Katri Bertram
@katribertram.bsky.social
Transforming global health and social impact. Private account & views.
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“United we stand. Divided we fall. Divided, the dark age returns. United, we can save and guide the world!” -Churchill, and words I have thought a lot about for our current and increasingly fragmented state of #globalhealth
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
“United we stand. Divided we fall. Divided, the dark age returns. United, we can save and guide the world!” -Churchill, and words I have thought a lot about for our current and increasingly fragmented state of #globalhealth
What a beautiful (moving but also fun) @berliner-philharmoniker.de DSO evening yesterday - including this 😭 💔
m.youtube.com/watch?v=inNB... #NinaSimone #CivilRights #Freedom
m.youtube.com/watch?v=inNB... #NinaSimone #CivilRights #Freedom
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
What a beautiful (moving but also fun) @berliner-philharmoniker.de DSO evening yesterday - including this 😭 💔
m.youtube.com/watch?v=inNB... #NinaSimone #CivilRights #Freedom
m.youtube.com/watch?v=inNB... #NinaSimone #CivilRights #Freedom
What makes work special? No-brainer: It's the people!
In leadership we focus on vision, strategy, fighting daily challenges. We often forget what really counts. (A summer photo of our lovely Vienna staff, not a foggy cold one from last week.) @light-for-the-world.org @lichtfuerdiewelt.bsky.social
In leadership we focus on vision, strategy, fighting daily challenges. We often forget what really counts. (A summer photo of our lovely Vienna staff, not a foggy cold one from last week.) @light-for-the-world.org @lichtfuerdiewelt.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
What makes work special? No-brainer: It's the people!
In leadership we focus on vision, strategy, fighting daily challenges. We often forget what really counts. (A summer photo of our lovely Vienna staff, not a foggy cold one from last week.) @light-for-the-world.org @lichtfuerdiewelt.bsky.social
In leadership we focus on vision, strategy, fighting daily challenges. We often forget what really counts. (A summer photo of our lovely Vienna staff, not a foggy cold one from last week.) @light-for-the-world.org @lichtfuerdiewelt.bsky.social
Vienna ♥️ (The city I was born in and partly grew up in.)
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Vienna ♥️ (The city I was born in and partly grew up in.)
2025 is a gift of memoirs (to myself). Just finishing Arundhati Roy and next up… 🤩 📚
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
2025 is a gift of memoirs (to myself). Just finishing Arundhati Roy and next up… 🤩 📚
Always lovely to be back in London. Photos of beautiful pubs are more interesting than meeting photos. 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Always lovely to be back in London. Photos of beautiful pubs are more interesting than meeting photos. 🤩
Another worthwhile read in. These lines in the end… via @economist.com www.economist.com/middle-east-... mt @cgdev.org @charlesjkenny.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Another worthwhile read in. These lines in the end… via @economist.com www.economist.com/middle-east-... mt @cgdev.org @charlesjkenny.bsky.social
Thanks for keeping this space more real @bsky.app 🤣 www.economist.com/business/202... via @economist.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Thanks for keeping this space more real @bsky.app 🤣 www.economist.com/business/202... via @economist.com
A 3-day deep-dive in Accra into our We Can Work program, which helps young women and men with disabilities train for and engage in dignified and fulfilling work. So great to see disability inclusion advisors and faciltators (who have lived experience) in action. @light-for-the-world.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A 3-day deep-dive in Accra into our We Can Work program, which helps young women and men with disabilities train for and engage in dignified and fulfilling work. So great to see disability inclusion advisors and faciltators (who have lived experience) in action. @light-for-the-world.org
Always integrity.
For whoever needs to (re)read this in these times: katribertram.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/l...
For whoever needs to (re)read this in these times: katribertram.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/l...
October 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Always integrity.
For whoever needs to (re)read this in these times: katribertram.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/l...
For whoever needs to (re)read this in these times: katribertram.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/l...
Heading off to Accra to catch some of those "reset" vibes. 😉
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Heading off to Accra to catch some of those "reset" vibes. 😉
Felix Stein asks an interesting question about what “responsibility“ (part of the #WHS2025 tagline) means. We often refer to the more technocratic “accountability“, but should also include the term “complicity“. (I’ll have to think about this more…)
October 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Felix Stein asks an interesting question about what “responsibility“ (part of the #WHS2025 tagline) means. We often refer to the more technocratic “accountability“, but should also include the term “complicity“. (I’ll have to think about this more…)
Victoria Saint kicks off an interactive panel on the war on empathy and abolition of health as a social right, reminding us that #globalhealth is intrinsically political and increasingly politicized.
October 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Victoria Saint kicks off an interactive panel on the war on empathy and abolition of health as a social right, reminding us that #globalhealth is intrinsically political and increasingly politicized.
How do you fight the far right (in #globalhealth)? @profsophieharman.bsky.social
1) Don’t punch down (tell the public their concerns are stupid)
2) Don’t self-censor 😶
3) Get our own house in order (don’t exploit women’s stories, unpaid health and care work, and ignore harassment)
1) Don’t punch down (tell the public their concerns are stupid)
2) Don’t self-censor 😶
3) Get our own house in order (don’t exploit women’s stories, unpaid health and care work, and ignore harassment)
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
How do you fight the far right (in #globalhealth)? @profsophieharman.bsky.social
1) Don’t punch down (tell the public their concerns are stupid)
2) Don’t self-censor 😶
3) Get our own house in order (don’t exploit women’s stories, unpaid health and care work, and ignore harassment)
1) Don’t punch down (tell the public their concerns are stupid)
2) Don’t self-censor 😶
3) Get our own house in order (don’t exploit women’s stories, unpaid health and care work, and ignore harassment)
Many important #globalhealth discussions are not happening at #WHS2025. How is the far right using women’s health and rights to construct new narratives, systems and inequities? @profsophieharman.bsky.social 🔥
October 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Many important #globalhealth discussions are not happening at #WHS2025. How is the far right using women’s health and rights to construct new narratives, systems and inequities? @profsophieharman.bsky.social 🔥
Quite a few more #globalhealth organizations have joined Bluesky. I keep a list, feel free to use to follow and engage more here 👇
October 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Quite a few more #globalhealth organizations have joined Bluesky. I keep a list, feel free to use to follow and engage more here 👇
Why has @light-for-the-world.org joined @who.int‘s Disability Health Equity Initiative - and why do #disability services have to take place at primary care level and in communities? A few remarks from @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social. #WHS2025
October 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Why has @light-for-the-world.org joined @who.int‘s Disability Health Equity Initiative - and why do #disability services have to take place at primary care level and in communities? A few remarks from @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social. #WHS2025
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
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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
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
October 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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
See you in Berlin Sunday onwards, #globalhealth gang. #WHS2025
October 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
See you in Berlin Sunday onwards, #globalhealth gang. #WHS2025
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
October 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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
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.
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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.
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 😢).
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 😢).
September 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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 😢).
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 😢).