The Global Health Paradox
Habib Benzian, Fidel Strub, Leenu Maimanuku, Bulela Vava, Ikenna Ebiri-OkoroSlow, reflective writing on the tensions and contradictions that shape global health and the systems behind it.
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Geneva Rules (2): What Geneva Knows
© Geneva Graduate Institute The WHO Archives at the Geneva Graduate Institute conserve more than three linear kilometres of documents.
This essay is part of Geneva Rules, a series from The Global Health Paradox on what the World Hea...
Geneva Rules (1): Seeing the World Health Assembly Differently
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When I began The Global Health Paradox, I made a promise. This would not become another place running in the daily news cycle. That was not because events do not matter. They do. But global health already generates...
Complexity and Consolation
Has global health found its most persuasive explanation yet for why it cannot deliver?
In a recent OpEd, Ilona Kickbusch and Vinh-Kim Nguyen draw on the three-body problem in physics - a formally defined phenomenon in which three interacti...
Bullshit Bingo
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Global health policy language has become fluent, even elegant. Declarations read smoothly. Commitments sound earnest. The vocabulary is familiar enough that seasoned readers can anticipate entire paragraphs before r...
The Islands Where the Future Arrives Early
The Palau Pledge | Photo ©H. Benzian
This essay is written together with guest author , a renowned public health advocate and leader in oral health in Fiji and across the Pacific. She has served on the faculty of the Fiji National Universi...
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Global health researcher and adviser working across science, systems, equity, governance, and implementation, with experience in ministries, universities, and global agencies.
TIME100 Health Honoree. Founder, Fidel Strub Forum & ETHOS FIDELIS. Applying watchmaker precision to global health. Occasional forensic insights on Noma, the architecture of dignity, and survivor-led intelligence.
Leenu Maimanuku writes on health, equity, and Pacific life. With 30+ years in dental education, research, and care, she’s led teams, programs, worked with communities, and advocates to improve access to oral health and amplify Pacific voices.
Bulela Vava is a South African public oral health practitioner, oral health advocate, and systems thinker. He is the founder of the Public Oral Health Forum and an Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa based at Tekano.
Ikenna Ebiri Okoro has a sharp eye for policy gaps and a commitment to the principle of leaving no one behind. He pushes for reforms that center lived experience and human rights.
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