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Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board to focus on global health and climate change

On March 13, 2020 Bill Gates announced he has stepped down from the public board of directors of Microsoft to “dedicate more time to philanthropic priorities including global health and development, education, and climate change”. He also stepped down from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. board where he has been since 2004 [1, 2] On June 27, 2008, Gates transitioned out of a day-to-day role at Microsoft "to spend more time on his work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He served as Microsoft’s chairman of the board until February 4, 2014" [3]

G7 health ministers conduct ‘Leopard Pox’ simulation

The German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) hosted the meeting of the health ministers of the G7 countries on May 19 to 20, 2022, in Berlin. The ministers agreed a pact for pandemic readiness that will focus on collaborative surveillance and a predictable rapid response to be better prepared in the future. They also pledged to increase their mandatory contributions to the World Health Organization by 50% by 2030-2031. [1] The scenario submitted to the ministers of health predicted the spread of a dangerous smallpox virus quickly transmitted by a human after being bitten by a leopard. The details were disclosed by Bild on the basis of the documents they analyzed. The fake disease is called ‘Leopard Pox’. [2, 3]

NIH terminates EcoHealth Alliance funding of Wuhan lab

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) informed EcoHealth Alliance, on August 19, 2022, that it has terminated subgrant R01AI110964, which is used to fund the laboratory in Wuhan, China located where the first COVID-19 cases were identified in 2019. EcoHealth Alliance failed "to meet award terms and conditions requiring provision of records to NIH upon request,” including failing to provide the "lab notebooks and original files from the research conducted at the Wuhan lab" on bat coronaviruses. EcoHealth Alliance still receives funding from NIH for other projects.

UN: Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depletion signed

On September 15, 1987 the United Nations members adopted the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, referred to as a "landmark multilateral environmental agreement" which regulates the production and consumption of nearly 100 man-made chemicals referred to as ozone depleting substances (ODS). "The Montreal Protocol ...emerged as a model for future efforts, based as it was on strong science, globally agreed-upon standards, and aggressive action by relevant industries...Relying on the formal international system alone to defend the environment risks a tragedy of the global commons: collective inaction because no country has much of an incentive to favor conservation except when national interests coincide." writes political scientist and head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in 2002 - the drivers of "One Health". [2] On November 9, 1987, 24 days later, NASA's director Dr. James E. Hansen testifies as a "private citizen" to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resource, responding to a Nov 2, 1987 letter requesting he provide his "views on the likely pace and regional implications of the greenhouse effect and global climate change..." [1]

Congress to Strengthen Global Health led by Germany

On May 1, 2019, the leaders of Germany's two conservative parties, the CDU and the CSU, pledged to stick together after a year of public discord, then 7 days later on May 8, 2019, at a "top-class congress", the CDU/CSU parliamentary group met in the Bundestag with invited guests to discuss the topic "Strengthening global health - implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goal". In attendance was German Chancellor Angela Merkel, WHO's director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and members of the Global Health subcommittee represented by Gates Foundation, Christian Drosten, Wellcome Trust's Jeremy Farrar and the 2017 founder of the Center for Global Health Prof. Dr. Clarissa Prazeres da Costa. [1, 2, 3, 4] [NOTES] Germany has taken on a pioneering lead role in "developing a strategy for global health, and the World Health Organization (WHO) is working on an action plan." "With its G20 presidency, Germany has put global health on the international agenda."..."I think it’s fair to say that Germany is one of WHO’s greatest supporters and best friends." Tedros said. Tedros will present the Global Health The Plan to Nations General Assembly in September 2019! At the meeting Ilona Kickbusch warned of "thinking in national units or in..> READ MORE

WHO “Pandemic Treaty” vs Amendments to Existing International Health Regulations

The COVID-19 pandemic has given the global community an "opportunity" to "justify" making drastic changes to international legislation to "prevent" a pandemic from ever happening again. The timeline below tracks two World Health Organisation's proposed pandemic legislative "responses", to the…

20 May 2022Globalism, Pandemic-Response, Public Health

US declares a Public Health Emergency

On January 31, 2020 in the US, "[a]s a result of confirmed cases of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)", HHS secretary Alex Azar determined "that a public health emergency (PHE) exists and has existed since January 27, 2020, nationwide". "This U.S. public health emergency declaration follows a declaration by the World Health Organization that spread of the virus constituted a public health emergency of international concern." [2, 3] This declaration sets up justification for Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) of drugs where "the FDA Commissioner may allow medical countermeasures to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by [biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear agents], when there are no adequate, approved and available alternatives." [4] In January 2017, FDA finalized the guidance to explain the FDA's general recommendations and procedures applicable to EUA for industry and stakeholders. January 31, 2020 - declared public health emergency under the Public Health Service Act March 13, 2020 - two national emergency declarations under both the Stafford Act and the National Emergencies Act (NEA) March 18, 2020 - invoked emergency powers via Executive Order under the Defense Production Act March 19, 2020 - Trump named the Federal..> READ MORE

Wildlife Trust is founded. Predecessor to EcoHealth Alliance

The non-profit, international conservation organisation called Wildlife Trust is founded in 1971 by British naturalist, author and television personality Gerald M. Durrell. It purpose is to empower conservation scientists that are “dedicated to protecting wildlife and safeguarding human and animal health." In a press release dated September 21, 2010, the Wildlife Trust rebrands itself as EcoHealth Alliance. "The new branding puts health and medicine center stage with wildlife conservation taking a back seat." EcoHealth Alliance pioneered Conservation Medicine and their mission is to address the link between "wildlife, livestock, human health and survival". Their work includes research into emerging infectious diseases. [3] They are positioning themselves to be on “the forefront of informing the public, businesses, and the scientific community about emerging diseases, including potential pandemics.” [1] The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been working with "EcoHealth Alliance" since 2009 to institute a new global emerging pandemic threat program called PREDICT (to research emerging diseases among high-risk wildlife and in high-risk countries) based on EcoHealth Alliance's disease-outbreak hotspots map. [2]

First G20 Health Ministers – MARS pandemic simulation

Each year G20 Presidancy is allocated to a new country, on December 1, 2016 Germany was awarded the role, which during it's G20 Presidency the German Government, led by Angela Merkel, leveraged "health" for the first time on G20 agendas by creating the Health Ministers track. On May 19-20, 2017, at the invitation of Federal Minister of Health Hermann Gröhe, the first G20 Health Ministers meeting took place in Berlin, Germany. The purpose to focus on combating global health hazards and be better prepared for future health crises such as pandemics. At that meeting the participants participated in a respiratory virus pandemic health emergency simulation called MARS (Mountain Associated Respiratory Syndrome). The exercise focused on multilateral coordination, with WHO’s crisis response mechanisms and the International Health Regulations (IHR). This meeting marks the start of "Global Health" becoming a constant on the G20 agenda. Following this 2017 meeting The Center for Global Health was founded in by Prof. Andrea Winkler and Prof. Clarissa Prazeres da Costa. Germany is leading the way with global health policy, their "goal is that research results are quickly translated into meaningful and effective political measures. This is the only way we can achieve the goals for..> READ MORE

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John O’Looney

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