As one gets high, the views are beautiful and one fells more alive. Happy end of the weekend everyone!

Afternoon autumn and cycling in the mountains

So happy to be back in South Africa! Recently voted one of the 10 most beautiful countries to visit in the world... #SouthAfrica #visit #beautiful

An historic milestone towards #HealthForAll people in #SouthAfrica .

Thank you my brother, President Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦, for your leadership.

This is fantastic to see the WHO acknowledging Mtb on a list of AMR pathogens

A biomedical hero and one of our nation’s most important physician-scientists, congratulations Eric Topol Scripps Research

An updated framework for SARS-CoV-2 variants reflects the big jump of evolution in many of the Omicron lineages (BA.1-BA.5) that was early described in SA and how that set an unpredictable future evolution landscape 🔽 nature.com/articles/s4159…

It will be very import to determine if the Mpox case in South Africa is associated with the new Clade 1b Mpox outbreak in DRC. Updates are NICD website. nicd.ac.za/mpox-updates/

an exceptional publication

So exciting to see the first major publication of Dr Gifford within our institute! A must read 👇

Proud of the article at Sunday times about our team, zen and mental health approach to deal with serious epidmric response. timeslive.co.za/amp/sunday-tim…

Wow, summer is arriving in the northern part of the world. Amazing day hiking on top of cliffs in Sweden...

We have a new preprint out on dengue importation risk modelling in Africa. Please check it out! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

'I could not feel greater despair over the future.' theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Major flood at Salgado Filho Airport due to extreme rainfall in Porto Alegre of Rio Grande do Sul, #Brazil 🇧🇷 (06.05.2024)

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One of the worst floods of the history of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Climate change is affecting everyone, everywhere.

Thank you Alisson Becker for sharing your call for solidarity and support for all those impacted by the devastating #BrazilFloods in your home state of Rio Grande do Sul.

World Health Organization (WHO), OPAS/OMS Brasil and PAHO/WHO are committed to working with partners in 🇧🇷 to protect and promote the

Is this the new normal in an era of climate crisis?

Devastating floods in Brazil

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Closing the Novo Nordisk Foundation Science Summit 2024! Science, technology, dual burden of infectious and NCD’s and climate change and pollution as common frame. An important network has been created. Happy to be here with my World Health Organization (WHO)’s colleagues Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Jeremy Farrar Bente Mikkelsen