HuffPost: Bill Gates, Alzheimer’s, and an Aging Health Agenda Michael Hodin, CEO of the Global Coalition on Aging “…[T]he … impact of the $100 million [Bill] Gates has now donated to find the cure for Alzheimer’s is the literal and profound reframing of global public health now and forever defined…

Associated Press: South Sudan Sexual Violence on ‘Massive Scale,’ Report Says “…Four years into South Sudan’s devastating civil war, the world’s youngest nation is reeling from sexual violence on a ‘massive scale,’ a new Amnesty International report says. Thousands of women, children, and some men are suffering in silence, grappling…

FT Health: Boardroom commitment key to healthier workforce The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses FT’s new Health at Work report, includes an interview with U.K. Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies, and features a roundup of other global health-related news stories (Jack/Dodd, 9/15).

HuffPost: Mental Health Money Can’t Just Follow Bombs, Bullets And Trauma Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger, co-founders of WE “…[T]he problem [of mental health disorders] is often overlooked in light of other pressing development priorities. … For many, the logic is inescapable. In the hierarchy of needs, lifting people out…

The Conversation: Rising suicides in Mexico expose the mental health toll of living with extreme, chronic violence Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, postdoctoral scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego “…[N]ew data from the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua reveals the dangerous mental health toll of…

BBC News: Lack of exercise puts one in four people at risk, WHO says “…A WHO report estimates that more than a quarter of [adults] worldwide — 1.4 billion — are not doing enough physical exercise, a figure that has barely improved since 2001…” (Therrien, 9/5). CNN: ‘Pandemic’ of inactivity…

FT Health: Quality not quantity The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses findings from the Lancet Global Health Commission on High-Quality Care, highlighting an accompanying report and podcast. The issue also features an interview with Ekaterina Malievskaia, chief medical officer and co-founder of Compass Pathways,…

Devex: Syria’s humanitarian crisis not likely to end in 2019, U.N. expert says (Lieberman, 10/5). Inter Press Service: Over and Under Nutrition: Two Sides of an Unhealthy Coin (Yakupitiyage, 10/4). IRIN: “If the water finishes, we will leave”: Drought is forcing hundreds of thousands of Afghans from their homes (Glinski,…

Devex: Opinion: The critical need for finance to unlock better mental health James Sale, health financing and governance advocate and policy, advocacy, and financing manager at United for Global Mental Health, and colleagues “…The enormous human cost of mental health ought to itself galvanize government investment. But the unique economic…

AP: U.N. aid chief: Funding shortage cuts aid to 4 million Yemenis (Lederer, 10/15). Devex: Which bilateral donors are supporting mental health? (Smith/Cordale, 10/14). Devex: $100M genomic sequencing initiative launches in Africa (Chakamba, 10/15). STAT: Thank this Ebola-fighting African doctor for monoclonal antibody treatments (Jenson, 10/15). U.N. News: Invest in…