Dear Colleagues,

We start this week’s intro by flagging our IHP call for correspondents 2024. Deadline is 15 December. Do apply if you fit the profile!

Next week features both the Third International Conference on Public Health in Africa in Zambia  (27-30 November), and the kick-off of – the by now slightly notorious – COP28 (on 30 Nov). Especially the run-up to the latter conference is fairly hectic, with plenty of reports & last minute high-level advocacy, including from a health angle – as you’ll notice in this issue.

Anyway. On Monday, I attended a (European) Global Health Policy Forum  in Brussels – for the first time since Covid. Focus was, among others, on the EU Global Health Strategy and ‘Team Europe’, also from a M&E point of view. It was an informative meeting, and so I was happy to attend and learn from the many panelists & other participants. Nevertheless (and in spite of the upcoming Belgian EU (Council) presidency in 2024 😊), I hope you allow me a short, ...