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Reflections on self-publishing [2021]: Year Two, Geneva Health Files

Twenty of our best from 2021

Political Dialogue Lifts TRIPS Waiver Talks, Geneva Trade Bureaucracy Undermines It

ACT-A 2022: WHO's "greater role"to deliver on the last mile for equity

Member states could consider paying more to support WHO, some remain unwilling

The race to reach missed deadlines: COVID-19 vaccination targets & the TRIPS Waiver

TRIPS Waiver fights to stay front and center at WTO; What lies ahead for countries post-WHASS

Podcast: The Story Of The TRIPS Waiver

The Push for Equity, Discriminatory Travel Bans Dominate WHO Special Assembly; Omicron Brings the TRIPS Waiver Into Focus

At WTO, Some Developing Countries: "No Waiver - No Walker"; Destination undecided, but countries divided over legal route for new WHO instrument

WHO's C-TAP Wins its First License; Walker Text at WTO Makes Limited Space for Pending TRIPS Waiver Decision; New: The Geneva Health Files Classifieds!

Is the 'Walker Process' at the WTO undermining the TRIPS Waiver?

The many shades of international cooperation in global health

The Emerging Path to the TRIPS Waiver

WHO's Commercial Determinants of Health and a nod to "transformative partnerships"

Round One to the EU & Friends: "Treaty" Option Gains Support

MSD's Pandemic Drug: The Big Moment for Voluntary Licensing; A Note on Editorial Positions

Pathogen-Sharing and the Access to Benefits: Theory And Practice

Global Health Governance Post-Pandemic: Forces of Fragmentation Meet Multilateralism

"Equity" Expands in Pandemic Treaty Discussions at WHO

The Looming "Treatment-Inequity" in COVID-19

Examining the “subtle shift” in the TRIPS Waiver talks

The ACT Accelerator Independent Review: A Missed Opportunity?

Review of International Health Regulations Makes Space in Treaty Talks; "Subtle Shift" in TRIPS Waiver Debate: WTO

The Dissonance Around a Pandemic Treaty; What the Damning Allegations in the DRC Mean for WHO; TRIPS Waiver Stalemate

A Replenishment Model for WHO; The Questions Guiding the Pandemic Treaty Talks

France's WHO Academy; The Slippery Slope of Global Health Geopolitics

A Meeting Among the Friends of the Pandemic Treaty; Gavi wants Countries to Resell Doses to COVAX

'Lift export bans' says Africa; 100 million doses set to expire: Airfinity

TRIPS Waiver opponents ring-fenced by growing support for proposal

Of Elections and Booster Campaigns

Introducing the Geneva Health Files Podcast

The politics of surplus production & vaccine scarcity

"The idea of pathogen sharing is based on power dynamics": Q&A with Senjuti Saha

Threats of sanctions from Berlin ahead of talks in Geneva might alter support for pandemic treaty

"Health is a strategic frontline target": Guest Essay by Mukesh Kapila on the Tigray Crisis

The U.S. hopes to reshape post-pandemic governance with a "Global Health Threats Fund"

COVID-19 & The Political Imperative for Health Security

Guest Essay: "Do We Really Need a Pandemic Treaty?"

Will the SARS-CoV-2 origins debate fuel pandemic treaty talks?

Understanding Germany’s Trenchant Opposition To the TRIPS Waiver

WHO raises pitch against booster doses and vaccine prices

Where does India truly stand on the TRIPS Waiver: Q&A with Murali Neelakantan

The many promises of the mRNA tech transfer hub in Africa

The Writing on the Wall? The EU Seeks to Steer Talks Away from the TRIPS Waiver Proposal

Guest Essay on Governing Health Emergencies: "The Exclusive Force of International Law Cannot be the Answer"

The Mechanics of the Tech Transfer Narrative during COVID-19

COVID-19 Lessons from UNICEF: Q&A with Gian Gandhi; CEPI's COVAX Marketplace

Exclusive: Confidential Communication on the TRIPS Waiver Shows the EU's Unwillingness to Negotiate

Countries to discuss the need for a pandemic treaty; WHO suggests "enlightened self-interest" to rich countries

