Marco Arop's family fled from the war in southern Sudan in the late 1990s when he was a toddler. They settled in Canada, and today Marco won a silver medal for Canada in the 800 metres.

The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on #mpox is convening today. Read more about the IHR Emergency Committee here:🔗bit.ly/3AoE3FO Read Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's opening remarks here: 🔗bit.ly/3X1v0TU

I saw my first one this summer on Devil Lake

To media folks everywhere, here is a partial list of African experts you can reach out to re the Mpox public health emergency in Africa: Jean Kaseya Christian T. Happi Tulio de Oliveira Shabir Madhi Marc Mendelson Ifedayo Adetifa Nadia Adjoa Sam-Agudu, MD, CTropMed BK Titanji Dr. Ayoade Alakija Dr Matshidiso Moeti

Does it matter how you measure financial protection? TLDR: yes This article compares SDG indicator 3.8.2 to the measure used by #WHOBarcelona WHO/Europe It finds the European measure to be more sensitive to equity and to changes in coverage policy sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

💸How Cost-Effective Is Global Health Aid? 📣Please check out our new paper! Center for Global Development Brian Webster Dr. Karen Grépin et al cgdev.org/blog/how-cost-… cgdev.org/publication/co…

State-backed carrier Turkish Airlines now serves more African destinations than any other non-African carrier /1 ft.com/content/614969…

Here at DKU, we are hiring a new tenure-track or tenured faculty member in Public Policy with a focus on technology and with expertise in computational social science, computational legal methods, or machine learning based research methodologies. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28168

Good thing you have big feet! 🤣

Horrific

Thank you! We are off to Sado next month and I have been digging through your posts of Sado and Niigata with excitement. Any thoughts where to stay/eat around the Echigo-Tsumari art field?

CAMBODIA🇰🇭 launched the "Roadmap towards Universal Health Coverage 2024-2035" in June. Now available in English on the P4H website, the roadmap outlines strategies to expand social health protection, enhance essential services, and reduce out-of-pocket expenses in 🇰🇭

However much this cost, it is going to be worth it.

Cool consulting gig alert: UNICEF Evaluation GIS Data Analyst One year, remote - basically leveraging GIS to enhance UNICEF evaluations around the 🌍 + boost capacity of evaluation staff Grad degree req, apply by Sept 9th👇🏾h/t Kerry Albright #econtwitter jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/5…

Mooncake boxes are the best

I've come out of an X hiatus for 1 reason - to let folks know where to learn more about studying Health Policy! On 9/19 at noon eastern, we'll hold a virtual info session for Harvard University health policy PhD. Register below. The video will be posted. Please share widely!

In 2021, David Lametti won the Verdun-Emard-Lasalle riding with about 43% of the votes. Last night the Liberal candidate only got about 27% of the votes and lost to the Bloc candidate. This is a drop of about 16% in popular support. Very bad for the Liberals and Justin Trudeau.

Tropical storm to make landfall in central Vietnam late Thursday reut.rs/3ZulQkL