Partnership builder talking public health, emergencies, diplomacy, risk comms, community, health workers | WHO worker | humanitarian, ❤️🐕, hiker | my opinions
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17 Dec 2025
#kindnesstravels NOT @British_Airways @BA_USA
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You KNOW I will miss LHR-JFK connection b/c 2h delay
I was 2 h early after timeliness lectures
BUT when lounge cust service called you still refused to proactively rebook *because I already checked in*
Will be back of Q in LHR👎
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17 Dec 2025
#AirlineFail @British_Airways #GrinchAirline @BA_USA
Delays leaving GVA=28 min
Delays arriving LHR=26 min
My flight GVA-LHR=1h52 min
BA refuses connection rebooking until I stand in LHR line
I arrived 2 h before flight
Yesterday's lectures flight pkg cancelation for 3min delay??
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1 May 2025
Speaking of which, are you joining us for the State of the World's Nursing Report 2025 on 12 May?
Register now, before we run out of space!
More info at who.int/news-room/events/det…
@DrCareyMcCarthy
1 May 2025
Happy International Workers’ Day #MayDay everyone. Preparing today for release of next State of the Worlds Nursing report with WHO CNO and Workforce Director Amelia and Jim on 12 May #IND2025
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1 May 2025
From #MayDay2025 to #InternationalNursesDay to #WHA78, your health workforce team is planning, working together and advocating for 🌏health & care workers
Today @JimCHRH, @WHO Chief Nursing Officer & @HowardCatton @ICNurses honed in on data decent work #ProtectInvestTogether
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29 Apr 2025
Should kids just “get the disease” instead of being vaccinated?
Can vaccines really overwhelm a child’s immune system?
Who decides what vaccines we get—and why?
Get the facts on @WHO #Sciencein5 Dr Kate O'Brien
#ScienceNotScare
lnk.to/science-in-5
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21 Apr 2025
Requiescat in pace @Pontifex
"The church—those that appointed him-wanted a change. they wanted a change from the periphery. Perhaps what some did not predict is that when somebody starts to see the world from the viewpoint of the poorest, he undergoes a profound transformation”
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26 Feb 2025
Health workers are #NotATarget
Palestinian NGO Healthcare Workers Watch: 162 medical staff remain in Israeli detention, inc some of Gaza’s most senior physicians. 24 missing after being taken from hospitals during the conflict
#ProtectInvestTogether
theguardian.com/global-devel…
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26 Feb 2025
“Health workers, facilities they work in, and patients they care for … must never be targets. In fact, under international humanitarian law, they should be actively protected.” @WHO @DrTedros #NotATarget #ProtectInvestTogether #GenevaConventions
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18 Jan 2025
Important advice recommendations for health workers in caring for patients who may be immigrants
Author has well-iterated policy ethics issues
"Doctors and Nurses Should Get Ready for Mass Deportations" nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opini…
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6 Jan 2025
We can be anxious about #AI esp in areas as critical as #Health
@washingtonpost #oped explains-w data-AI's potential to support #healthworkers with better tools more⏱️to
✅interact w patients
✅explain the science
✅think through unusual/unexpected issues
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Catherine Kane retweeted
28 Dec 2024
Thank God @DrTedros is safe but if the WHO DGs safety can’t be assured what hope for health workers and patients. International Humanitarian Law isn’t working for those whose lives depend on it. Concerningly still waiting on news of the #nurses involved.
27 Dec 2024
This morning’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has put this last major health facility in North #Gaza out of service. Initial reports indicate that some key departments were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid.
60 health workers and 25 patients in critical condition, including those on ventilators, reportedly remain in the hospital. The patients in moderate to severe condition were forced to evacuate to the destroyed and non-functional Indonesian Hospital. WHO is deeply concerned for their safety.
This raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital comes after escalating restrictions on access for WHO and partners, and repeated attacks on or near the facility since early October. Such hostilities and the raids are undoing all our efforts and support to keep the facility minimal functional.
The systematic dismantling of the health system in Gaza is a death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians in need of health care.
This horror must end and health care must be protected. Ceasefire!
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19 Dec 2024
Mystery disease in remote🇨🇬is severe malaria
Malaria still kills ~600,000 people/year🌍
✅12% of deaths are in DRC, where it is a leading killer
😢most of 143 deaths are👶under 5
They need trained, supplied #iccm health workers new #vaccine 🚰 sanitation theguardian.com/world/2024/d…
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9 Dec 2024
TOMORROW | Join the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics and @WHO for “Are Health and Care Workers Protected?”
Discover findings from the first global study of health worker legal protections across 180 countries, plus new tools to drive progress on the Global Health and Care Worker Compact. Register: oneill.law.georgetown.edu/ev…
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10 Dec 2024
Human Rights Day! #StandUp4HumanRights #HealthForAll
We're launching the new @PLOS paper on how countries safeguard & protect health & care workers
⭐️@oneillinstitute
⭐️@GawandeUSAID
⭐️@WitsUniversity Rispel
⭐️@PSIglobalunion Roque
⭐️@JimC_HRH @WHO
Join! georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/r…
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3 Dec 2024
Are we doing enough to protect health & care workers?
@PLOS paper says more needed to align national policy w Global Health & Care Worker Compact
Excited to moderate a 10 DEC panel with @JimC_HRH @GawandeUSAID @WitsUniversity @PSIglobalunion
REGISTER at who.int/news-room/events/det…
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19 Nov 2024
#mpox @who Technical advisory group gives new vaccine emergency use listing; part of comprehensive containment strategy
✅improved testing & diagnosis
✅treatment & care
✅IPC
✅community engagement & education
Health workers must be trained to administer
cdn.who.int/media/docs/defau…
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14 Nov 2024
♀️health workers on #Marburg virus response 🇷🇼 call for
✅PPE designed for♀️
✅♀️focused drug, Vx data
✅♀️leadership
✅investment in IPC, emergency systems
➕welcome renewed mental care focus
Must read⬇️@LancetGH @DrTsion #ProtectInvestTogether
thelancet.com/journals/langl…
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Catherine Kane retweeted
29 Oct 2024
3/4 of unpaid care work is performed by women, which limits their career opportunities and earnings.
On the #DayOfCare, we must commit to change the way care is organised, to fairly reward the critical work women do in health and care.
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15 Oct 2024
Nice story illustration of a #systemsapproach to health ✅community health worker #ASHA
🔗expectant mother information via digital app
🔗preventive visit for anemia
🔗supervisor follow-up
=healthy🤱 👶 #KhushiBaby
devex.shorthandstories.com/h…
#communityhealth #immunization #equity
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10 Oct 2024
Ready for Health & Care Workforce 2025?
@WHO Health Workforce team & Dr Aylward pre-brief Member States for #WHA78
#migration reporting trends on WHO Global Code of Practice
#data #decentwork #jobs #nurses #midwives #CHWs
Data➡️Dialogue➡️Decision-making
#InvestinHealthWorkers
ALT WHO Assistant Director General Dr Bruce Aylward and Health Workforce Director Jim Campbell brief Member States on health and care workforce agenda for World Health Assembly 78, Executive Board
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