Dear Colleagues,

As I don’t need to tell you, following a World Health Assembly from afar is not quite the same. Fortunately, a few of my colleagues were around in Geneva this week. Today you can already read a first contribution by Valérie in the Feat article section. And stay tuned for a joint analysis (by Rachel & Valérie) next week.

This issue (read together with Tuesday’s ‘WHA79: part one’) continues the curated compilation of the great work by colleagues from Health Policy Watch, Devex, Geneva Health Files, People’s Dispatch (and let’s not forget Habib Benzian ’s incisive analyses!).

I won’t try to capture the entire WHA agenda here in the intro ( I’m not Don Quixote), so let me just briefly dwell on one issue here, that got plenty of attention this week in Geneva: the ‘Global Health reform’.

By now, WHA participants probably have a severe migraine from all this ‘rethinking global health for a changing world’, but as I concur with this year’s WHA theme...