Fabian Moser
@fabianmoser.bsky.social
Policy Adviser • Medical Doctor • MPA in Innovation and Public Value. Views my own, reposts no endorsements.
Opinion: Global health can't run on charity — now is the time for reform www.devex.com/news/opinion... by @jarottingen.bsky.social
Opinion: Global health can't run on charity — now is the time for reform
As head of one of the world's largest health science philanthropies, we're supporting brave reimagining of the global health ecosystem.
www.devex.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Opinion: Global health can't run on charity — now is the time for reform www.devex.com/news/opinion... by @jarottingen.bsky.social
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Next IHP issue: Friday 13 June.
Check out this week's IHP news 833: On Mo Ibrahim, Tedros & Bill in Africa www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u...
Newsletter
www.internationalhealthpolicies.org
June 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Next IHP issue: Friday 13 June.
Insightful comment taking stock of "Governance and structure of national public health agencies: a critical foundation for strengthening public health security" gh.bmj.com/content/10/5... By @who.int @rki.de
@alliancehpsr.bsky.social @AfricaCDC, @IANPHI
et al.
@alliancehpsr.bsky.social @AfricaCDC, @IANPHI
et al.
Governance and structure of national public health agencies: a critical foundation for strengthening public health security
National Public Health Agencies (NPHAs) play a critical role in national, regional and global health security. NPHAs are national-level, science-based organisations that promote health by coordinating...
gh.bmj.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Insightful comment taking stock of "Governance and structure of national public health agencies: a critical foundation for strengthening public health security" gh.bmj.com/content/10/5... By @who.int @rki.de
@alliancehpsr.bsky.social @AfricaCDC, @IANPHI
et al.
@alliancehpsr.bsky.social @AfricaCDC, @IANPHI
et al.
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Reposted by Fabian Moser
42nd meeting of the WHO Programme, Budget and Administration Committee has started today.
@drtedros.who.int opening remarks: bit.ly/3S0vNkX
@drtedros.who.int opening remarks: bit.ly/3S0vNkX
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the 42nd meeting of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board – 14 May 2025
bit.ly
May 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
42nd meeting of the WHO Programme, Budget and Administration Committee has started today.
@drtedros.who.int opening remarks: bit.ly/3S0vNkX
@drtedros.who.int opening remarks: bit.ly/3S0vNkX
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🚨Hiring!
I’m recruiting two new Policy Advisers to join my team
💷 £61,400
⏰ 7 May
It’s an exciting time to join this growing and evolving team working on UK and global science policy
wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco...
I’m recruiting two new Policy Advisers to join my team
💷 £61,400
⏰ 7 May
It’s an exciting time to join this growing and evolving team working on UK and global science policy
wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco...
Policy Adviser
Salary: £ 61,400 Closing date: Wednesday, 7 May 2025 Contract type: Permanent The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy a...
wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
🚨Hiring!
I’m recruiting two new Policy Advisers to join my team
💷 £61,400
⏰ 7 May
It’s an exciting time to join this growing and evolving team working on UK and global science policy
wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco...
I’m recruiting two new Policy Advisers to join my team
💷 £61,400
⏰ 7 May
It’s an exciting time to join this growing and evolving team working on UK and global science policy
wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco...
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Why are 20 years of advocating for sustainable, integrated systems being cast aside in favor of old-school vertical "do one thing" programs?
Reform, fine—but not at the cost of everything we’ve learned.
The “good old days” of vertical programs weren’t actually good.
www.cgdev.org/blog/radical...
Reform, fine—but not at the cost of everything we’ve learned.
The “good old days” of vertical programs weren’t actually good.
www.cgdev.org/blog/radical...
Radical Simplification: A Practical Way to Get More Out of Limited Foreign Assistance Budgets
With major cuts to foreign assistance announced or anticipated in the US, the UK, and across the EU, and in the World Bank’s subsidized lending program, we must urgently work to get the most out of sh...
www.cgdev.org
April 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Why are 20 years of advocating for sustainable, integrated systems being cast aside in favor of old-school vertical "do one thing" programs?
