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🎈 When do citizens tolerate democratic violations? Lessons from Hungary’s pandemic emergency 

December 17, 2025

The EU’s AI gamble with healthcare

November 5, 2025

Can UN high-level meetings on health deliver real change?

November 3, 2025

🌈 Abortion rights and the cost of compromise

October 8, 2025

Japan on the frontlines of a global health crisis: antimicrobial resistance

September 15, 2025
July 30, 2025

BRICS and the rewriting of global health diplomacy in a post-US era

Lakshmy Ramakrishnan As the US retreats from global health leadership, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan examines how BRICS is stepping up as a key player. With the Pandemic Agreement still under negotiation. This gives BRICS countries an opportunity to promote a more equitable, inclusive approach to global health diplomacy in a shifting geopolitical landscape Read more
April 9, 2025

The politics of eating: why facts and social norms don't shift diets

Carolin Zorell Have you ever tried to change your diet based on new information, perhaps after reading about the environmental benefits of plant-based eating or the health risks associated with processed meat –– only to find yourself slipping back into old habits? If so, you are not alone write Carolin Zorell, Nicklas Neuman and Ansung Kim Read more
August 14, 2024

Emergency room abortions in the US: doctors’ objections trump patients’ lives

Payton Gannon It is now two years since the fall of Roe v. Wade. How has this affected healthcare for pregnant Americans? Payton Gannon and Danielle Pullan explain the most recent Supreme Court cases, and contextualise them within the broader global discussion on conscientious objection and religion in healthcare Read more
June 21, 2023

AI health in the Nordic countries: privatisation, unmet promises, and limited participation

Jason Tucker Are recent technological developments in artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionary, calamitous, something in between? Are they inevitable, spontaneous, unpredictable? Jason Tucker examines states who actively shape developments in AI health. The challenge is bringing the public back into decision-making in these developments Read more
March 10, 2023

Pandemic Europe three years on: insights from political science

Veronica Anghel It is three years since the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, on 11 March 2020. Veronica Anghel conducts a retrospective analysis of the impact of the health crisis, from all social scientific perspectives. Did political science rise to the challenge? Read more

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