Health Policy Watch

All passengers were evacuated from the cruise ship, Hondius, by Monday night – and a Spaniard taken to a military hospital in Madrid to quarantine has become the 11th person from the ship to test positive for hantavirus. The evacuation was completed 10 days after the World Health Organization (WHO) was notified about the outbreak […]

Recently, I met with African nursing leaders who told me stories of nurses in countries such as Ghana and Nigeria earning the equivalent of only a few hundred US dollars a month – sometimes less than $300 – while being offered opportunities abroad with salaries many times higher. They described a growing crisis, where nurses […]

As the campaign to elect a new World Health Organization Director-General officially opens, a timeline and guidelines for the process have been published by outgoing DG Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for consideration by member states at next week’s World Health Assembly and the upcoming Executive Board. While these aim to promote a transparent and level […]

Hantavirus has been confirmed in a French citizen evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship on Sunday, while two tests on a  US citizen turned up one “weakly positive” and one negative result – but it is still unclear how the virus is being transmitted. The evacuation of passengers from the ship, now docked in […]

A dramatically shrinking World Health Organization has seen a slight decline in overall gender parity amidst restructuring. However, strict recruitment policies and targeted job cuts have actively boosted female representation within the organisation’s professional ranks. At the same time, deep regional disparities in gender representation remain unresolved, with men holdi...