Editor-in-chief, Health Policy Watch
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🗨️Organisations and Members that have cooperated on the #Aid4Trade initiative have made a huge difference in peoples' lives, said @NOIweala while launching a new WTO publication 📗entitled "Strengthening Africa's Capacity to trade" at the plenary session of the Stocktacking Event
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Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
9 Oct 2019
"Our present headache: a superhighway system jammed with people fleeing not from disaster but from the very city that is supposed to offer all the benefits that make life desirable."
—Lewis Mumford, 1968
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Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
10 Oct 2019
Truly innovative! 👏👏👏
Traditional wind turbines are sometimes noisy and disturbiing landscapes. Welcome to the wind tree!
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10 Oct 2019
Wow!
India 🇮🇳 now produces the cheapest solar power in the world.
Prices fell 27% last year! 👏👏👏
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4 Apr 2019
📣 A new research by @IHME_UW published in @TheLancet calls for a global shift in policy to promote #HealthyDiets. According to the study, unhealthy diets are responsible for more preventable deaths than smoking #tobacco: hubs.ly/H0hhvcS0 #NCDs #EnoughNCDs #BeatNCDs #CDoH
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Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
24 Feb 2019
Some people are aghast that we‘ve connected dots between environmental, econ, social, racial justice in the #GreenNewDeal.
Despite Flint, Standing Rock, Puerto Rico, Katrina, & WV, people desperately want us blind to the injustices of frontline communities.
Here’s another ⬇️
23 Feb 2019
Paper & plastics that half of Philly thinks it’s sending for recycling is actually getting burned at a plant next door in Chester, Pa., likely sickening its impoverished African American residents theguardian.com/cities/2019/…
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22 Feb 2019
I truly believe if cancer had been cured under Obama’s administration, the Republicans would’ve found a way to bring it back.
20 Feb 2019
The EPA has approved dumping bee-killing pesticides across 16 million acres of land
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22 Feb 2019
Wise words from the mouth of the future.
16 Sep 2018
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Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
4 Nov 2018
My open letter to Mayors.
who.int/phe/news/Open-letter…
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Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
4 Nov 2018
To achieve #HealthForAll we must serve the vulnerable and leave no one behind. That includes ensuring clean air for everyone, everywhere. WHO is committed to working towards reducing #AirPollution deaths by 2/3 by 2030. It’s time to #BreatheLife.
x.com/antonioguterres/status…
3 Nov 2018
More than 90% of the 7 million deaths caused by air pollution each year are in low and middle-income countries. This week's @WHO Conference on Air Pollution & Health has raised ambition and commitment to address this silent killer.
bit.ly/2KtjvNK
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Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
17 Sep 2018
These are the biggest world's killers:
-Cancer
-Diabetes
-Lung disease
-Heart Disease
-Stroke
#AirPollution is the second largest enabler to these killers.
Let's STOP it.
Let's #BreatheLife!
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Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
15 Aug 2018
Decisive action by Accra! Making life better now and in the future.
15 Aug 2018
Excellent news! The city of Accra, #Ghana, is the first African city to join the #BreatheLife network of cities around the world that are fighting air pollution. This will help protect health and save lives. Congratulations, and thank you for your leadership @MayorAdjeiSowah!
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Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
15 Aug 2018
Great news from Accra, Ghana - the first African city to join #BreatheLife campaign!
Congratulations Mayor of Accra for taking action to make health impact of #AirPollution visible and preventable.
breathelife2030.org/news/acc…
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15 Aug 2018
Accra, Ghana Mayor, the honourable Mohammed Sowah, announces Accra as the first major African city to join the #BreatheLife campaign @WHO @CCACoalition
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15 Aug 2018
#Breathelife - Accra - Drama illustrates risk of air pollution in story about a woman whose child dies from pneumonia induced by cookstove smoke -at Accra #BreatheLife event in the presence of honorable Accra Mayor Mohammed Sowah
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15 Aug 2018
Very excited to welcome Accra Ghana to the #BreatheLife campaign - first major city in Africa to join
Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
8 Aug 2018
“Evidence shows that urban green space has health benefits, particularly for economically deprived communities, children, pregnant women and senior citizens," says #WHO
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Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
15 Jul 2018
A day at the beach or the lake has been used for the health benefits for centuries. I love the water. x.com/ecosystemhealth/status…
14 Jul 2018
Nature Nurtures Health 🍃
New Review & meta-analysis > 140 studies & 20 countries
Health benefits Incl. ⬇ blood pressure, type II diabetes, stroke, all-cause & cardiovascular mortality & specc.ie/2N2XDJR
Study: bit.ly/2zBmiDt
#nature #biodiversity #health
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Elaine Ruth Fletcher retweeted
4 Jul 2018
"...cities must learn that they cannot become sustainable by building roads. They must embrace public transport and not cars." theguardian.com/cities/2018/…
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