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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 1h

Can’t wait! 🤩 📚

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 8h

I've for 40+ yrs had travelling privileges due to my nationality, with visa free travel to nearly all countries. Over the past year I've applied for more visas than in decades - now also to the UK. It feels cumbersome, but I remind myself this is nothing compared to what most people experience.

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 8h

Look forward to catching up next time - with better weather too :)

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 8h

Look forward to seeing many of you at #WHS2025. Perhaps also due to visa and funding challenges, the speaker and participant list appears to be shifting. I'll be keeping my eye on inclusive vs VIP-only spaces. The two rarely intersect.

World Health Summit @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social · 3d

Who is ready for #WHS2025?

⏳ Only 1 week to go until we open the doors to the World Health Summit 2025 in Berlin & online

👉 Register today and secure your spot: https://f.mtr.cool/siihxrdhyb

📅 October 12-14, 2025 | 📍 Berlin & Online

#GlobalHealth #HealthForAll

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve read several Arendt books and a biography before, but this book, written in the Trump 1 presidency, is blowing my mind 😱

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 19d

Sometimes it’s the little things is difficult times.
Thanks to my local bookstore, whenever I feel hopeless, I walk in and they’ve placed exactly what I need on their central tables and shelves. (Libraries are even better, unfortunately just not in Berlin 😢).

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 2d

What happens to women leaders between the glass ceiling and glass cliff? Book review of “Machtgebiete” (zones of power): katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/w...

Why you should read “Machtgebiete”: What happens between the glass ceiling and the glass cliff?

What happens when 50 top (women) managers (working in Germany) publicly share what really happens in zones of power (C-level and board rooms)?

katribertram.wordpress.com

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 5d

Important points, @kristofdecoster.bsky.social, while we “reimagine” in 17 parallel processes in the happy non-political abstract….

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 5d

Survey: The future of global health in the context of an evolving landscape and the Lusaka Agenda
www.surveymonkey.com/r/LX67VNF (via @ihpnetwork.bsky.social)

Survey on the future of global health

Kindly complete this 15 minute survey as part of the EU-led process on the Future of Global Health in the context of an evolving landscape and the Lusaka Agenda. The survey should take approximately 1...

www.surveymonkey.com

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 5d

Like. More of this and moving of some mountains - I’m in. 👇Read
www.politico.eu/sponsored-co...

Why global health needs change – an interview with John-Arne Røttingen

Visit the post for more.

www.politico.eu

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 6d

I read this book by Jane Goodall when everything in my work felt so bleak. It’s a lovely story about how all aspects of life (human 🐒 and nature) and livelihoods are connected. It didn’t make me more hopeful but it did inspire me and was important food for thought. RIP

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 7d

And hope that’s real transparency and not the standard PR “at least 1 billion” pharma and also often government (at least in Germany) keeps repeating…

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 7d

I have a strange habit of reading @economist.com from back to front (and sometimes back-middle, then front-middle). Only got to the opening and this today… It’s good, but sanitized: where is the human toll? Gaza is not just rubble, it’s also a mass gaveyard.

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 12d

After slow months, @bsky.app is really rocking it this week during #UNGA80, whereas LinkedIn has all the polished public PR. Thank you, community here who is speaking out and pushing back on the BS!

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 12d

Read the full thread. 👇 We need more focus on fair pricing and access to medicines. @wemos.org

Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 12d

A deal to allow generic versions of HIV-prevention shots in lower income countries is fabulous news. Just $40/year (vs $28K in the US)

Great news, but as usual, middle-income nations with high poverty & lots of HIV are left out.

By @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

www.nytimes.com

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 12d

Look forward to seeing you!

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 12d

It’s part of the autocracy 101 playbook, unfortunately. What starts with trans and then LGBTQI+ is quickly expanded to all women and girls. And the studies of eg Russia show that when autocracies go into war, this then includes rape and GBV as tactics of war.

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 12d

One of those 🤯-full #globalhealth weeks. 🙏 for having us covered. Some good momentum on many fronts, I like it.

International Health Policies (IHP) network @ihpnetwork.bsky.social · 12d

Check out this week's IHP news 847: #UNGA80 High-level week: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u...

Newsletter

www.internationalhealthpolicies.org

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve for some time considered writing more on astroturfing in #globalhealth. Purely hypothetically, of course 😉. What issues or questions do you think I should focus on? katribertram.wordpress.com/2022/09/16/a...

Astroturfing in global health – why this is a serious problem (for me)

Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organisation to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants. It has become a huge pr…

katribertram.wordpress.com

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 13d

Will try to be there!

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 13d

Don’t buy the celebratory releases coming out from UNGA. Privately, even the “optimists” are despairing. Perhaps for my the wrong reasons, though.
katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/h...

Heartbroken (about the lack of focus on impact)

Don’t buy the celebratory releases coming out from UNGA. Privately, even the “optimists” are despairing. Perhaps for my the wrong reasons, though.

katribertram.wordpress.com

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 13d

Bingo. Imagine having to write these releases to sell “successes” to deliver the demand for “optimism”.

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 13d

Well said

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 14d

What a much-needed hope-filled call to reimagine our future in this week's @desibility.bsky.social brief. Take a look and submit: www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/reim...

Ability to reimagine ourselves

An open call for science fiction, breathing together, and more from the mailbag

www.disabilitydebrief.org

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 14d

I'm joining online (past midnight!) and hugely looking forward to it!

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The Economist @economist.com · 14d

In authoritarian regimes, penalties for ridicule can include prison and exile. But whatever the fate of the comics, the jokes always get away. We explain why

First, they come for the comedians

But, try as strongmen might, the jokes always get away

econ.st

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