Think Global Health: The Thousand and One Natural Shocks of COVID-19 Kevin O’Rourke, freelance scientific writer at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and Alize Ferrari, research fellow within the policy and epidemiology team at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research and an affiliate assistant…

Financial Times: Now is the time to tackle the mental illness epidemic Editorial Board “Business leaders have for decades boasted in company annual reports about how people are their priority. It is surprising, therefore, that mental health has taken so long to reach the top of their agenda. … Coronavirus…

Devex: Opinion: Why mental health integration in HIV and TB programs is a win-win Ren Minghui, assistant director general for universal health coverage/communicable and noncommunicable diseases at the WHO and WHO representative on the boards of the Global Fund, UNAIDS, and UNITAID; and Shannon Hader, deputy executive director of programs…

New Humanitarian/Center for Global Development’s “Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast”: Humanitarianism: The making of… Heba Aly, director of the New Humanitarian, and Jeremy Konyndyk, senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, both hosts of the Rethinking Humanitarian Podcast, speak with Antonio Donini, research associate at the Graduate Institute of International…

Borgen Magazine: Senator Bob Casey’s Poverty Reduction Efforts (McWilliams, 11/3). Borgen Magazine: South America’s Indigenous Populations Combat COVID-19 (Engels, 11/3). Devex: COVID-19 is just part of the story for NGOs in the Pacific (Cornish, 11/4). Devex: Q&A: Why resilience is key to improved delivery of aid (Root, 11/3). The Guardian:…

Borgen Magazine: Mothers2mothers: Aiding the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kochi, 10/31). Borgen Magazine: Rotary International’s Response to COVID-19 (Tomasello, 10/31). Devex: Lessons from IFRC on integrating mental health into humanitarian response (Smith, 11/2). Devex: U.K. ministers ‘just cannot understand’ merits of aid spending, says Rory Stewart (Worley, 10/30). Devex:…

Devex: The Healthy Brains Global Initiative, the next Global Fund? “Brad Herbert hopes to raise $10 billion for a new global initiative set to launch in 2021 at Davos. But with the coronavirus creating a global economic crisis, he is aware raising funds is going to be a huge challenge.…

Al Jazeera: Child malnutrition reaches new highs in parts of Yemen: U.N. (10/27). AP: Poland’s PM defends abortion ruling, condemns protests (10/27). Borgen Magazine: Humanitarian Organizations Addressing Hunger in Syria (Pangman, 10/26). Devex: Liberia mental health services ‘overloaded’ after lockdown, MSF says (Smith, 10/27). Devex: Can funders help bridge the…

Borgen Magazine: Exploring the Protecting Human Rights During Pandemic Act (Kamis, 10/26). Borgen Magazine: Boost: Tackling the HIV Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa (Dan, 10/23). Devex: Exclusive: Inside the battle over a U.N. report on water privatization (Root, 10/26). Devex: Q&A: U.N. Women deputy director on the cost of not prioritizing…

Devex: The pandemic takes its toll on women and girls’ mental health “Experts are sounding the alarm about the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of women and girls in lower-income countries. … [W]omen and girls in low- and middle-income countries are facing a cluster of social and…