Dear Colleagues,

I’ll keep it short in this week’s intro as there’s again a tsunami of Covid-19 related information, updates & analysis awaiting you. Earlier this week, UN Secretary general Guterres called the current times “humanity’s worst crisis since WW II”, and I’m afraid he’s not exaggerating. Now that the third wave of Covid-19 has really started, we are also increasingly witnessing how important it is to  “include wider social, economic, and clinical consequences of public health actions”   in our strategies, modelling and approaches… even if that’s easier said than done in the complex systems that are our societies and (interconnected) economies. As for global health, planetary health, global health governance & diplomacy … it feels like every day one or another paradigm is being shifted (see the ongoing “(face)mask diplomacy” as just one example), even if too many still want to “save” a rotten system. For all these reasons, there’ll be a big focus on Covid-19 in the...