Dr. Soji Adeyi

Presenting "Global Health in Practice," hot off the press! Thanking all who made it possible. May it enable the vision of a better future. #GlobalHealth #EndNeodependency #Policy #Pandemic #Finance #investing Now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and World Scientific.

On the case for Regional Development Goals. Available here: rdcu.be/e6Bad

New!! The case for Regional Development Goals (RDGs): Unmet aspirations of #SDGs, breakdowns in global cooperation, erratic ODA cuts & coercive nationalism show the need to think & act differently. We posit that countries would be better served by #RDGs. nature.com/articles/s4436…

Delighted to share our new piece on rational #transition to #financing self-reliance in LIC/MIC #healthsystems! Thx @EdwineBarasa @just_nonvignon @JaneChuma

#Airpollution silently kills 8M people each year.But #cleanair gets less than 1% of aid.If acted upon timely,it could save 2M lives,add $2.4T to the global economy by 2040. Read The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2025, 👉 bit.ly/4gXEAjm @CleanAirFund @Jane_Burston

@RayHudson @CBSSports @SiriusXMFC Thank you for the fun memories! 🥂

Very sad; today I retire from @CBSSports & @SiriusXMFC.Thankyou all for sharing so many magesteeerial memories,wherein the beautiful game & players,beguiled & bewildered us.Sincere thanks to everyone I worked with;you inspired me. To everyone out there,I love you & I`ll miss you.

Saluting @davidnabarro - my professor, mentor, and friend, who passed away last week. An original in global health, he left a superb legacy. Thank you, David, for your encouragement, kindness, and catalytic mentoring. Godspeed, my friend, and Rest In Peace.

On point, @DonaldKaberuka! development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

@DevTodayJournal @gavi @HealthPolicyW @NorwayInGeneva @camisto @KStoreng @CKyobutungi @IlonaKickbusch @asoucat @sridhartweet @krishna_u @LawrenceGostin @gavi has done good things. Like @GlobalFund, it has also done something terrible: fostering LMICs' dependence on donors (govts & private sector potentates) ==> the #GlobalHealth policy equivalent of encouraging ruinous addiction. Need Sunset Strategy. @FCDOGovUK @gatesfoundation

.@Gavi's dwindling path to $9b replenishment: 3 govts + Gates account for 65% of $30b in resources since 2000. US and UK are cutting support, Norway can hardly close the gap. Unspent billions of $ from COVAX will soften the blow. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

@MSuzman There is a better way. Here: genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/time-for-sun…

I am deeply disturbed by news reports that the U.S. Administration is considering withdrawing its support for Gavi. If true, and if Congress allows this to happen, the impacts will be devastating, including possibility of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of preventable deaths, especially among mothers and children. We are going to do everything possible to convince the Administration and the Congress to reverse these actions if true.

@gavi Time For Sunset Strategy? Global Health After GAVI & The Global Fund genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/time-for-sun…

#USA support for @Gavi is vital. With US support, we can save over 8 million lives over the next 5 years and give millions of children a better chance at a healthy, prosperous future. But investing in Gavi brings other benefits for our world and the American people. Here’s why:

Wealthy countries & @gatesfoundation should publicly state whether they are for/ against sunsetting @gavi & @GlobalFund over an explicit transition period. @FilesGeneva @BillGates @FCDOGovUK @_AfricanUnion @vonderleyen @SecRubio @devex @DevTodayJournal genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/time-for-sun…

“Bold leadership is needed. This is an opportunity for Africa to build resilient arrangements for self-sufficient financing for healthcare.” Clear & forward-looking piece, thanks! @ckyobutungi, @seyeabimbola, @DrEmeruemJnr

Is @GAVIalliance forever? Gavi should replenish for exit - and publish its “Sunset Strategy” to wind down by 2030. Also @GlobalFund. @devex @LancetGH @GlobalHealthBMJ @PLOSGPH @WHO @BillGates @CKyobutungi @seyeabimbola @geoffreyyork @raj_devex @FCDOGovUK

These upheavals in #globalhealth financing present opportunities for self-liberation from dependence — if LMIC leaders rise to the occasion. Thanks @raj_devex, @devex, for the discussion.

@GarryAslanyan @TDRnews Thanks, @GarryAslanyan. It was great to meet you in person!

Chance encounter! 📷 Ran into former guest @SojiAdeyi on a flight. A perfect time to revisit Soji’s episode—the spark for our latest episode! E44 👉 tinyurl.com/GHM-E44 Soji's episode 👉 tinyurl.com/GHM-E33 Check out Soji's latest article! 👉 tinyurl.com/Olusoji-Article

We just posted SUCH an excellent piece on the @PLOSGPH blog, Speaking of Medicine and Health: Curing the Discontents of Global Health by @SojiAdeyi speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/03/04/cur…

Overhauling & reinventing #globalhealth require building on fresh thinking & nodes of policy wisdom, especially at the country & regional levels. @DevTodayJournal @devex @geoffreyyork @richardhorton1 @HelenClarkNZ @FCDOGovUK @noradno @bill_easterly @BillGates @Prof_Yadav_SCM

#GlobalHealth must address 4 tensions: Platitudes vs rigorous overhaul of @WHO; Rejecting vs venerating the “Lusaka Agenda”; Subsidiarity vs hypercentralization; & Coddling vs honesty on debt service. speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/03/04/cur… @paimadhu @CKyobutungi @raj_devex @keithmartinmd

@JeffBezos Mr. Bezos, research shows that the “free market” is a myth. Market failures abound. See theguardian.com/education/2002…. “Adam Smith's invisible hand - the idea that free markets lead to efficiency as if guided by unseen forces - is invisible, at least in part, because it is not there.”

I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job. I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity. I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction. I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void. Jeff

Might a different approach be more meaningful and durable? A time-bound transition from dependence on donors to self-financed health services in LMICs is overdue. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…