Reform, fine—but not at the cost of everything we’ve learned.
The “good old days” of vertical programs weren’t actually good.
www.cgdev.org/blog/radical...
Reform, fine—but not at the cost of everything we’ve learned.
The “good old days” of vertical programs weren’t actually good.
www.cgdev.org/blog/radical...
New @who.int rapid survey in 108 country offices: Magnitude of service disruptions due to current health ODA cuts is 3/4 of disruption level at COVID-19 peak.
News story: www.who.int/news/item/10...
Slide deck with details: cdn.who.int/media/docs/d...
News story: www.who.int/news/item/10...
Slide deck with details: cdn.who.int/media/docs/d...
Countries are already experiencing significant health system disruptions – WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) issues warning on health service disruptions reported in 70% of its surveyed country offices as a result of sudden suspensions and reductions in official developmen...
www.who.int
April 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
New @who.int rapid survey in 108 country offices: Magnitude of service disruptions due to current health ODA cuts is 3/4 of disruption level at COVID-19 peak.
News story: www.who.int/news/item/10...
Slide deck with details: cdn.who.int/media/docs/d...
News story: www.who.int/news/item/10...
Slide deck with details: cdn.who.int/media/docs/d...
"African leaders, under Africa CDC stewardship, are advancing a comprehensive three-pillar strategy centered on domestic resource mobilization, innovative financing, and blended finance" to counter financing crisis: africacdc.org/download/afr...
Also @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social: t.co/gJylyLXQL3
Also @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social: t.co/gJylyLXQL3
Africa’s Health Financing in a New Era - April, 2025 – Africa CDC
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Africa’s health sector is facing an unprecedented financing crisis, driven by a sharp decline of 70% in Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 2021 to 2025 and deep-rooted struct...
africacdc.org
April 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"African leaders, under Africa CDC stewardship, are advancing a comprehensive three-pillar strategy centered on domestic resource mobilization, innovative financing, and blended finance" to counter financing crisis: africacdc.org/download/afr...
Also @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social: t.co/gJylyLXQL3
Also @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social: t.co/gJylyLXQL3
Excellent piece that grounds frequent discussions and hopes on #blendedfinance for global health in much needed empirical analysis.
New article about #blendedfinance in #globalhealth. Prof. McNeill and I ask whether private finance can fill globalhealth funding gaps, looking at #IFFIm, #AMCs and #matchingfunds. Unfortunately, it's not looking too good... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Blended finance to the rescue? Subsidies, vaccine bonds and matching funds in global health
To close persistent global health financing gaps, policymakers have in recent years promoted the idea of ‘blended finance’, i.e. the strategic use of public funds to attract additional private sect...
www.tandfonline.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Excellent piece that grounds frequent discussions and hopes on #blendedfinance for global health in much needed empirical analysis.
“Health stakeholders need to speak more with stakeholders in the financial systems” highlights Magda Robalo
while underlining the urgency of reforms across the global health architecture in powerful plenary at #AHAIC2025 chaired by Mercy Mwangangi.
while underlining the urgency of reforms across the global health architecture in powerful plenary at #AHAIC2025 chaired by Mercy Mwangangi.
March 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
“Health stakeholders need to speak more with stakeholders in the financial systems” highlights Magda Robalo
while underlining the urgency of reforms across the global health architecture in powerful plenary at #AHAIC2025 chaired by Mercy Mwangangi.
while underlining the urgency of reforms across the global health architecture in powerful plenary at #AHAIC2025 chaired by Mercy Mwangangi.
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Attending the #AHAIC2025 conference in Kigali next week,?
Join us for a session exploring how countries are working with partners to implement the #LusakaAgenda and accelerate progress towards #UHC.
You can also register for free to join online: ahaic2025.eventify.io/t2/tickets
Join us for a session exploring how countries are working with partners to implement the #LusakaAgenda and accelerate progress towards #UHC.
You can also register for free to join online: ahaic2025.eventify.io/t2/tickets
February 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Attending the #AHAIC2025 conference in Kigali next week,?
