Katri Bertram
@katribertram.bsky.social
Transforming global health and social impact. Private account & views.
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This too is likely to get messy. We can’t have the best of both worlds: You can’t sunset and chronically defund and expect to have functioning, effective institutions… 1/2
The working group will issue an interim report in June 2026, with final recommendations due by late October — a compromise between calls for a June decision and concerns about moving too quickly.
UNAIDS board launches new process for transition amid sunset calls
UNAIDS board launches new process for transition amid sunset calls
www.devex.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This too is likely to get messy. We can’t have the best of both worlds: You can’t sunset and chronically defund and expect to have functioning, effective institutions… 1/2
Important #transparency and also member state #accountability required here, as these are all political posts. This type of shifting (not cutting) costs, and what I’ve heard is also happening - rehiring staff who were fired as cost-cutting - can only backfire on WHO. 1/2
As departments are abolished, some former @who.int directors remain in near-equivalent roles — raising❓❓about whether cost-cutting will be enough.
📉 WHO plans to cut around 25% of its global workforce by mid-2026, yet there is a $1.05bn funding gap for 2026–27.
@drtedros.who.int @un.org
📖⬇️ & 🙏
📉 WHO plans to cut around 25% of its global workforce by mid-2026, yet there is a $1.05bn funding gap for 2026–27.
@drtedros.who.int @un.org
📖⬇️ & 🙏
Two More WHO Officials Cut From Senior Leadership Team Move Into Other Roles - Health Policy Watch
Two more senior WHO officials, Bruce Aylward and Ailan Li, who were among those dropped from WHO’s Senior Leadership Team during the first phase of an Agency
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December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Important #transparency and also member state #accountability required here, as these are all political posts. This type of shifting (not cutting) costs, and what I’ve heard is also happening - rehiring staff who were fired as cost-cutting - can only backfire on WHO. 1/2
Welcome to the life of a multilingual person (me). My plea for more tolerance and less othering (stop correcting grammar and listen to what I am saying!)
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Grammar eats content for breakfast
Did you listen to what I was saying? Or are you just waiting for me to make a grammatical mistake? Welcome to my multilingual life. I grew up with three languages: my mother tongue (Finnish), my la…
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December 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Welcome to the life of a multilingual person (me). My plea for more tolerance and less othering (stop correcting grammar and listen to what I am saying!)
katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/g...
katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/g...
“The tobacco industry has expressed concerns that the Commission’s report may be biased if it relies on WHO studies” 🤯🤮
EXCLUSIVE: EU health chief 100% convinced new products as harmful as cigarettes
EXCLUSIVE: EU health chief 100% convinced new products as harmful as cigarettes
The tobacco industry is 'very difficult to please – because the direction of policy is not going their way,' Várhelyi says
dlvr.it
December 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“The tobacco industry has expressed concerns that the Commission’s report may be biased if it relies on WHO studies” 🤯🤮
Re-upping this as gender-affirming care and counseling bans are likely to be extended: katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/d... #HumanRights #Dehumanization
Don’t let anyone or any place define who you are
Identity politics or politicking will never define who you are. The Little I-am-me, by Mira Lobe Masculine energy, only two genders… We’ve over just a few days again heard who is tolerated, who cel…
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December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Re-upping this as gender-affirming care and counseling bans are likely to be extended: katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/d... #HumanRights #Dehumanization
Welcome to the 2020s, dear “optimists”. #GlobalHealth would be in a better place in 2025 if the “we cheer ourselves along” would have opened their eyes to the world earlier.
December 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Welcome to the 2020s, dear “optimists”. #GlobalHealth would be in a better place in 2025 if the “we cheer ourselves along” would have opened their eyes to the world earlier.
Reposted by Katri Bertram
At @devex.com we have a content series analyzing the future of global health. Check out our coverage here: www.devex.com/focus/global...
