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Katri Bertram

Katri Bertram is a senior global health leader with over 20 years’ experience across government, NGOs, and multilaterals. She currently leads international impact and external relations at Light for the World and previously led the German G7 Presidency (health track) and was chief negotiator for health for G20.Katri serves on the boards of Wemos, Global Health Advocates, and BMJ Public Health, with expertise in strategy, governance, financing, and diplomacy.
 

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Global health architecture reform must be anchored in UHC

As a new UHC Knowledge Hub is launched in Japan ahead of international UHC Day, global health reform initiatives should align behind UHC as a country-led, sustainable global health model if they want to stay relevant. Momentum for global health reform is at a peak. The Accra Reset, the Lusaka Agenda, Wellcome Trust’s commissioned propo...

Ethics of X:  To stay or not to stay?  

Summary of #HSR2024 Nagasaki interactive debate Is it ethical for health policy and systems researchers to use X, formerly Twitter? As we began planning our session several months before the 8th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research  (18-22 Nov) in Nagasaki, Japan, we wondered whether this topic was too niche. Since November, however, ...

History repeats itself – if we don’t act to change its course

In global health, we don’t just observe what happens: we work to improve the health of people and populations. Based on scientific evidence and history, we know that viruses don’t stop at borders. If we don’t work to prevent disease, we know that infections and chronic conditions run rampant. If we don’t have strong health and social s...

A historic, landmark victory for multilateralism?

If you followed last week’s 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) – the WHO’s governing body composed of its 194 member states – through press release headlines, it was a historic success. WHO’s Director-General Dr. Tedros closed the week by stating WHA77 had been a “victory for multilateralism”. “Landmark” resolutions were passed on...

The good, the bad, and the ugly – Book review of Tim Schwab’s ‘The Bill Gates Problem’

If there’s one part of Tim Schwab’s “reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire” (the book’s subtitle) you read, make it the conclusion. Schwab asks some fundamental questions on these final pages: Should one person, “any person – no matter how benevolent or well intentioned” have obscene amounts of wealth and extreme power...

Disruption is necessary to deliver our mission in global health

10 years ago, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were coming to an end and millions of people were participating in consultations to develop the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a global health colleague sent me a link to the IHP newsletter with a message “this is good stuff, read this.” I’ve since followed the newsletter ...

Work-life balance and work-life joy in global health: Four regional perspectives and a Call to Action

The issue of work-life balance has recently been highlighted in a number of global health discussions. For example, earlier this year, the Wellcome Trust quite publicly explored whether to introduce a 4-day working week (but decided against this). The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation introduced a 52-week paid parental leave (but then halved this...