PhD and global health wonk. Principal Consultant @MatahariGlobal. Internationalist & humanist. 🇲🇾🇵🇸 🌍
Leeds, England
Joined September 2009
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A colleague (@AyalMeskeremAk) recently raised how the Global North narrative of vaccine hesitancy in Africa affected Vx discourse in Africa. Last year I addressed this at a @devex event: Why was there such a preoccupation about vaccine hesitancy in Africa but not in Europe/US? 👇🏽
Still getting quite high-caliber connection requests on Twitter. Global health folks, please note that I do not post anymore on Twitter/X due to its ownership and the owner’s policies. Please head to my profile on BlueSky for technical content.
Appalling. Israel exists.
It’s Palestine that is being systematically destroyed. Does Palestine have the right to exist?
👀 SCOOP: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner told Politico staff Monday that those uncomfortable with the company's core values — including support for Israel's right to exist — should "work for other companies."
@matthewkassel reports: ji.news/427jz
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Deeply concerning that the negotiator will not attend the Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing Negotiations. Anyone who has been involved in negotiations knows the important discussions happen in the hallways and over tea. Hoping @DrDzul can rethink this decision.
Critical WHO negotiations on the Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing system will soon begin in Geneva.
Developing countries will be present, but Malaysia won’t send a delegation.
Why @KKMPutrajaya @DrDzul? Who will safeguard Malaysia’s interests & sovereignty?
The Board of Peace has no democratic legitimacy.
Speaking to @NPR, Mary Robinson warns that President Trump’s 'Board of Peace' is a dangerous attempt to undermine the UN Security Council and concentrate power in his own hands.
🎧 Listen in full: npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-568…
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Two truths can be acknowledged: 1) that this was a great speech; 2) Carney very recently propped up the actions of the state of Israel.
Imperialists are suddenly feeling the effects on the boomerang very acutely. Time will tell whether this morality applies more uniformly.
This is the best speech by a world leader that I have read in a very long time. More later, but for now, just read what @MarkJCarney has to say. Rhetorically, at least, he has met the geopolitical moment.
paulwells.substack.com/p/the…
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How anyone can still support Israel is beyond me
This Palestinian woman posted on Facebook to honor her husband, killed by Israel 30 years ago while resisting.
Hours later, heavily armed forces stormed her home, abused and arrested her—then soldiers took photos to flaunt their “bravery.”
This is Israel.‼️
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I have to say the sight of Western leaders fumbling at the prospect of an additional colonisation of Greenland is remarkable to see.
They enabled (and continue enabling) colonisation in Gaza by Israel, and of course all of our countries from Malaysia to Nigeria to DRC.
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The majority of Europe stood by as Israel massacred 80,000 Palestinians. Some helped finance the genocide. Europe’s response to Venezuela has been pathetic. I’m not entirely sure the response to the annexation of Greenland will be any better.
I don’t comment much on Malaysian politics anymore because I vote predominantly in the UK, but I have to say the entire discourse around @yeobeeyin’s statement is immature & laughable. People are allowed to have opinions, especially about criminals who have embezzled state funds.
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Having the third most powerful passport in the world means nothing until and unless @MalaysiaMFA can get the scum that is border control @Schiphol to understand what that means vis-a-vis condescending interrogations at the border.
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A pleasure chairing this stellar panel on governance, equity, & political commitment in public health emergencies in SE Asia. Key insights incl. the need to account for the biological weapons convention, national sovereignty over genetic sequence data & regional vax coordination.
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Great to hear journalists Al-Jazeera unpacking the trends in American media, including that they are reporting that bombing has stopped in Gaza. At least 20 people have been killed by bombing in Gaza today, so this is obviously deliberately/negligently inaccurate.
Why does @Keir_Starmer not understand that Judaism is not the same as Zionism? Pro-Palestinian protests are to object the massacres of more than 200,000 Palestinians, and there are plenty of Jewish people attending.
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Without a single doubt, we are witnessing some of the most heinous and barbaric genocidal practices that the world has ever seen.
On 15 September, Israeli forces fired upon our clearly marked water truck in Gaza City.
This attack cannot be dismissed as an error. It was a deliberate attempt to sabotage water distribution to civilians:
msf.org/msf-condemns-israeli…
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Sanctions are one of the reasons why the United States objected to the terms “timely and unfettered access” to pandemic products in the Pandemic Treaty negotiations.
This is deeply shocking and disturbing.
US and EU sanctions — mostly imposed on developing countries — are associated with 400,000–1,000,000 deaths *every single year*.
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In February 2025 of this year I gave a talk at @UMDLaw and I said that American health will get worse. As we see CDC directors resign and RFK continue to peddle dangerous information - everything we feared is materialising.
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