Patrick Fafard

@pfafard.bsky.social

Professor Emeritus/ Visiting Professor Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, University of Ottawa. Research Director, Global Strategy Lab, York University/UOttawa .

@pfafard.bsky.social

An opportunity for IR scholars to be read by people who are in the process of redesigning the institutions of global health. Their challenge is to do so with a deep understanding of both how dramatically the rules based international order has changed as well as the range of possible futures.

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⬇️ An opportunity ⬇️ to bring the insights & expertise of IR scholars to bear on challenges facing global health governance (GHG). With some notable exceptions GHG has often been neglected by IR scholars. Yet the dramatic shifts in geopolitics means the expertise of IR is essential:

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The option of a Crown corporation was available (and presumably considered) when the Agency was created. What changed? Some possibilities: A) Agency head came close to resigning B) more power is needed to break the bureaucratic and/or political logjam of military procurement C) all of the above

@matthewkavanagh.bsky.socialReposted by @pfafard.bsky.social

surreal to be working in global health as the US administration pursues bilateral deals, kills milktoast UN pandemic resolutions, and and meanwhile our health minister wants to AI to help spread misinformation about basic public health science. 🤯

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Also curious about how to interpret this #GlobalHealth funding recommendation from Canada's parliamentary standing committee on finance #FINA (found under Equity and Social Policy rather than Foreign Policy) w/ the approach of the last budget, which singled out Global Health for cuts.🤔 #Budget2026

Screenshot reading "Recommendation 36 Reaffirm its 10-Year Commitment to global health and rights by maintaining annual investments. Budget 2026 should also ensure that annual funding is allocated to sexual and reproductive health and rights programming to support access to essential services for women, girls, and LGBTIQ+ communities globally. "
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Today is Canada's Day of Truth and Reconciliation. It is not a day to celebrate. It is a day to listen. A day to recognize the costs of colonialism and capitalism.

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Congratulations to my #GSPIA colleague Costanza Musu on the publication of her trenchant analysis of the links between trafficking of looted antiquities, global crime, and international security.

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Definitely part of it. We've also compartmentalized most substance use disorder prevention and treatment outside of the conventional healthcare system, and rely too heavily on unregulated private treatment models and informal peer support.

@caulfieldtim.bsky.socialReposted by @pfafard.bsky.social

"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.

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