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Walking 24 miles from Winchester to Salisbury along the Clarendon Way with my son doing the #GlobalMile with Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Global Health Framework launched by FCDO & DHSC, working together towards a healthier world. 4 key objectives: Strengthen global health security Reform global health architecture Strengthen country health systems Advance UK leadership in science & tech gov.uk/government/pub…

OPPORTUNITY - Senior Research Fellow secondment to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, in: - political economy of water - politics & governance - conflict - economic devt - women & girls - climate resilient ag & food - global health - big data, AI - critical minerals, supply chains - quantum

Exciting to see this opportunity to reinvigorate Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office work on #development through a White Paper

Vital to be maximising the opportunities and mitigating the risks of AI. The global summit presents the opportunity for the world to come together on this critical issue

British diplomat Sir Peter Marshall died in June this year. He finished his Foreign Office career as UK Permanent Representative in Geneva (1979-83) before becoming Deputy SG of the Commonwealth (1983-88). Here are his ten precepts of diplomacy. 🧵

For those interested in #GlobalHealth do follow FCDO’s new Twitter/X account FCDO Global Health

It was good to be part of #cgdbmjglobalheath thinking about future challenges & opportunities facing global heath, & how to use strengths in UK’s global heath to respond. With Tamsyn Barton, Pete Baker, Jocalyn Clark, Prof Mishal S Khan, Clare Wenham, Anna Wechsberg, Center for Global Development & The BMJ.

GREAT OPPORTUNITY to apply to join Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office as a Health Adviser. Please consider applying to UK-Based roles (civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…), Overseas-Based roles (civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…) or ideally both! I have loved my time as a #Health Adviser, and would strongly recommend this!

Just returning from Rwanda. Still as beautiful as I remember from 28yrs ago - the country of 1000 hills. I was here for the Marburg response. As often happens health workers are critical to the response, but sadly most impacted. Wishing colleagues well as they continue to respond

Expertise is critical to enable global impact. Exciting to see this opportunity for leading academic experts in #CleanEnergy and Infrastructure, Food and Ag, #Migration and #Humanitarian to join Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office as Senior Research Fellows

Call for applications: Senior Research Fellows at the FCDO FCDO Research, Science and Technology's Research Commissioning Centre, led by 3ie and Uni of Birmingham, invites applications for three part-time Senior Research Fellow placements in the following fields: ▪ Clean Energy and Innovation ▪

I’ve just started as Director of Global Health Protection at UK Health Security Agency. I’m very excited about opportunities that this role brings to have an impact on global health - drawing on the great expertise that UK has to offer, working across HMG, and collaborating closely with partners

Great to talk to Italian colleagues about AMR, vaccines and vector-borne diseases at the signing of this data sharing agreement between Istituto Superiore di Sanità and UK Health Security Agency

Good to talk with Dr Jean Kaseya about UK Health Security Agency exciting partnership with Africa CDC, working together to tackle global health threats

Fast action from Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health ETHIOPIA in its declaration of the Marburg outbreak. Rapid testing of samples by Ethiopia’s new VHF lab, (which has partnered with UK Health Security Agency’s International Health Regulations Strengthening Project (IHR-SP).