Devex: Future of DFID hangs in the balance after Conservative landslide “The fate of the U.K. Department for International Development appears more uncertain than ever after aid-skeptic Boris Johnson’s Conservative party secured a decisive majority in Thursday’s election. The landslide victory, which saw the Conservatives win 365 seats in parliament…

Devex: DFID and FCO draw up plans for a potential merger “Aid-friendly politicians and civil society groups have urged the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to keep the Department for International Development as a standalone department after rumors circulated that the Conservatives plan to merge DFID with the Foreign &…

Financial Times: Johnson plans Foreign Office takeover of international aid budget “Boris Johnson is planning to fold the U.K.’s Department for International Development into the Foreign Office if he wins this week’s election, as he tries to flesh out his promise to build a post-Brexit ‘global Britain.’ Mr. Johnson wants…

Center for Global Development: U.K. Elections: What’s News on Global Health So Far? Amanda Glassman, executive vice president and senior fellow; Kalipso Chalkidou, director of global health policy and senior fellow; and Nurilign Ahmed, senior policy analyst, all with the Center for Global Development, examine U.K. political party manifestos for…

BMJ Opinion: Leaving nobody outside our healthcare systems — in Europe or elsewhere Jeffrey V. Lazarus, head of the health systems team at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and an associate professor at the faculty of medicine at the University of Barcelona; Denis Onyango, programmes director at the…

Health Policy Watch: Norway Launches First-Ever Strategy By Major International Donor To Combat Non-Communicable Diseases “Norway has launched a milestone ‘Better Health, Better Life’ strategy to combat deadly non-communicable (NCDs) diseases as part of its international development assistance. This makes Norway the first to develop a strategy for combating this…

BBC: Dutch doctor dies after contracting Lassa fever in Sierra Leone “A Dutch doctor who was evacuated from Sierra Leone after contracting Lassa fever has died in hospital. The medic was flown home on Tuesday after being infected in the northern town of Masanga, an area not previously known to…

Health Policy Watch: Health Is A Political Choice — But Should Health Officials Be Politicians Or Professionals? Armando Bartolazzi, Italy’s former undersecretary of state for health “…There is a long tradition in Italy of politicians appointing key health officials for the National Health System (NHS). However, I was part of…

WHO Regional Office for Europe: Four countries pilot a joint, multisectoral response to tuberculosis (TB), HIV and viral hepatitis “Following the launch in 2018 of the United Nations Common Position on Ending HIV, TB and Viral Hepatitis through Intersectoral Collaboration, Belarus, Georgia, Portugal, and Tajikistan agreed to lead the way…

The Conversation: Mandatory vaccination is not the solution for measles in Europe Vageesh Jain, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Public Health Medicine at UCL “Global measles cases reached their highest levels since 2006 in the first six months of 2019. With countries around the world struggling to contain outbreaks, government…