcher currently based at a UK think-tank. In this blog she shares her personal reflections from the recent Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) on the political economy of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), considering the wider implications for our understanding of Global Health. Last week the elite of Global Heal...

There exists a tension between the optimism and promise of new technologies, and the reality of working in low resource environments. This tension has an important bearing in global health security, where there is an urgent need to guide and operationalise technological innovations for individual and collective health security. However, new tech...