In November of 2025 the 30th session of the Conference of Parties (COP30) took place in Belem, Brazil.While the COP has been the central platform for environmental policy for decades, and a touchpoint on current attitudes towards the climate crisis, health has surprisingly not played a very central role in the past. It appears this is – at la...

The WHO Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel aims to promote ethical norms and principles to guide the international recruitment of health workers. In this blog I explore why the implementation and regulation of the WHO Code of Practice has been ineffective so far. In 2010, the WHO introduced a set of ethical...

The German health care system is under strain due to a shortage of skilled workers. Estimates project a lack of 1.8 million health workers by 2035. Facilities for the elderly are especially facing difficulties to provide quality care due to human resource constraints.  Advocacy groups describe this as a “self-made crisis” that has arisen du...

“Prevent, detect, contain and treat”: following the pillars of its pandemic preparedness and response framework, Germany’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has been praised for its low fatality rate.  However, the conventional prioritization of immediate biomedical needs as the primary guiding principle in outbreak management arguably ca...