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News to 30 January 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now A public health response to ICE violence  Health and Human Rights editor-in-chief Joseph J. Amon is calling on the public health community to adopt a disaster…

News to 24 January 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now United States leaves WHO without paying bills On Thursday, 22 January, as the United States exited the World Health Organization (WHO) the US State Department announced it would…

VIEWPOINT, January 28 2026 Joseph J. Amon Before its leadership and staff were gutted, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention provided technical assistance and disaster epidemiology training to state and local public health…

News to 17 January 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now United States withdraws from 66 international organizations President Trump has announced plans to withdraw the United States from 66 international organizations, including the…

Week ending 20 December 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Director’s departure attracts global protest The Dean of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health has announced that the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health…

Guilia Bosi In 2025, for the first time, global rates of obesity among school-age children and adolescents exceeded those of underweight children, establishing it as the predominant form of malnutrition, as noted in the UNICEF Child Nutrition Report…

Zazie Huml On November 13, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a revised funding notice for the Continuum of Care program—the central federal mechanism for financing permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and the…

Week ending 6 December 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Gaza ceasefire at risk as Israel continues to violate peace UN experts, including Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, condemned Israel’s…

VIEWPOINT, 17 December 2025 Allan Maleche, Sharifah Sekalala, and Timothy Wafula On 4 December 2025, Kenya and the United States signed a health cooperation framework aimed at “guiding collaboration to eliminate HIV, malaria, TB, and other…

INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN MENTAL HEALTH, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 273-284 PDF Sasha Stevenson Abstract In mid-2015, the Gauteng Department of Health in South Africa canceled a contract with Life Esidimeni, a subsidiary of a large…