The Future of Global Health
Decades of progress in global health were built on the backbone of foreign aid. But as that funding erodes, so too does the stability of the system it supported. In this Devex series, we delve into th...
www.devex.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
At @devex.com we have a content series analyzing the future of global health. Check out our coverage here: www.devex.com/focus/global...
Sing along 🎶
Hello, government, my old friend
I've (as the car lobby) come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of climate disaster 🤯
Hello, government, my old friend
I've (as the car lobby) come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of climate disaster 🤯
The European Union’s 2035 ban on gasoline-powered cars is dead.
Its killer: Germany.
Its killer: Germany.
How Germany tore down a giant pillar of EU climate policy
A last-minute deal in Berlin ensured the death of the combustion engine ban — a previously unthinkable outcome.
www.politico.eu
December 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Sing along 🎶
Hello, government, my old friend
I've (as the car lobby) come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of climate disaster 🤯
Hello, government, my old friend
I've (as the car lobby) come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of climate disaster 🤯
What a mess (also the clear message from anyone speaking from inside WHO). 🙄
December 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
What a mess (also the clear message from anyone speaking from inside WHO). 🙄
🔥 🔥 🔥 A time of monsters (act 1: misery). “Betting on our apathy.” 👇
My first Reith Lecture is now out in video form: A Time of Monsters.
On moral decay, elite cowardice, and why we need a moral revolution. Watch here 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...
(With one tiny edit at 4:28, for those who notice such things 😉)
On moral decay, elite cowardice, and why we need a moral revolution. Watch here 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...
(With one tiny edit at 4:28, for those who notice such things 😉)
Are we living through the fall of civilisation? | The Reith Lectures 2025
YouTube video by BBC Sounds
youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🔥 🔥 🔥 A time of monsters (act 1: misery). “Betting on our apathy.” 👇
Please stop incessant reposting of your own posts. If it’s to up your algorithm game, it’s simply not interesting for the rest of us.. 😑
December 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Please stop incessant reposting of your own posts. If it’s to up your algorithm game, it’s simply not interesting for the rest of us.. 😑
As I begin my job transition, a few reflections on why transitions happen: the personal, the organizational, and what a colleague of mine recently called "ejection seat positions": katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/e...
Ejection seat positions
Why transitions happen: Is it me, is it the organization, or is it the (ejection seat) role?
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December 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
As I begin my job transition, a few reflections on why transitions happen: the personal, the organizational, and what a colleague of mine recently called "ejection seat positions": katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/e...
In between some UHC posting, I’m enjoying a day off and half-way through 👇 Haven’t laughed so hard in a while - she’s so, so brilliant.
2025 is a gift of memoirs (to myself). Just finishing Arundhati Roy and next up… 🤩 📚
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In between some UHC posting, I’m enjoying a day off and half-way through 👇 Haven’t laughed so hard in a while - she’s so, so brilliant.
Reposted by Katri Bertram
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
I hereby sunset the term “reimagine”…
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as ONE (…instead of the fragmented hundred reimagining processes and groups by now)
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as ONE (…instead of the fragmented hundred reimagining processes and groups by now)
💡Global leaders have announced the Future of Development Cooperation Coalition—an independent effort to reimagine how countries collaborate for sustainable development. Co-hosted by the African Center for Economic Transformation and CGD.
Explore the coalition⬇️🌍
devcoalition.org
Explore the coalition⬇️🌍
devcoalition.org
Future of Development Cooperation Coalition
Building a bold, shared vision for the future of development cooperation
devcoalition.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I hereby sunset the term “reimagine”…
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as ONE (…instead of the fragmented hundred reimagining processes and groups by now)
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as ONE (…instead of the fragmented hundred reimagining processes and groups by now)
Johan Rockström has for years been saying on climate what needs to be said. No BS celebration, no twisting of press release headlines.
