Thursday, February 11 Live program begins at 12 noon EST Join via Zoom Click here to RSVP Those who RSVP will receive a reminder to join shortly before the program begins. You are invited to the global launch event of the Lancet Commission on publicpolicy and health in the Trump era. The Lancet Commission on public policy and health inContinue reading “Public Policy and Health in the Trump era”
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Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp, member of the Turkish Medical Association, is arrested!
Dr. Gökalp is an elected member of High Disciplinary Committee of Turkish Medical Association 2020-2022. He was an elected member of Central Council of Turkish Medical Association during 2014-2018. Dr. Gökalp is a very well known physician. On 20th of November he was taken into custody from his home where he lives with her wifeContinue reading “Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp, member of the Turkish Medical Association, is arrested!”
Α Vicente Navarro’ s lecture on US elections
Vicente Navarro, Professor of Public and Social Policy at The John Hopkins University, gave recently a lecture on November 2020 election in the United States of America, exposing the class roots of the actual polarization.
Urgent Call for Action on Covid-19 technologies. Statement by People’s Health Movement
The People’s Health Movement supports the call by the Governments of India and South Africa for the World Trade Organization to waive certain provisions of the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement so as to enable countries to scale up the manufacture of promising vaccine candidates, medicines and diagnostics. PHM calls upon members and friends, country circles, regionalContinue reading “Urgent Call for Action on Covid-19 technologies. Statement by People’s Health Movement”
PHM’ s webinar: Resisting Militarisation of the Covid19 response
PHM’ s thematic Group on “War and Conflict, Occupation and Forced Migration and Health” is starting up its programmes with a webinar on Resisting Militarisation of the Covid19 response August 25 // 1 p.m GMT (9:00 p.m Manila / 6:30 p.m Delhi / 4:00 p.m Beirut/ 10:00 a.m Rio) Please Register Here: https://bit.ly/2CHYT5p Speakers: Michael LimContinue reading “PHM’ s webinar: Resisting Militarisation of the Covid19 response”
A letter from prison from prof. Imad Barghouthi
Imad Barghouthi, the prominent Palestinian astrophysicist arrested by Israeli authorities last month, remains in arbitrary detention at the Ofer Israeli prison camp. A petition demanding his liberation has reached more than 1500 signatories, many of which distinguished scholars around the world. We publish here a letter addressed to the international scientific community that prof. Barghouthi wrote from prison.
IAHPE’s statement on the persecution of Prof. Kayıhan Pala for questioning the management of the COVID19 crisis in Turkey
Since the COVID19 outbreak and the spread of the pandemic, various aspects concerning the preparedness of public health systems and the management of the crisis by governments of many countries have been placed under scrutiny. Following a decade of austerity policies, commercialization and privatization, impoverished public health systems have proved incapable of providing trustworthy publicContinue reading “IAHPE’s statement on the persecution of Prof. Kayıhan Pala for questioning the management of the COVID19 crisis in Turkey”
Open Letter in Support of Dr. Bülent Şık, Sentenced to Prison for Publicizing Threats to Public Health
[you can submit your signature here] February 18, 2020 As academics, scientists, and advocates of human rights and environmental justice, we strongly condemn the sentencing of Dr. Bülent Şık to 15 months in prison. Dr. Şık is a food engineer and expert in measuring toxic residues in food such as pesticides, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and heavyContinue reading “Open Letter in Support of Dr. Bülent Şık, Sentenced to Prison for Publicizing Threats to Public Health”
The Latin American Association of Social Medicine and Collective Health condemns the attempted coup in progress in El Salvador
On Sunday, February 9 in the afternoon, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, broke into the Congress building accompanied by members of the Armed Forces and the National Civil Police. They entered armed with assault rifles, with the explicit purpose of intimidating the Congress, forcing them to approve a loan for 109 million dollars,Continue reading “The Latin American Association of Social Medicine and Collective Health condemns the attempted coup in progress in El Salvador”
International Association of Health Policy 