Join us for a session exploring how countries are working with partners to implement the #LusakaAgenda and accelerate progress towards #UHC.
You can also register for free to join online: ahaic2025.eventify.io/t2/tickets
Join us for a session exploring how countries are working with partners to implement the #LusakaAgenda and accelerate progress towards #UHC.
You can also register for free to join online: ahaic2025.eventify.io/t2/tickets
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❗️Applications are open for our 2025/26 MPA in Innovation, Public Policy & Public Value.
We are introducing new pathways for our MPA:
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3️⃣Digital Transformation
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We are introducing new pathways for our MPA:
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February 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
❗️Applications are open for our 2025/26 MPA in Innovation, Public Policy & Public Value.
We are introducing new pathways for our MPA:
1️⃣Public Administration
2️⃣Economic Policy and Political Economy
3️⃣Digital Transformation
🔗Learn more and apply here: https://buff.ly/3YZBkve
We are introducing new pathways for our MPA:
1️⃣Public Administration
2️⃣Economic Policy and Political Economy
3️⃣Digital Transformation
🔗Learn more and apply here: https://buff.ly/3YZBkve
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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...
National Academies is altering pending reports to appease Trump administration, some members say
Words such as “health equity” are being replacing with vaguer terms, and 100 members sent a letter of protest to NASEM leaders.
www.statnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...
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“It is ridiculous that a continent of 1.3 billion people is reliant on the whims of one man many kilometres away; on his signature on a single document” @ckyobutungi.bsky.social
theconversation.com/healthcare-i...
theconversation.com/healthcare-i...
Healthcare in Africa on brink of crisis as US exits WHO and USAid freezes funds: health scholar explains why
US withdrawal from the WHO and of all foreign aid will have dire consequences for Africa. It’s time the continent took responsibility for its own people.
theconversation.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“It is ridiculous that a continent of 1.3 billion people is reliant on the whims of one man many kilometres away; on his signature on a single document” @ckyobutungi.bsky.social
theconversation.com/healthcare-i...
theconversation.com/healthcare-i...
"If we ignore politics, it eats health for breakfast."
Important reflections by @katribertram.bsky.social on global #healthfinancing event.
One practical tool used to analyze national and global health politics from @harvardchanschool.bsky.social Prof Reich: michaelrreich.com/policymaker-...
Important reflections by @katribertram.bsky.social on global #healthfinancing event.
One practical tool used to analyze national and global health politics from @harvardchanschool.bsky.social Prof Reich: michaelrreich.com/policymaker-...
My personal reflections - and where I felt I had to speak up - from the German Federal Economic Cooperation and Development Ministry's high-level dialogue on #healthfinancing katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/t...
Three take-aways beyond the official high-level dialogue summaries: The Case for Investing in Health – NOW
My personal reflections – and where I felt I had to speak up – from the German Federal Economic Cooperation and Development’s high-level dialogue that I moderated.
katribertram.wordpress.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"If we ignore politics, it eats health for breakfast."
Important reflections by @katribertram.bsky.social on global #healthfinancing event.
One practical tool used to analyze national and global health politics from @harvardchanschool.bsky.social Prof Reich: michaelrreich.com/policymaker-...
Important reflections by @katribertram.bsky.social on global #healthfinancing event.
One practical tool used to analyze national and global health politics from @harvardchanschool.bsky.social Prof Reich: michaelrreich.com/policymaker-...
African leaders convene on establishment of the Africa Credit Rating Agency
"The establishment of an Africa Credit Rating Agency aims to provide fair, transparent and development-focused credit ratings that reflect the realities and potential of African economies."
au.int/en/pressrele...
"The establishment of an Africa Credit Rating Agency aims to provide fair, transparent and development-focused credit ratings that reflect the realities and potential of African economies."
au.int/en/pressrele...
African leaders convene on establishment of homegrown solution, the Africa Credit Rating Agency. | African Union
au.int
February 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
African leaders convene on establishment of the Africa Credit Rating Agency
"The establishment of an Africa Credit Rating Agency aims to provide fair, transparent and development-focused credit ratings that reflect the realities and potential of African economies."
au.int/en/pressrele...
