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Highlights of opening address of Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi Director-General Designate, World Trade Organization. Chulalongkorn University, February 2001. @wto.org @who.int
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Network for Monitoring the Impact of Globalization and TRIPS on Access to Medicines, Meeting Report, 19-21 February 2001 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand @who.int
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Draft PABS Annex text - Onscreen version as at 15:30 CET on Friday, 7 November 2025. #IGWG4 @who.int
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Draft Programme of Work (PoW) for #IGWG4 apps.who.int/gb/IGWG/pdf_... The public sessions will take place next Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 16:45 to 17:15 CET. The extended session with relevant stakeholders (not public) will take place next Wednesday from 11:30 to 13:00 CET. @who.int
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Agenda for @who.int #EB158
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Draft Concept Note: IGWG November interactive focused informal dialogues @who.int
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
@who.int Member State information session on the 2025 Prioritization and Realignment process: projected Organizational Impact - 19 Novembe 2025 apps.who.int/gb/mspi/pdf_...
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Yannis Natsis, Director, European Social Insurance Platform: "Carrots come at a very high price....how do you negotiate w/ a monopolist?" @politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Sandra Gallina, Director General, DG SANTE, European Commission to Helen Collis, Health Editor, POLITICO, "I read you every morning." @hcollis.bsky.social @politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Purple skies in Geneva.
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
At the @msf.fr Doha+5 event in Geneva on 14 November 2006. Picture here with me are Adrian Otten (WTO), Dalindyebo Shabalala (CIEL), @ellenthoen.bsky.social (MSF at this point in time), and Sangeeta Shashikant (TWN). To her left is Guilherme Patriota (Brazil).
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Different vintages of the century. @upenn.edu
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The latest PABS text (Onscreen version as at 15:30 CET on Friday, 7 November 2025) has 2 references to "licences", 3 references to "licensing" and 10 references to "licenses". @who.int
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
WTO AGREEMENTS & PUBLIC HEALTH, A joint study by the WHO and the WTO Secretariat (2002). "One such initiative is the Global Fund proposed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dedicated to the battle against HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases." www.wto.org/english/res_... @wto.org @who.int
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
A Turning Point That Left Millions Behind
By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 28, 2000
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...
Plus ça change @who.int @bartongellman.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Go Eagles!
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Monday Night Football.
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
On the subject of tabletop simulations, I would recall the words of Otto Hightower: "We must play the board before us." Team 4 fresquers @unitaid.bsky.social Access Fresque June 2024.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#IGC52 Glossary of Key Terms Related to Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions @wipo.int Published on 5 November 2025. @arianna-s.bsky.social @keiwashdc.bsky.social www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/... @grahamdutfield.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I asked Gemini to render the Meghnad Badh Kavya in Old English in the style of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle but it went Beowulf on me. Still, I had fun.
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
@nytimes.com reportage from November 21, 1993: "Through two and a half quarters today, Pennyslvania's undefeated and untied season, along with the outright Ivy League championship, appeared destined to be shattered by lowly Cornell."
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Nine years ago in @politico.eu Health experts: Global programs 'at risk' under Trump
-- By Helen Collis
11/9/16, 3:11 PM CET
@hcollis.bsky.social @who.int @gavi.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM