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Matthew Robinson is a policy and advocacy officer at GHTC who leads the coalition's multilateral advocacy work.

Blog posts written by Matthew

Total of 22 blog posts

May 18, 2016

WHO's doing WHA for the 69th time next week!

This coming week the “who’s who” of the global health community (as well as some much more modest global health advocates such as your humble author) will make the annual trek to Geneva, Switzerland, for the 69th World Health Assembly (WHA), where World Health Organization (WHO) member states will collectively decide WHO’s plans for the coming year.

March 6, 2016

Better together? Five takeaways on the proposal for a WHO pooled fund

Last week, GHTC convened a panel of experts to dissect and discuss a proposal for pooled funding for global health research and development (R&D).

February 15, 2016

WHO says “no thanks” to the private sector

There’s an old adage about political negotiating: “You need to be in the room when things are happening if you want to have an impact.”

January 21, 2016

WHO’s Doing What?

With the New Year underway, GHTC is looking forward to a busy spring of multilateral organization meetings—with a number of them impacting global health research and development (R&D). First on the agenda is the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB) meeting on January 25–30 in Geneva, where the EB will receive updates on a number of topics and make important decisions, particularly around how to proceed with the next steps of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (CEWG) process.