Dear Colleagues,

I’m back from a few weeks in the “Middle Kingdom” (thanks a lot, @Rajeev B R for taking over the ‘IHP shop’ the past weeks!). Just like a few years ago, my feelings about the visit were somewhat ambivalent  – and not just because on a long distance flight leaving at 2 am in the morning, I tend to feel like a long-legged Yeti (with a rather heavy jetlag resulting). But I won’t go into detail on my short China visit here, as there’s plenty happening in global health these weeks.

This newsletter issue will be a bit more extensive than usual, as we also feature some more journal articles of the past few weeks (especially in the extra sections), and come back on a few global health events (including the recent G20 Health related meetings and the 7^th International Family Planning Conference in Colombia) from last week in this rather crazy “month of international meetings”. So for once, we hope you do check out the extra sections more in detail (beyond just the...