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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 3h

5) Funding cuts and censorship hitting independent advocacy, independent NGOs, and independent communication/journalism heavily. Very few critical, authentic spaces left. 🆘

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 3h

3) Is Berlin still a serious global health hub? It wont be if it moves more to Bonn (UN) or NRW (WHO Hub)
4) Massive rise in ageism against young (under 40) and older (over 60) women happening with job cuts.

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 3h

#WHS2025 take-aways from the discussions that count (over ☕️ & in the corridors):
1) Where’s the Chancellor and top leadership? Has Germany (despite a 1bn GF pledge) dropped #globalhealth?
2) Is all this architecture discussion new or old-old-never-changes? Something’s shifting, there’s reform hope

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 6h

You can now rewatch our @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social opening session on closing the #disabilityInclusion gap in health: www.worldhealthsummit.org/sessions/00e... @light-for-the-world.org

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 16h

Placing a few women, people of color, or a person with a disability on stage for the formal photo-opp, when only white men are in the leading roles, is not inclusion or diversity, it’s “diversity-washing”, diversion and deception. 🤬

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 3d

Joining #WHS2025 on Sunday in-person or online? We have the best session of the day lined up for you! Join us at 11am CET. I'll be chairing. @light-for-the-world.org

Bridging the disability inclusion gap session invitation, with logos of the World Health Summit and session co-hosts: Special Olympics, WHO, CBM, ATScale, Sightsavers, HI, IDDC

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 3d

See you in Berlin Sunday onwards, #globalhealth gang. #WHS2025

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WHO @who.int · 3d

It's #WorldSightDay

Prolonged screen or reading times can lead to eye strain, dry eyes, and headaches.

DO take breaks!

Use the 20-20-20 rule to help your eyes:
🖥️ After using a screen for 20 minutes
📏 Look at an object 20 feet away
🕓 For 20 seconds

Infographic titled “Avoid eye strain & headaches – follow the 20-20-20 rule”. It explains:
After 20 minutes spent using a screen, look at an object 20 feet (6 metres) away for at least 20 seconds.

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 3d

Hope to see many of you at this event - and read the book too! @profsophieharman.bsky.social

Kristof Decoster @kristofdecoster.bsky.social · 3d

Via Medico International: www.medico.de/en/crisis-of... Spot on.

Global health - Crisis of legitimacy - medico international

The global right is launching an attack on global health. Its success in this endeavour is partly home-grown. Interview with Sophie Harman

www.medico.de

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 3d

🙌 @maebhnif.bsky.social (& @seyeabimbola.bsky.social)! 💯

Global Health Matters podcast 🎙️ @ghm-podcast.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to Maebh Ní Fhallúin for this powerful reflection on ethics and justice on S4 of the #GlobalHealthMatters podcast.
Share your ideas for S5 via our listener survey 👉 https://tinyurl.com/GHM-Listener-Survey

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 4d

Can’t wait! 🤩 📚

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 4d

I've for 40+ yrs had travelling privileges due to my nationality, with visa free travel to nearly all countries. Over the past year I've applied for more visas than in decades - now also to the UK. It feels cumbersome, but I remind myself this is nothing compared to what most people experience.

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 4d

Look forward to catching up next time - with better weather too :)

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 4d

Look forward to seeing many of you at #WHS2025. Perhaps also due to visa and funding challenges, the speaker and participant list appears to be shifting. I'll be keeping my eye on inclusive vs VIP-only spaces. The two rarely intersect.

World Health Summit @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social · 7d

Who is ready for #WHS2025?

⏳ Only 1 week to go until we open the doors to the World Health Summit 2025 in Berlin & online

👉 Register today and secure your spot: https://f.mtr.cool/siihxrdhyb

📅 October 12-14, 2025 | 📍 Berlin & Online

#GlobalHealth #HealthForAll

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve read several Arendt books and a biography before, but this book, written in the Trump 1 presidency, is blowing my mind 😱

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 23d

Sometimes it’s the little things is difficult times.
Thanks to my local bookstore, whenever I feel hopeless, I walk in and they’ve placed exactly what I need on their central tables and shelves. (Libraries are even better, unfortunately just not in Berlin 😢).

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 6d

What happens to women leaders between the glass ceiling and glass cliff? Book review of “Machtgebiete” (zones of power): katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/w...

Why you should read “Machtgebiete”: What happens between the glass ceiling and the glass cliff?

What happens when 50 top (women) managers (working in Germany) publicly share what really happens in zones of power (C-level and board rooms)?

katribertram.wordpress.com

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 9d

Important points, @kristofdecoster.bsky.social, while we “reimagine” in 17 parallel processes in the happy non-political abstract….

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 9d

Survey: The future of global health in the context of an evolving landscape and the Lusaka Agenda
www.surveymonkey.com/r/LX67VNF (via @ihpnetwork.bsky.social)

Survey on the future of global health

Kindly complete this 15 minute survey as part of the EU-led process on the Future of Global Health in the context of an evolving landscape and the Lusaka Agenda. The survey should take approximately 1...

www.surveymonkey.com

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 10d

Like. More of this and moving of some mountains - I’m in. 👇Read
www.politico.eu/sponsored-co...

Why global health needs change – an interview with John-Arne Røttingen

Visit the post for more.

www.politico.eu

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 10d

I read this book by Jane Goodall when everything in my work felt so bleak. It’s a lovely story about how all aspects of life (human 🐒 and nature) and livelihoods are connected. It didn’t make me more hopeful but it did inspire me and was important food for thought. RIP

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 11d

And hope that’s real transparency and not the standard PR “at least 1 billion” pharma and also often government (at least in Germany) keeps repeating…

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 11d

I have a strange habit of reading @economist.com from back to front (and sometimes back-middle, then front-middle). Only got to the opening and this today… It’s good, but sanitized: where is the human toll? Gaza is not just rubble, it’s also a mass gaveyard.

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 16d

After slow months, @bsky.app is really rocking it this week during #UNGA80, whereas LinkedIn has all the polished public PR. Thank you, community here who is speaking out and pushing back on the BS!

Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 16d

Read the full thread. 👇 We need more focus on fair pricing and access to medicines. @wemos.org

Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 16d

A deal to allow generic versions of HIV-prevention shots in lower income countries is fabulous news. Just $40/year (vs $28K in the US)

Great news, but as usual, middle-income nations with high poverty & lots of HIV are left out.

By @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

www.nytimes.com

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 16d

Look forward to seeing you!

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