Care is the backbone of life. Yet, women provide most of the unpaid and under-paid care work. On #DayOfCare, let us balance the scales by ✅Making unpaid care work a shared responsibility ✅Ensuring paid care jobs are decent jobs Learn how: unwo.men/zOb850TTIhH

Globally, women & girls spend more than twice as many hours on unpaid care & domestic work compared to men. Tuesday is #DayOfCare —an opportunity to address gender stereotypes and seek solutions to redistribute unpaid care & domestic work. unwomen.org/en/articles/in… via UN Women

Abortion bans kill another woman. On the day of her baby shower, Nevaeh Crain went to the ER bleeding & feverish. She was diagnosed with sepsis, a deadly infection - but her fetus still had a heart beat. She was sent home. After her 3rd ER visit, she died. propublica.org/article/nevaeh…

All citizens aged 70 and above are now covered under Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, with ₹5 lakh annual healthcare coverage. Ensuring security for 6 crore seniors across India. #HealthForAll #AyushmanBharat #ViksitBharatSwasthaBharat

🔴 708 million women are unable to participate in the labour market due to unpaid care work. As the need for care grows, urgent measures are essential to support the care economy and ensure women’s access to paid employment. Learn more: ow.ly/esIV50TVixG

Happy 91st birthday to Amartya Sen! He was awarded the 1998 prize in economic sciences "for his contributions to welfare economics." Sen was born in Santiniketan, Bengal, in India and attended a school founded by another #NobelPrize laureate - Rabindranath Tagore.

Richard A. Cash, Who Saved Millions From Dehydration, Dies at 83. Richard was also an inspirational professor Harvard University School of Public Health nytimes.com/2024/11/02/sci…

By 2050, women over 50 will make up 34.7% of the world's female population. Yet, their needs are largely ignored in policy and funding. We need to do better. 🌐bit.ly/3UEztdG HelpAge International #OlderPersons #GenderEquality

We're heading to #COP29 to spotlight the link between #ClimateChange and population ageing. Older people face disproportionate impacts—it's time their needs are prioritised. Follow our new project with #1in6by2030, sharing powerful stories from 15 countries. #ClimateElders

#Measles vaccines have saved more lives than any other vaccine in the past 50 years. The latest World Health Organization (WHO)/CDC data are worrisome: drops in immunization coverage drove a 20% increase in new measles cases last year — making the total number of cases over 10 million. To stop this

📢 Reminder: LSE Global Health, Ageing@LSE and LSE International Development are hosting Dr Ritu Sadana – Head of Ageing and Health at World Health Organization (WHO) – for a seminar on how we build an economy of wellbeing for all. 📅Tuesday November 26 at 12:00pm on campus. Details here: bit.ly/WHOAgeing

Delighted to be speaking in honor of Earth Day on April 22, 6pm CEST on the unequal impacts of climate change on the health of older adults.USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health HelpAge International HelpAgeUSA World Health Organization (WHO) - register here: tinyurl.com/IIGHHazardousI…

Looking forward to today’s Official #WHA78 Side Event on Accelerating impact of the UN Decade #HealthyAgeing - focusing on impactful investments. Salle XXVI in the Palais des Nations, reception at 17:15 and main event at 18:00-19:30, 19 May 2025

A productive & thoughtful discussion on investments in #HealthyAgeing at #WHA78 on «Accelerating impact of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021 - 2030 » with Ministers and DG’s from Qatar, Republic of Korea, Japan, Finland, Spain, Thailand.

How can a #lifecourse approach reorient health systems to produce health at all ages? What is already being done? And what more can we do? Join us on 27 June at 8am New York - 2pm Paris - 7pm Bangkok - 9pm Tokyo. Register for link tinyurl.com/yhwzuzxa or QR code👇🏼 #UHC #PHC

Still time to register! Join us on 27 June at 8am New York - 2pm Paris - 7pm Bangkok - 9pm Tokyo. Register for link tinyurl.com/yhwzuzxa or QR code👇🏼 #UHC #PHC World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Jeremy Farrar Anshu Banerjee

L’étape d’aujourd’hui du #TDF2025 se termine au sommet du Mont Ventoux !!!! À ne pas manquer !!!!