Gorik Ooms
gorikooms.bsky.social
Gorik Ooms
@gorikooms.bsky.social
Human rights law; global health law
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“In a partnership on equal footing, one side cannot decide to reduce a previously agreed contribution by 25% or 50%. A cooperation should be more reliable than a donor–recipient relationship,” says @gorikooms.bsky.social, health-policy researcher at ITM.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The US and Europe have cut billions in health aid — can anyone fill the gap?
It's time to radically reimagine global health, leaders tell World Health Summit in Berlin.
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Wondering when we're going to "sunset" Ryanair, Exxon Mobil, Amazon and all the rest of them. #WHS2025 #GHreform
October 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Surely one of the more annoying things here at #WHS2025 is the ubiquitous use of the term "innovative financing" by many, when they mean "common sense taxation", even of the prudent kind, at least when considering we live in a world of massive inequality.
October 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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“This crisis is an opportunity for reform.”
– John-Arne Røttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust
October 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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🎥💻 We’re live now

#WHS2025 has officially started.

🌐 Know someone passionate about global health? Share this post and invite them to join the #WHS2025 conversation. 

👉 All livestream links are available on our website: https://f.mtr.cool/pcehexgjrn

#GlobalHealth #HealthForAll
October 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Er, do they all talk at the same time and answer the question they wanted you to ask rather than the one you actually asked?
OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’
OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.
nbcnews.to
August 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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The @ALLEA_academies Board has published a statement expressing its deep respect and full support for the public statement issued by Professor David Harel on July 14th 2025. #Gaza #health #aid

allea.org/portfolio-it...
Statement of the Board of ALLEA in Alignment with the Stance of Prof. David Harel, President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
allea.org
August 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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As governments pull back from global aid, rethinking Global Health is urgent. Thanks to @gorikooms.bsky.social for calling for real multilateralism and pragmatism. Reforming Global Health is a shared responsibility. #GlobalHealth #Multilateralism #HealthEquity
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?
journals.plos.org
May 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do

Six key actions countries can take – and should have taken a long time ago – if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid

@themrise.bsky.social

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do
Six key actions countries can take – and should have taken a long time ago – if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
May 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Nice metaphor!
@nschwalbe.bsky.social the work on the #PandemicAccord is like a triathlon: we've almost finished the swim (treaty negotiations), but then we still have the bike ride (PABS negotiation), and the run (ratification and implementation).
#WHA78
May 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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This is Lydia Nabirye. A Ugandan, she was a mother and dreamed of becoming a nurse. She also lived with HIV w/support from a U.S.-funded program. The Trump administration eliminated the program in January. Lydia died two months later: forsaken.life/orals/lydia-...
@unaids.org @asia-ilse.bsky.social
Lydia Nabirye - FORSAKEN
I told her there's still time for everything. It's a long life. I told her she would not be neglected.
forsaken.life
May 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Rebuild TB programs with less precarious financial & governance structures #tbsky www.itg.be/en/health-st...
International health threat response
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria should step up efforts
www.itg.be
May 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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🇪🇺The 2025 EU #GHPF25 is taking place today, organised by the @ec.europa.eu in Brussels.

📝We will be present alongside many other civil society organisations to ask important questions regarding accountability and share key recommendations for the future of this strategy.

See you there!
May 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
While discussing 'the' 'new' global health architecture at #GHPF25
May 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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NEW Opinion from @gorikooms.bsky.social et al:

Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?
journals.plos.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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I think most people have a hard time believing that the USAID/PEPFAR cuts are as bad as they are bc it's impossible to stomach that policymakers would knowingly kill millions. But this is what is happening.

PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills
HIV medications were supposed to be exempt from U.S. aid cuts. In Zambia, for example, those on the ground say otherwise.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Immunization for all is humanly possible, but often practically impossible for millions of forcibly #displaced people. We need more research&resources: if #Health is a human #right, immunization should not leave anyone behind
#WorldImmunizationWeek
@salehaljadeeah.bsky.social @itmantwerp.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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🚨NEW ARTICLE @thediplomat.com: Seismic political shifts in the West means that we need a long term South-South roadmap. Written by 6 experts from each region of the Global South, we contemplate the decline of the West and propose next steps. @munira.bsky.social Read: thediplomat.com/2025/03/a-ro...
A Roadmap for South-South Cooperation
Greater Global South solidarity is the only viable solution in the face of the seismic political shifts in the West.
thediplomat.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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‘De rapporten van het VN-Klimaatpanel worden met de jaren alarmerender, terwijl hun politieke impact paradoxaal genoeg lijkt af te nemen.’ Opinie van milieuwetenschapper Aaron Van Poucke.
‘De klimaatcrisis is meer dan ooit een politieke keuze’ – MO*
Milieuwetenschapper roept op om de urgentie van de klimaatcrisis écht te erkennen en er doortastend naar te handelen.
buff.ly
January 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Developing countries in Asia would be much better advised to follow Thailand's truly universal health model than India's system that selectively provides insurance against inpatient hospital care: www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...
Thailand's 30-baht healthcare plan in final roll out
The fourth and final phase of the so-called "treatment anywhere" 30-baht universal healthcare scheme will kick off in the last 31 provinces of the country on Jan 1, as the nation adopts more digital...
www.bangkokpost.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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It really is time Kenya abandoned insurance models and followed Thailand's tax financed route to UHC eastleighvoice.co.ke/universal%20...
Confusion and concerns persist as Kenyans struggle with new social health insurance scheme
While the government has maintained that SHIF is functioning effectively, many Kenyans are still frustrated and eager for the system's issues to be addressed.
eastleighvoice.co.ke
January 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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