Dear Colleagues,  

In this week’s Highlights section we pay attention to the main news from the AIDS conference in Montreal and the  – speeding up – global monkeypox vaccine race  (sadly, with a fair amount of déjà vu so far…), among others. If you haven’t done so yet, do also check out a key Decolonize Global Health read in the Lancet on medical education as a colonial institution. 

Before handing over the IHP shop to my colleague John de Maesschalck for a few weeks (thanks John!), though, I’d like to dwell briefly on the climate emergency.  It’s downright frightening to see more and more experts not just discussing anymore climate change as a ‘risk multiplier’ but speculating (like this week in PNAS) on at least the possibility of – what they call – a  “climate endgame”,  featuring also “…. the “four horsemen” of the climate endgame: famine, extreme weather, war and disease.”      Aka ‘apocalyptic disaster’.  If that’s not fodder for a late stage-capitalism Marvel...