Global health
Melinda Gates to step down as co-chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
MELINDA French Gates said on Monday (May 13) she is stepping down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Why the world needs its own immune system
We should seize the moment right now to build a new set of protections against future public health crises
UK pledges £1b to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria
THE British government said on Monday (Nov 14) it would pledge £1 billion (S$1.6 billion) to the Global Fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria, more than six weeks after other countries made the...
A global genomic surveillance system to thwart pandemics
Tackling Covid-19, monkeypox and other diseases is critical. More surveillance and sequencing would help, says professor of medicine
Societies need to work together in the fight against obesity
Today is World Obesity Day and a day to share ideas on how to arrest that steadily growing waistline.
Making healthy life years part of the currency of growth
AS health has moved to the front page, the discussion is no longer just about the cost of care. It is about health as an investment. Healthy life years are the new currency of growth and prosperity. W...
