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VIEWPOINT,  Vol 28/1, 2026, pp. 51-53 PDF Joseph J. Amon Before its leadership and staff were gutted, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided technical assistance and disaster epidemiology training to state and local public…

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,  Vol 28/1, 2026, pp. 55-58 PDF Allan Maleche, Sharifah Sekalala, and Timothy Wafula On December 4, 2025, Kenya and the United States signed a health cooperation framework aimed at “guiding collaboration to eliminate HIV, malaria, TB,…

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…

INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN MENTAL HEALTH, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 259-271 PDF Camila Gianella Malca Abstract In the last 15 years, coalitions of individuals and institutions worldwide have been calling for global policies to close…

 INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN MENTAL HEALTH, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 243-257 PDF Alberto Vásquez Encalada Abstract Peru’s mental health system remains marked by chronic underinvestment, fragmentation, and weak regulation, leaving…