Dear Colleagues,

As you might have noticed, it’s been quite a week (deep sigh).

As Tedros was taking part in a – presumably important – discussion on “the Dawning of the New Global Health Architecture” at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos (check the picture on the participants), the dawn of a new world (dis)order  was in full display. As well as the Dawn of a new Davos, even worse than the previous one it seems. You find much more about Davos in this newsletter (from a global & planetary health, and development/taxation angle mostly). 

While global health reimaginers are boldly aiming “to Leap where no one has Leaped before”, I still hope they start the reform towards a new global health ecosystem  from a rather simple assessment –  as compared to burying it somewhere in the all but last paragraph. That is, the one Oxfam comes up with, every year, ahead of Davos. A few telling stats from this year’s report:  the 12 richest billionaires now have more wealth than half the...