Great discussions with Philippines 🇵🇭 Health Secretary Dr Herbosa and #WHA78 President on advancing global and national efforts to tackle violence against children. Excellent collaboration between health and social services is key.

Great report by Tanya Mohn on joint letter initiated by GlobalNCAP warning about risk of negative impact of tariff disputes on automotive safety regulations. Levelling up to global standards UNECE is best way to promote fair trade in safer automobiles: forbes.com/sites/tanyamoh…

#CYCLING in a nutshell 🚲 0.0% #emission 100% #emotion Good morning #BikeFriends 💚🚴🏼💛🚴🏼‍♀️🧡🚴🏼‍♂️ 🫶🏽

🙏 🙏 Kenya 🇰🇪 and Costa Rica 🇨🇷 as well as Colombia 🇨🇴 Thailand 🇹🇭 and Finland 🇫🇮 for your leadership and a great side event this morning discussing the public health impact of corporal punishment on children’s health. 68 countries have already passed a ban. Who will be next?

Powerful discussion to raise awareness at our #WHA78 side event on "Corporal punishment of children: A global public health concern" together with the Governments of Kenya, Thailand, Finland and Colombia. The message is clear: It's time to #EndCorporalPunishment

Strong messages on the need to act on social determinants of health equity today at #WHA78 by an amazing lineup of speakers! Thanks richard horton for dynamic moderation & Helen Clark Sudhvir Singh & colleagues

Great discussion at #WHA78 on the health impact of loneliness and the importance of fostering social connection, with Morocco 🇲🇦 Minister of Health HE Amine Tehraoui.

New paper supports calls from 2023 Bridgetown Declaration to address economic and #commercialdeterminants in Small Island Developing States tinyurl.com/35wcpcys #WHA78

Happening now: World Health Aseembly discusses -for the 1st time in its history- a resolution on the impact of loneliness on health and the importance of social connection

Historic moment at #WHA78 with adoption of 1st ever WHA resolution on social connection 🙏 Chile 🇨🇱 Spain 🇪🇸 for the leadership A socially connected world is needed more than ever. World Health Organization (WHO) is ready to support Member States harness the #PowerOfConnection 🔗apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_f…

Join my WHO/Europe #THEPEP colleagues for a global webinar marking #WorldBicycleDay to launch the campaign “Let’s Get Moving! 100 Reasons to Walk and Cycle More.” Register:  tinyurl.com/4pr8xx8z #RoadSafety #MakeCyclingSafe #MakeWalkingSafe

Today I addressed the G20 Joint Finance & Health Task Force w/ our World Health Organization (WHO) policy paper on promising high return options to ⬆️ health equity. Policies on social protection, housing, early childhood education, WASH & structural discrimination have great ROI. No excuse for inaction.

It’s #WorldBicycleDay! Happy to join the celebration ride with Belgium UN Geneva , United Nations Geneva UCI World Health Organization (WHO). When it is safe, cycling is a clean, healthy, affordable, reliable and sustainable means of transport! tinyurl.com/hu8kfkjk #RoadSafety #MakeCyclingSafe

Happy father's day to my beloved father! Bonne fête des pères!

Les professionnels de santé peuvent jouer un rôle clé pour reconnaître la violence à l’encontre des enfants et y répondre rapidement. Notre cours en ligne sur la prise en charge des enfants victimes de maltraitance est désormais disponible en français: shorturl.at/pNZ8z

Most of us know what it's like to be lonely. But not always that it harms our health – and health of our communities & societies? The World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Connection's report launches on 30 June, 15:00 CEST. Join us to learn more: bit.ly/who-csc-report #PowerOfConnection

Why Can’t Every Country Be Like Norway When It Comes To Road Safety? via @forbes forbes.com/sites/tanyamoh…

Great press conference today with Vivek Murthy Jakob Forssmed in advance of the launch of the report of the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Connection (Monday 30 June) bit.ly/who-csc-report #PowerOfConnection

1.3m ppl die on the roads each year. that's 1.3 too many. lets make roads safer.

Starting now: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus opens the launch of the report of the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Connection: « Social connection is not a luxury. It is essential to our health »