Arnaud Goulliart

Advancing women’s #health research is essential not only to strengthening the quality and integrity of medical science — but also to unlocking meaningful innovation in #healthcare. When we close the gaps in research, we gain a more complete understanding of human biology. This fuels the development of smarter, more inclusive health solutions — ultimately improving outcomes for everyone. Through the World Economic Forum’s Global Alliance for Women’s Health, we are promoting policies that catalyze robust, evidence-based innovation. By embedding #women’s needs into the core of scientific inquiry and product development, we can drive forward a new era of health #innovation — one that works for all. Now is the time to move from commitment to action — and ensure women’s health is no longer overlooked, but prioritized at the heart of global health innovation. Better science leads to better innovation — and better outcomes for every patient, everywhere. Read more from Amira Ghouaibi, Head of the Global Alliance for Women's Health and Sanjana Bhardwaj, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: https://lnkd.in/emuhuisr

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A world-class biomedical research laboratory sits in an unassuming recycled shipping container in a neighborhood in one of the global epicenters of tuberculosis. Scientists and technicians in the lab — owned and operated by Socios En Salud, the Peruvian branch of the international health care delivery nonprofit Partners In Health — work to improve TB diagnosis for the sick people in their neighborhood, improve treatment for TB and other diseases worldwide, and deepen scientific understanding. Those collaborations have helped build a biobank with hundreds of thousands of sputum and blood samples, tens of thousands of cultures of purified samples of tuberculosis from different patients, and more than 5,000 complete genome sequences of the bacteria that cause TB. The samples are linked to electronic medical records that include valuable, anonymized patient information, such as how people responded to TB drugs; what other illnesses they had; and social, economic, and environmental factors that researchers suspect play a role in determining who gets sick. “Those samples, linked to robust clinical and demographic data in a searchable database, are an unequaled, irreplicable resource for the future of science and for the fight against tuberculosis,” said Megan Murray, an HMS professor of global health. Much of Murray’s work has been done in collaboration with Socios En Salud and other branches of PIH. The lab has supported efforts to find better treatments and diagnostic tools for TB and to deepen understanding of how the disease infects and sickens people and develops resistance to antibiotics. But reductions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, USAID, and other U.S. agencies that support science and global health may now make it impossible to keep the lab running or to maintain the freezers that preserve the samples. “If we lose those freezers and can’t preserve the archive they contain, we’re never going to get it back. There isn’t anything like it anywhere in the world,” Murray said. The team has spent 20 years of hard work building an irreplaceable resource for the world, Murray said. “Research is a huge part of our mission to help find solutions for the most vulnerable populations, not just in our own backyard but everywhere,” said Leonid Lecca, executive director of Socios En Salud and HMS lecturer on global health and social medicine.

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📣 The revised guidance document on the Master UDI-DI assignment solution for #ContactLenses, once endorsed by the Medical Device Coordination Group (#MDCG), is now published on the European Commission EU Health and Food Safety DG #SANTE webpages on #Guidance https://lnkd.in/eE87y9Dr and on #MasterUDIDI for #HighlyIndividualisedDevices https://lnkd.in/g3GnHV_4 as "MDCG 2024-14 Rev. 1 | Guidance on the implementation of the Master UDI-DI solution for contact lenses | Revision 1 – August 2025" https://lnkd.in/eCGeS6Mk. 👉 It is updated according to the recent adoption of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/788 https://lnkd.in/eexhF7hC postponing by 1 year, until 9 November 2026, the date of application. #EUHealth #HealthUnion #OneHealth #EU #Regulations #MedicalDevices #MDR #InVitroDiagnosticMedicalDevices #IVDR #UniqueDeviceIdentifier #UDI

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Just launched! #EuroHePP – a new interactive toolkit from European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) designed to support efforts to eliminate hepatitis B and C in prisons across Europe. It offers practical guidance for: ✅ Conducting a health needs assessment ✅ Strategy development ✅ Service implementation ✅ Monitoring & evaluation Explore the toolkit and take action toward hepatitis elimination: https://lnkd.in/dRqigfpC #HepatitisAwareness #PublicHealth #PrisonHealthcare

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Supporting healthy ageing through primary health care💪 Policymakers, health leaders and partners from across the South-East European Health Network (SEEHN) came together in Bar, Montenegro, with the support of WHO, to inform WHO/Europe’s forthcoming strategy "Ageing is Living: Promoting a Lifetime of Health and Well-being (2026–2030)." The strategy will prioritize prevention, transform care ecosystems, foster enabling environments and challenge ageism. A recurring theme throughout the discussions was the central role of primary health care (PHC) in enabling these ambitions. Working groups emphasized that strong PHC systems can: 🔹 Support older populations through person-centred, continuum of care 🔹 Prevent ill health and promote well-being across the life course 🔹 Enable reforms in long-term care by integrating services closer to communities 🔹 Contribute to financially sustainable health systems in ageing societies Organized with SEEHN and supported by the Central European Initiative (CEI), the workshop reflects WHO/Europe’s commitment to working hand-in-hand with countries to ensure ageing is seen not as a burden, but as an opportunity for stronger, more sustainable health systems. #PHC4UHC #HealthForAll Central European Initiative - CEI South Eastern Europe Health Network Natasha Azzopardi Muscat Melitta Jakab GianMatteo Apuzzo Yongjie Yon

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