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Noncommunicable Diseases UN resolution without GLP-1 (“obesity”) drugs is useless
The definition of insanity, it’s said, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
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Peter Singer
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A small victory against anti-semitism in global health
International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations suspends and then reinstates Federation of Israeli Medical Students
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Bill Gates spends $200 billion: Readers respond
Last week, I published a blog on how Bill Gates should spend $200 billion as he sunsets his foundation by 2045.
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Peter Singer
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May 2025

How Should Bill Gates Spend $200 Billion?
Bill Gates recently announced that the Gates Foundation will spend down its endowment over the next 20 years, contributing approximately $200 billion to…
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UN leadership: relentlessly focused on results?
Questions for candidates for UN Secretary General and other UN agencies
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Red Teaming Pandemics
A New Approach for WHO and countries
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How to Fill the America-Shaped Hole in Global Health
In my New York Times guest essay published today, I argue:
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April 2025

January 2025

Medical students, anti-Semitism, and “small beginnings”
In 1949, Dr Leo Alexander, a psychiatrist and consultant to the Secretary of War on the Nuremberg trials, wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine…
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President Trump withdraws the US from WHO — now what?
On day one, President Trump issued an Executive Order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization.
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New year, greater impact
Career advice for young (and not so young) people
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December 2024

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