Such a pleasure chairing this panel on governance, equity, & political commitment in public health emergencies in Southeast Asia. Key insights include the need to account for the biological weapons convention, national sovereignty over genetic sequence data, and regional MPOX vaccines coordination.

Interesting slide explaining the relationship between the brand new ASEAN Center for Public Health Emergencies and Emerging Diseases (ACPHEED) with other ASEAN entities, governments, @who.int, and others.

Ms Chee Yoke Ling from Third World Network states that there is a shift towards private health care in many countries and that this is not only unsustainable, but results in massive economic costs as a result of productivity losses due to reduced healthcare accessibility.

Prof Kiat Ruxrungtham talks about the need for reasonable IP regimes for regional manufacturing and distribution for vaccine manufacturing in Asia.

Looking forward to moderating the panel on Governance, Equity, and Political Commitment in ASEAN, today at @monashuniversity.bsky.social Malaysia.

Great to hear journalists Al-Jazeera unpacking the trends in American media, including that they are reporting that bombing has stopped in Gaza. At least 20 people have been killed by bombing in Gaza today, so this is obviously deliberately/negligently inaccurate.

Anyone else got that grotesque Michael Froman email in their inboxes this morning?

Super excited to be delivering a course on the Pandemic Agreement: critical issues and negotiation tactics for the Executive Course on Global Health Diplomacy for the Catholic University of Guinea-Bissau.

Honoured to be asked by the venerable Magda Robalo, who I admire so much.

While the announcement of recognition of a State of Palestine by the UK is welcome, the assertions that Palestine demilitarise is not. Are only Western countries allowed to defend themselves against being genocided? The Israeli Occupation Forces themselves said that 200K have been killed.

What an absolute car crash. May we guard against such stupidity in all of our countries.

Ergh Gregg. This is disgusting. So sorry.

Absolute insanity.

Next generation TB tests return results much quicker and are easier to use. But complex regulatory systems may delay introduction. Our health systems lead Marguerite Massinga Loembé will be presenting the results from our critical path analysis project at The Union World Conference in Copenhagen. 👇🏽

Finally put my finger on something bothering me this week: the subtle reinforcement of the idea that it was brave and good for Americans to go to Vietnam and kill people. Imperial thinking is so pervasive and sinister. It will find a way to position Epstein survivors against Vietnamese villagers.

“We are no longer in the muzzle velocity stage of this presidency. We are in the authoritarian consolidation stage of this presidency.” Must-read 👇

@who.int calls for protection of public health excellence in the US CDC

At Vaccine, our editorial team is united to defend and support immunization and vaccine science around the world. I am so proud & honored to stand alongside these outstanding scientists & clinicians to prevent disease & save lives with integrity & courage.

It’s not just that there is no legality here. The Israeli state is at war with the very concept of legality. The idea that there is such a thing as a baseline, fundamental notions such as a human rights etc. - these are to be destroyed to reduce the cost of the genocide on Israel.

You would resist too if people came and just expected you to leave your home and give your home over for free, regardless of what religion they were. You would resist too if the people occupying those homes raped and killed your sisters and daughters. forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...

No. Nowhere in the world should you be able to level residential buildings, even if there is a terrorist inside. Not in New York, not in London, not in Kuala Lumpur, not in Palestine. And learn some history - Israel has been ethnically cleansing Palestine since 1948. This did not start on 7 October.

Why is it ok for Westerners to level entire residential buildings in Gaza?

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The rest of the world must work to reestablish lost expertise elsewhere. I spoke to Malaysian and Togolese academics this year about hiring American scientists even on short term to transfer technology. “No money”, both said. These are worthwhile investments.

In February this year I gave a talk at Uni of Maryland and I said that American health will get worse. As we see CDC directors resign and RFK continue to peddle dangerous information - everything we feared is materialising.