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David Bell

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David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and Director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, WA, USA.

Hantavirus, the WHO, and the conflicts in weighing mortality

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Yesterday, almost 2,000 people, mostly young children, died of malaria because they could not access effective and relatively cheap treatment quickly enough. About 4,000 people...

The Pandemic Agreement fails again

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Finalization of the much-heralded Pandemic Agreement, the flagship of the World Health Organization’s pandemic agenda, has just been postponed again after another failure to...

The behemoth of global corruption is an extension of ourselves

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Hard times. Emerging from an apparently engineered pandemic, now in another war for ephemeral reasons, a resultant economic crisis that is exacerbating unmanageable debt,...

Nipah Virus and the new public health order

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A large outbreak of hysteria occurred in the media over the past week, regarding a small Nipah virus outbreak in eastern India. ‘Hysteria’ is the...

Universal Basic Income: Make slavery great again

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I once worked in communities supported mainly through a form of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Most money was received from the government for no (or...

Update on International Health Regulation amendments

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Much has been written on the amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), which most countries are making themselves subject to after July 19th...

Defunding Gavi: An important step toward decolonisation?

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The primary reason people in wealthy countries live longer than those in poorer countries is that they have better sanitation (e.g. clean water, hygiene),...

To die fishing

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Saving the Dreamers from the Sea. A couple of decades ago in the state of Victoria, Australia, the public health fraternity considered the advisability of...

We have yet to be drawn and quartered

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History is a series of variations on basic feudalism, with limited exceptions during which serfs threw off the worst of their shackles for some...

The new enthusiasm for slaughter

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What War Means My mother once told me how my father still woke up screaming in the night years after I was born, decades after...

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