Countries wrestle with regulatory data, trade secrets and tech transfer: TRIPS Waiver discussions at WTO

Vaccines falling through the cracks in the regulatory mosaic

The clock is ticking on securing WHO's finances; TRIPS Waiver update

TRIPS Talks: Interview with João Aguiar Machado, EU Ambassador to the WTO

A Moment of Reckoning for the COVAX Facility; EU's Tweaks to Compulsory Licensing at the WTO

South Africa bags first mRNA tech transfer hub; The EU's push for a declaration at the WTO

The importance of the scope of the TRIPS Waiver. Talks off to a tough start at WTO

Essay: The Economics of Health For All; Announcing the Geneva Health Files Summer Fellows

Stage set for TRIPS Talks: An intense summer of negotiations for Geneva

The demand for vaccine indemnity from countries & the terms of COVAX

An Editorial Update

#WHA74 WRAP: Pandemic Treaty Talks Eclipse Prevailing Vaccine Inequities

Pandemic Treaty Opponents Have Bought Time Till a Special Session of WHA in Nov, Supporters Manage to Keep Pressure On

Spanner in the works for a pandemic treaty: The U.S., Brazil & Russia Converge to Oppose EU plans at WHO, Discussions Continue

At Risk: COVAX Plans to Vaccinate 20% of the People in LMICs; Guest Essay: A Critique of The Independent Panel Report

Tied Funds To WHO, But Flexible Funds To Its Partners: Sustainable Financing Working Group Confronts Challenges

The dash for the pandemic treaty; Understanding the Oxygen crisis: Q&A: Robert Matiru, Unitaid

The WTO Becomes the Nerve Center for Pandemic Response

Variants of Concern & Variants of Interest: SARS-CoV-2

Countries divided on ways to reform WHO emergency preparedness

COVAX counts on dose-sharing to counter vaccine crunch, vaccine diplomacy makes it worse

"A hole in the firewall": The WHO Foundation & WHO; "Green shoots" for TRIPS Waiver Talks?

India: The Quagmire for COVAX; Q&A: Hyo Yoon Kang on the financialization of intellectual property & COVID-19

WHO & WTO converge on bilateral tech transfer for vaccines. What this means for the TRIPS Waiver

Make way for the COVAX Manufacturing Taskforce

WHO’s "Bretton Woods Moment" Dimmed by Member States’ Reluctance To Pay Up More

The cautionary tale of the COVAX Facility

Pathogens-Sharing & The Pandemic Treaty: The Commercial Link

Views from a vaccine manufacturer: Q&A - Abdul Muktadir, Incepta Pharmaceuticals; Pandemic Treaty Action

Examining the motivations for a pandemic treaty

Rich countries' stance on local production of vaccines: Smoke and mirrors

WHO donors seek a new tech transfer hub under ACT-A, C-TAP sidelined

AstraZeneca vaccine: a regulatory test; The new ACT-A strategy

Could Vaccine Nationalism Spur Disputes At The WTO; TRIPS Waiver Talks Update

The concerted push to address vaccine production shortages

The COVAX Allocation Algorithm for Vaccine Distribution

Vaccine Passports; Geneva Health Files goes paid!

"The Third Way": A key to unlock TRIPS Waiver negotiations?

Making Investigative Global Health Journalism Possible

Limits to vaccine diplomacy; TRIPS Waiver discussions deadlocked

Constraints facing the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP)

Geneva's trailblazing week: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala "fresh eyes" at WTO

The ACT-A Agenda: The financialization of a pandemic?

The race against virus variants

Reading the COVAX forecast; Cracks in the opposition to the TRIPS Waiver?

Brussels lessons for Geneva

COVAX & the question of liability: COVID-19 vaccines

Q&A: Germany's Björn Kümmel on WHO financing

A pandemic treaty: reforming global health security; TRIPS Waiver update at WTO

Vaccines & Virus Concerns at WHO Board; TRIPS Waiver talks at WTO

The Politics of Pathogens-Sharing

W.H.O. Executive Board Meeting: Curtain Raiser

Competing visions for W.H.O. reforms

Newsletter goes bi-weekly; Q&A: Dr Thomas Hale