Who in #globalhealth shows such leadership? (Rhetorical question 🤥)
Who in #globalhealth shows such leadership? (Rhetorical question 🤥)
“We must, at least so far, admit failure”
Ten years after the #ParisAgreement, which aims to keep #GlobalHeating well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C: here are the comments from PIK Directors Johan #Rockström and Ottmar #Edenhofer
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www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Ten years after the #ParisAgreement, which aims to keep #GlobalHeating well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C: here are the comments from PIK Directors Johan #Rockström and Ottmar #Edenhofer
⬇️
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
December 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Johan Rockström has for years been saying on climate what needs to be said. No BS celebration, no twisting of press release headlines.
Who in #globalhealth shows such leadership? (Rhetorical question 🤥)
Who in #globalhealth shows such leadership? (Rhetorical question 🤥)
As always, an excellent overview and analysis (incl 🎯 comments) on everything going on (and not yet going on) in #globalhealth
Check out this week's IHP news 858: The coin is increasingly melting www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u... (also with AI summary, and translations in French, Spanish & Portuguese). #UHCday
Newsletter
www.internationalhealthpolicies.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
As always, an excellent overview and analysis (incl 🎯 comments) on everything going on (and not yet going on) in #globalhealth
Reposted by Katri Bertram
Global health architecture reform must be anchored in UHC www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art... Feat article by @arushlal.bsky.social & @katribertram.bsky.social #UHCDay
Global health architecture reform must be anchored in UHC
As a new UHC Knowledge Hub is launched in Japan ahead of international UHC Day, global health reform initiatives should align behind UHC as a country-led, sustainable global health model if they want ...
www.internationalhealthpolicies.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Global health architecture reform must be anchored in UHC www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art... Feat article by @arushlal.bsky.social & @katribertram.bsky.social #UHCDay
This felt like the right book to end 2025 with
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This felt like the right book to end 2025 with
The continued rise of the far-right. What are we doing about this? (Silence. Absolutely nothing. Business as usual.)
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The continued rise of the far-right. What are we doing about this? (Silence. Absolutely nothing. Business as usual.)
Ahead of #UniversalHealthCoverage #UHCDay tomorrow (12 Dec), welcome all annual fragmented social media posts and op-eds stating "without support for my issue Y, no UHC". When can we finally flip this to "With support for UHC, issue Y too"? 🙄
December 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Ahead of #UniversalHealthCoverage #UHCDay tomorrow (12 Dec), welcome all annual fragmented social media posts and op-eds stating "without support for my issue Y, no UHC". When can we finally flip this to "With support for UHC, issue Y too"? 🙄
This looks like something I need to read (and have been struggling with my entire non-NGO career!) 👇
If You’re So Ethical, Why Are You So Highly Paid? is ideal for anyone who wishes to understand and tackle business’s role in the growing social inequality of advanced economies in an informed, fair and feasible way.
Available now via #OpenAccess: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress/eth
Available now via #OpenAccess: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress/eth
December 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This looks like something I need to read (and have been struggling with my entire non-NGO career!) 👇
For me this applies to any #globalhealth organization, government, foundation, private company or NGO out there 👇
(More to follow tomorrow on what that collective goal should be…).
(More to follow tomorrow on what that collective goal should be…).
@katribertram.bsky.social and I discuss a key criterion for the next Director-General of WHO: accountability for results. 👇🏻
Watch our full conversation on leadership in global health at singerp.substack.com
Watch our full conversation on leadership in global health at singerp.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
For me this applies to any #globalhealth organization, government, foundation, private company or NGO out there 👇
(More to follow tomorrow on what that collective goal should be…).
(More to follow tomorrow on what that collective goal should be…).
Don’t know how things are on X for #globalhealth (I haven’t checked since I left end 2023), but @bsky.app is my bubble of hope. Honest, courageous sharing and caring. Now how to turn that into change…?
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Don’t know how things are on X for #globalhealth (I haven’t checked since I left end 2023), but @bsky.app is my bubble of hope. Honest, courageous sharing and caring. Now how to turn that into change…?