From Our October 2025 Connections Newsletter

• ‘America First’ Global Health Strategy Commits to Funding Medicines & Health Workers – In Time-Limited, Bilateral Deals [Health Policy Watch]
• Opinion | Jeremy Berg: Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment [Substack]
• America First in Global Health: How Africa Should Respond [Think Global Health]
• US Objections Stall UN Effort to Tackle Noncommunicable Diseases [Devex]
• Opinion | The Global Health Landscape Will Never Be the Same — & It Shouldn’t Be [Devex]
• Opinion | Foreign Aid Is Mostly Gone. It Could Be Replaced with Something Better. [New York Times]
• Bill Gates: I’m Still Optimistic About Global Health [Time]
• Innovation in Medicines for Global Health: A 20-Year Landscape Analysis [Nature]
• Africa CDC Chief: 60% of Foreign Health Aid Was Effectively Wasted [Devex]
• WHO Releases New Reports on New Tests & Treatments in Development for Bacterial Infections [WHO]
• The Pernicious Infections Infiltrating Ukraine’s Front Lines [Knowable Magazine]
• US Relies Heavily on China, Other Nations for Antibiotics [CIDRAP]
• What if NIH Had Been 40% Smaller? [Science]
• NIH Pulled off a ‘Near Miracle.’ Scientists Say There’s Still a Problem. [Washington Post]
• KFF’s Health Policy 101 [KFF]
• Trump’s USAID Pause Stranded Lifesaving Drugs. Children Died Waiting. [Washington Post]
• With USAID Gone, Do Foundations Still Care About Localization? [Devex]
• The Ethics of AI-Driven Health Projects in Africa [Think Global Health]
• Singapore to Africa: AI Diagnostics for a Healthier Future [Think Global Health]
• If AI Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For? [New Yorker]
• Trump Orders $50M for AI in Pediatric Cancer Research [Axios]
• Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2025 [UN Women]
• Gates Foundation Announces $912M Pledge to the Global Fund 2026-2028 Replenishment [Gates Foundation]
• Trump, Questioning Vaccine Safety, Pushes Major Changes to How Kids Get Shots [STAT]
• ‘Sick to My Stomach’: Trump Distorts Facts on Autism, Tylenol, & Vaccines, Scientists Say [KFF Health News]
• CDC Formally Approves RFK Jr. Vaccine Panel Recommendations [Axios]
• RFK Jr. Sets off New Abortion Alarms [Axios]
• California Doctors Can Now Prescribe Abortion Anonymously [Politico]
• California to Begin Selling Affordable State-Branded Insulin Beginning Next Year [AP News]
• Superbug Infections Outpace the Development of New Antibiotics, WHO Report Warns [The Telegraph]
• Sharp Global Rise in Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospitals, WHO Finds [The Guardian]
• mRNA Covid Shots May Boost the Effects of Certain Cancer Treatments, Study Suggests [STAT+]
• 90% of Rich Countries’ Global Health R&D Goes to Domestic Institutions [Devex]
• ‘We Called Ourselves the Lifeboat Crew’: How Fired USAID Workers Launched a Rescue Project ‘To Save as Many Babies as We Can’ [The Guardian]
• When a Simple Swim Carries a Risk of Dangerous Illness [New York Times]
• WHO Reports Sharp Rise in Malaria Cases in Afghanistan Amid Worsening Health Crisis [Kabul Now]
• Germany Announces Billion-Euro Investment to Fight AIDS & Malaria [Yahoo! News]
• UNAIDS Is Set to Close In 2026 – Four Years Early. Are Experts Right to Be Alarmed? [The Guardian]
• The Nation Where Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Colliding with a Deadly Ebola Outbreak: ‘What We Feared Has Now Happened’ [The Independent]
• Ebola Outbreak in Southern Congo Shows Signs of Containment with No New Cases, WHO Reports [AP News]
• Bangladesh Dengue Cases Top 50,000 in 2025 [Outbreak News Today]
• Crowded Camps, Stagnant Water & Not Enough Doctors: First the Floods, Now Disease Stalks Millions in Pakistan [The Guardian]
• ‘Dismal’ Health of World’s Forests Is Threat to Humanity, Report Warns [The Guardian]
• Starving Children Screaming for Food as US Aid Cuts Unleash Devastation & Death Across Myanmar [AP News]
• UN Agency Says 13.7M People Face Severe Hunger Due to Global Aid Cuts [Reuters]
• ‘Real Progress’ Is Made in Delivering Aid to Gaza, UN Says [New York Times]
• Shattered Concrete, Dirty Water & Asbestos: Israeli Bombing Causes ‘Unparalleled’ Ecological Crisis in Gaza [Bureau of Investigative Journalism]
• Heart Disease Back as Top Global Killer as Study Highlights’ Toll’ of Chronic Conditions, Rising Youth Deaths [CBC]
• All-in-One’ Super’ Covid Vaccines Could Slow Next Pandemic, Study Finds [The Telegraph]
• Listen. Schrödinger’s Government Shutdown [KFF Health News]