"The establishment of an Africa Credit Rating Agency aims to provide fair, transparent and development-focused credit ratings that reflect the realities and potential of African economies."
au.int/en/pressrele...
Thanks @benphillips76.bsky.social for this clear call. While hope may not be sufficient, it is certainly necessary.
NEW on our blog, by guest contributor @benphillips76.bsky.social
We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how we’ll win
speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/13/w...
We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how we’ll win
speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/13/w...
We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how we’ll win
As we reel from the attack on humanity, rage is not wrong. We all feel the icy chill of the current moment. Even as the cold dark night bites, however, all who work for justice need to remember that w...
speakingofmedicine.plos.org
February 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Thanks @benphillips76.bsky.social for this clear call. While hope may not be sufficient, it is certainly necessary.
"One response to the current challenges global health institutions face would be to double down on the PPP model: to trumpet its successes and downplay the more difficult questions in a desperate attempt to keep the money rolling in. Falling into this replenishment trap, however, would be a mistake"
"Partnership is essential for solving complex global challenges."
A Viewpoint highlights the challenges with Public-Private Partnerships in global health and proposes a shift to drive a transformative post-2030 health agenda: tinyurl.com/2fjh6rbd
A Viewpoint highlights the challenges with Public-Private Partnerships in global health and proposes a shift to drive a transformative post-2030 health agenda: tinyurl.com/2fjh6rbd
Global health partnerships for a post-2030 agenda
Partnership is essential for solving complex global challenges. In global health,
however, partnership has become associated with a specific model: public–private partnerships
(PPPs), in which the key...
tinyurl.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"One response to the current challenges global health institutions face would be to double down on the PPP model: to trumpet its successes and downplay the more difficult questions in a desperate attempt to keep the money rolling in. Falling into this replenishment trap, however, would be a mistake"
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I keep updating this. 👋 to everyone new joining. #globalhealth
Good to see more #globalhealth colleagues join and reactivate Bluesky. I keep a public list of whom I‘ve found and follow, in case helpful to find more of us here: bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I keep updating this. 👋 to everyone new joining. #globalhealth
Strong focus in interventions on #PHC as key vehicle towards #UHC akin to the top priority of the #G20 Health Working Group. Several countries in the room highlight the importance of the #LusakaAgenda, strengthening health financing. #EB156 @who.int
February 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
@who.int budget discussions highlight below heatmap and discrepancies in WHO financing levels by major office/region. Alongside: Calls by several MS for strong alignment of resources with country needs and priorities over next financing period #EB156
See report: apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf...
See report: apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf...
February 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
@who.int budget discussions highlight below heatmap and discrepancies in WHO financing levels by major office/region. Alongside: Calls by several MS for strong alignment of resources with country needs and priorities over next financing period #EB156
See report: apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf...
See report: apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf...
As @who.int Executive Board meeting begins, the Budget Committee proposes "to reflect the current financial and economic constraints by decreasing the base
segment (...) of the budget 2026–27 to
$ 4.9 billion while safeguarding and prioritizing core functions, accountability, and
country capacities"
segment (...) of the budget 2026–27 to
$ 4.9 billion while safeguarding and prioritizing core functions, accountability, and
country capacities"
[EXCLUSIVE] WHO Member States Clash Over Proposals to Slash Budget in Light of Financing Crunch @who.int
Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #250 [The Files In-Depth]
genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/who-member...
Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #250 [The Files In-Depth]
genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/who-member...
February 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
As @who.int Executive Board meeting begins, the Budget Committee proposes "to reflect the current financial and economic constraints by decreasing the base
segment (...) of the budget 2026–27 to
$ 4.9 billion while safeguarding and prioritizing core functions, accountability, and
country capacities"
segment (...) of the budget 2026–27 to
$ 4.9 billion while safeguarding and prioritizing core functions, accountability, and
country capacities"