A New Approach to Global Health The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need to revisit the holistic global health concept. This process should be inspired by a new conceptualization of global health, methodically combining strands that so far have been looked at in isolation. An article for the German Council on Foreign Relations by Mathias…
Impulse für Globale Gesundheit aus Wuhan, China In Chinas Metropole Wuhan, die als Ausgangspunkt der COVID-19-Pandemie gilt, fand vom 25. bis 31. Oktober 2020 die 15. Internationale Genomik-Konferenz statt (ICG-15). Unter dem Motto „OMICS for ALL“ lautet das Thema in diesem Jahr „Omics and Global Health“. Die vielfache Symbolik des Ortes wurde entsprechend breit gewürdigt:…
An insight into the impact of COVID-19 in Peru Declared as the second hotspot in the Americas after Brazil, Peru is battling to control the COVID-19 pandemic which has already led to almost 200.000 confirmed cases and more than 5.000 deaths. The government of President Vizcarra had responded rapidly by closing international borders and implementing…
COVID-19 in Venezuela: the least of the worries. The current pandemic is affecting the global economy and will drastically change the way people behave from now on, from individual to international perspectives. Through the last four months, diverse socio-economic, and health actions implemented by governments worldwide had shown their results, and some of those countries…
Planning for tomorrow and the world we want by Mathias Bonk, IGGB Chairman & Co-Founder According to the Indian writer Arundhati Roy “The pandemic is a portal” and a “gateway between one world and the next”. Her recent article in the Financial Times (full text available here, to be read, free of charge) is based…
AN INSIGHT INTO COVID-19 IN GHANA by Seth Kofi Abrokwa, May 7, 2020 As at when this article was written (7 May 2020), 3091 cases of COVID-19 have been reported with 303 recoveries and 18 related deaths in Ghana. Following the confirmation of the first two cases on 12 March 2020, and as confirmed cases…
OD: Moin Mathias, die Berliner Zoos haben wieder aufgemacht. Wie frisch geschlüpfte Küken, staksen wir aus der Abgeschlossenheit und tasten uns halb blind an das heran was wieder geht: für Bildung und Freude am Leben. Die Zooleitung fährt auf Sicht und verläßt sich auf verantwortungsbewußte Gäste. Ein starkes Symbol! MB: Das ist eine gute Entwicklung.…
Wie wollen wir sein? Orientierung durch COVID-19 In den letzten Wochen wurden die maßgeblichen Anweisungen zum Umgang mit COVID-19 von Funktionsträgern und ihren Experten verfügt. Was zu kurz gekommen ist, sind Modelle, wie die oft widersprüchlichen oder undeutlichen Vorgaben in sinnvolle Praxis umgesetzt werden sollen. Jetzt kommt es darauf an, glaubwürdige, verständliche, „gute“ Orientierung zu…
SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Observations from Australia by Clint Rodgers, Melbourne, Australia In a world that not long ago appeared to be on a relentless trajectory towards globalisation, harmonisation and integration, the response to SARS CoV-2 in many respects exceeds even the most unanticipated political and economic shifts preceding its outbreak. A pandemic of this scale presents…
COVID-19 is the „biggest threat to peace and security“, says Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealnd and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. She’s calling on the UN Security Council and the G20 to lend its weight to the global response – and it’s paying off. Watch Part 1 of her interview…