He’s absolutely correct. And he is also right that pretending otherwise will make it worse.

Investing in surveillance, diagnostics and vaccine development now will pay dividends

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Prevent, Protect, Cooperate: Why the World Needs the Global Pandemic Agreement. This is our ⁦Tony Blair Institute for Global Change⁩ take on next week in Geneva at #WHA77 with ⁦Ines Hassan⁩ institute.global/insights/polit…

Kudos to Lord Butler of Brockwell who said at a lunch in April there would be a July election. Everyone around the table - including me - told him he was wrong...

In a rapidly changing world, how can political leaders and policy makers lead on harnessing AI’s potential while also mitigating the risks?

We were delighted to host Julia Gillard, Marc Warner & Dr Claire Bloomfield in partnership with Wellcome to discuss how government can seize

We welcome the proposal of the National Data Trust to enable the NHS to safely share anonymised patient data with trusted researchers.

Access to representative health data is key to realising how innovation can accelerate discoveries and drug development.💊

By harnessing the power of NHS data, we can accelerate health-care innovation.

A National Data Trust would enable the #NHS to safely share anonymised data with trusted researchers. This would unlock new diagnostics, treatments and care, not to mention £2 billion for the wider

Interesting piece in Financial Times by Martin Wolf about what needs to change as we all start living longer - something we are thinking about at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change on importance of preventative health
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Remember the gloves and PPE, the treatment tents and rules not to shake hands? Not from Covid but from Ebola back a decade ago, which killed 11,000 in West Africa. On today’s The Global Story, I spoke to naomi grimley⁩ & ⁦Anne Soy⁩. Please listen! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

It was great to head back to BBC News (World) to talk about the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 on The Global Story. Together with Mark Lowen and Anne Soy we look at the big lessons from an epidemic which killed 11,000 people. Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
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I’m back in the (broadcasting) house. Great to be recording a podcast on global health with my old colleague ⁦Mark Lowen⁩ this time as a guest from ⁦Tony Blair Institute for Global Change⁩ - out next week…

Tulip Fever at Guildford Castle.

The UK is now spending over 50% of the £9.9bn bilateral aid budget within the UK.

Up from 6% in 2013.

Ian Mitchell ONE

Hospital infections kill hundreds of thousands in sub-Saharan Africa, research shows telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

'Polls show RFK Jr would draw most of his support from Biden. The fact that Tim Mellon, a big Trump donor, has given him $20m backs that up. You wouldn't waste that kind of cash on a hopeless cause without a larger aim.' Me on the potential Nader of 2024 ft.com/content/7d7076…

The UK has a growth problem. Innovation is the way forward.

In the AI era, we need a reimagined industrial strategy to speed up the development, adoption & diffusion of innovation.

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Jeegar Kakkad Eleni & I set out how: bit.ly/3VsW1zt 1/6

Advances in diagnostics and targeted treatments are improving the outlook for patients with lung cancer bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

'We marvel at Russians, switched off and immobilised while their government commits horrors. That could be us very soon.' Simon Kuper on the profound consequences of people no longer reading the news.

No news is bad news - on.ft.com/3IJo1Y2 via Financial Times

Jeremy Hunt hints at October election

Says that doing a spending review after the election before next April 'if the general election is in October, that will mean it's very, very tight'

Jeremy Hunt suggests that the general election will be held in October

'This particular spending review has to be completed before next April. If the general election is in October that will mean it's very very tight'

He says that if there's another fiscal event before the

Wes Streeting says he’s willing to have a fight over better use of data in NHS in order to modernise the service - “it’s mission critical” #WiredHealth