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In this blog post, I explore the implications of UN Convention on Biological Diversity Decision 16/2 establishing the #CaliFund for database managers and companies. I examine the need for legal harmonization, including through potential linkages with the #PandemicAgreement.

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🌎 The @unbiodiversity.bsky.social's #CBD Decision 16/2 sets new rules for sharing benefits from the use of #DSI, requiring company contributions to the #CaliFund. Legal uncertainties on the #PandemicAgreement highlight the need for legal harmonization. 📰 Read @adamstrobe.bsky.social's blogpost ⤵️

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It is often assumed that international law provides an absolute prohibition on attacks on healthcare facilities in war. It does not. But it should. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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"How events will play out is hard to judge, [...] because the WHO’s operations are more complex than its critics often realize. "For Trump, WHO is an international bureaucracy in Geneva [...] But it’s actually incredibly complicated.” Professor Kickbusch 👉 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @who.int

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❓ Missed our event with @gchalliance.bsky.social and @who.int last Thursday at @gvagrad.bsky.social on #ClimateAction & #Health? 📺 Watch the recording here ⤵️

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Read about the panel on "Health at the Heart of Climate Action", hosted last Thursday by the Institute's Global Health Centre (@gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social) at the Maison de la paix 👇 #GlobalHealth @who.int

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Bolstered by strong support from @who.int member states, there are high hopes that an ambitious new Global Action Plan on #Climate Change and Health will be approved at #WHA78. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social @worldfoodprogramme.bsky.social #COP30

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📢 Nouvelle publication de l'Initiative Governing Pandemics : « Le transfert de technologie en pratique : quels enjeux pour les négociations de l’Accord sur les pandémies » 🔍 Analyses d'experts sur le transfert de technologie 📌 À lire ici 👉https://bit.ly/3QssxxN

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The GEN is at @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social event on how to keep #health central to the global climate action, reflecting on actionable steps for @who.int's upcoming Global Plan of Action on #ClimateChange & Health & #COP29 Coalition for Climate & Health. ▶️ www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

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🔴#LIVENOW - panel discussion on #climatechange & #health, happening now at the @GVAGrad and online. Join us here 👉 iheid.webex.com/iheid/j.php?...

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🗓️ Mark your calendars! Join the launch of the 2025 edition of the #GenevaPolicyOutlook on Tuesday 4 March at 18:30 CET at @gvagrad.bsky.social! 🗣️ With the participation of our Academic Adviser Prof. Gian Luca Burci. Details and registrations ⤵️

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The Institute is pleased to invite you to the launch event of the 2025 edition of the Geneva Policy Outlook: Reinventing Geneva as a Global Hub: Seizing a moment for change 👉 shorturl.at/Jd48p In partnership with the Republic and State of Geneva, the City of Geneva and the Fondation pour Genève.

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⌛️Last chance to register!! Join us together with @who.int & @gchalliance.bsky.social this Thursday 20 Feb. at 12:30 CET, in person at @gvagrad.bsky.social or online, to discuss #climateaction and #health! REGISTER HERE 👉 bit.ly/C-Hevent25 @drmarianeira.bsky.social @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social

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AHDC Winter Colloquium 2025 📅 February 24 | 1:30 – 3:00 PM More info: rb.gy/v3sh8g @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social @gvagrad-hcgs.bsky.social @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social @gvagrad-research.bsky.social @gvagrad-law.bsky.social

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New on ML&P: A guest blog by Suerie Moon of the Geneva Graduate Institute, synthesising expert opinion on Securing technology transfer in the Pandemic Agreement. Read it here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/02/synt...

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On 27 Nov., together with @oecd-ocde.bsky.social we organised a #HighLevel Meeting at @gvagrad.bsky.social's Villa Barton on the theme "Financing Global Public Goods for #Health: #Pandemic Preparedness and Beyond" 🌐 Read the report now available here ➡️ repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/319926

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#ClimateChange has been identified by @who.int as a 🔝 #globalhealth priority. 🗓️ Join us on 20 Feb. at @gvagrad.bsky.social & online, together with partners @gchalliance.bsky.social and #WHO, for an expert panel discussion on the need for decisive action! Register now 👉 bit.ly/C-Hevent25

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📢 New publication: Technology Transfer in Practice: Implications for #PandemicAgreement Negotiations. 🔍Insights from experts on IP sharing & capacity building, barriers & enablers and previous experiences. 📌Read here 👉 bit.ly/42Lm7kF

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"with BRICS countries stepping up and reaping the economic benefits of their health investments in poorer countries [...] they are also filling the political vacuum that the U.S. leaves and will set the global health agenda" Prof. Ilona Kickbusch, Chair of @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social shorturl.at/5nrqt

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"Personne n’est très surpris, on s’attendait à une attaque de l’administration Trump contre l’OMS, mais la rapidité et la brutalité avec lesquelles ils l’ont mise en œuvre sont très choquantes, souligne Suerie Moon" codirectrice du Centre de santé globale @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social shorturl.at/hX97g

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"A big chunk of U.S. funding to WHO is actually channeled to sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East [...] — cuts in these funds will curtail essential WHO support to countries that bear some of the heaviest burdens of disease worldwide." Prof. Suerie Moon @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social shorturl.at/5nrqt

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🎧 Listen to our Academic Advisor Prof. Gian Luca Burci in the @gvagrad.bsky.social #podcast What Matters Today, discussing #Trump 's decision of withdrawing the U.S.🇺🇸 from #WHO @who.int ⤵️

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🎥 Missed our webinar on the implications of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's decision on Digital Sequence Information for the Pandemic Agreement? 🔗 Watch the recording here 👉 lnkd.in/e7QuRAVd #CBD #DSI #PABS #GSD

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🎥 Missed our webinar on the CBD DSI decision? 📺 You can now watch the full recording on our YouTube channel! 🔗 Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oib3... #Biodiversity #PublicHealth #DSI #PandemicAgreement

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📰 Read our Co-Director Suerie Moon's interview for @kffhealthnews.bsky.social by @amymaxmen.bsky.social ⬇️

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"The U.S. cannot wall itself off from transnational health threats” latest piece by the extremely awesome @amymaxmen.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-w...

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In this Snapshot, I discuss the implications of #CBD COP decision on Digital Sequence Information for #PandemicAgreement. I argue the decision marks a new beginning for #DSI regulation, highlighting the need to establish a #PABS system addressing legal clarity and equity from health perspective.

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📢 The 5th issue of our Governing Pandemics Snapshot is out! 🗞️ Read updates on the #PandemicAgreement (PA) negotiations, implications of the CBD COP decision on #DSI and analysis on the synergies/ differences between the #IHR and the PA. Read now 👉 bit.ly/GP_snapshot

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"Donor-directed or "specified" contributions — where the giver dictates how and where the money is used — account for more than 70% of the total budget. [...] The US gets quite a bit in terms of return for relatively little money." analyses Visiting Professor Gian Luca Burci. shorturl.at/3nZhx

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"Le retrait américain de l’OMS n’est pas la seule mauvaise nouvelle" Trump a annoncé le retrait états-unien de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé. Suerie Moon, la codirectrice du Global Health Centre au Graduate Institute, en analyse les implications. 👇 www.letemps.ch/monde/suerie...

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Professor Vinh-Kim Nguyen from @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social is a physician, medical anthropologist & global health expert. 🩺🌐 In this interview, he explains why investing in health promotion programmes in the Global South is essential not only for the local population but also for global health. 🌍 💉

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"Voices skeptical of WHO are also proliferating within the European Union, [...] and might be emboldened to reduce funding if the U.S. leaves." Prof. Ilona Kickbush of @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social on the possible impacts on the U.S. and the world of Trump leaving the WHO. www.science.org/content/arti...

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📰 Read Prof. Gian Luca Burci's interview for @news.dw.com, Senior Visiting Professor of the @gvagrad-law.bsky.social Dept. and our Centre's Academic Advisor ⬇️

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🌿 What does biodiversity have to do with public health? 🗓️ Join us Jan 23 for a webinar exploring the UN CBD COP decision on #DSI & its links to the #PandemicAgreement negotiations. 💻 Register now: bit.ly/40owJV1

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🚨🗞️NEW article out! The #NBM team just published in #JoPPP: "Reforming the innovation system to deliver affordable #medicines: a conceptual framework of pharmaceutical innovation as a complex adaptive system (forest) and theory of change" Read now in open access ➡️ bit.ly/3CiKUls

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👋🏻 We're new here! The Global Health Centre (GHC) team, from @gvagrad.bsky.social, is happy to be part of the @bsky.app community and ready to share exciting news about our research🗞️, education📚 & convening🌐 activities on #GlobalHealth power, politics & governance! Stay tuned & follow us for more! 🔝

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