Thanks to Neil for reporting on Carlos Umaña's speech on nuclear war. Neil was also kind enough to mention the editorial we published in over 150 journals in 2023 on nuclear risk and health (https://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r881). Note that there was a second editorial this year, urging WHO to resume its mandate to report on nuclear weapons and health - a mandate that expired five years ago (and the last WHO report on the subject was in 1995). The second editorial ("End nuclear weapons, before they end us" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-025-03067-5) was also published in over 120 journals, and was among the contributing factors that led countries to request WHO to resume its mandate by a resolution adopted in the last World Health Assembly (https://healthpolicy-watch.news/who-gets-mandate-to-update-its-work-on-h...).
Chris Zielinski
Centre for Global Health, University of Winchester, UK and
President, World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)
Blogs; http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com and http://ziggytheblue.tumblr.com
Publications: http://www.researchgate.net and https://winchester.academia.edu/ChrisZielinski/
HIFA profile: Chris Zielinski: As a Visiting Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Global Health, University of Winchester, Chris leads the Partnerships in Health Information (Phi) programme, which supports knowledge development and brokers healthcare information exchanges of all kinds. He is President of the World Association of Medical Editors. Chris has held senior positions in publishing and knowledge management with WHO in Brazzaville, Geneva, Cairo and New Delhi, with FAO in Rome, ILO in Geneva, and UNIDO in Vienna. He served on WHO's Ethical Review Committee, and was an originator of the African Health Observatory. He also spent three years in London as Chief Executive of the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society. Chris has been a director of the UK Copyright Licensing Agency, Educational Recording Agency, and International Association of Audiovisual Writers and Directors. He has served on the boards of several NGOs and ethics groupings (information and computer ethics and bioethics). chris AT chriszielinski.com. His publications are at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris-Zielinski and https://winchester.academia.edu/ChrisZielinski/ and his blogs are http://ziggytheblue.wordrpress.com and https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ziggytheblue