Mark Dybul was named executive director at the organisation's 56th board meeting on 28 October.(The Global Fund)

🪃Mark Dybul makes a comeback as new Global Fund chief. The American physician will return to the organisation early next year after previously serving as executive director from 2013 to 2017. He will succeed Peter Sands at a time of significant challenges for global health and the funding landscape.

🌍Climate change is a 'global health emergency' and the harms are accelerating, Lancet report warns. Authors of the annual Lancet Countdown Report call on the WHO and the United Nations to give the climate crisis a formal emergency designation, which would require mandatory state response.

🎗UNAids board rejects ‘sunsetting’, opting instead for transformation. The organisation’s board pushed back on the cost-cutting plan that was part of UN80 reform initiative. Co-sponsoring UN agencies and the World Bank would assist UNAids – whose global staff count was halved since last year – in technical areas.

💸Widening gap between aid, development needs threatens global security: Stockholm Peace Institute. In a report released Tuesday, researchers at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said official development assistance funding needs could reach as much as $326 billion in 2028, depending on developments related to armed conflicts, natural disasters, and other factors.

🎤36 countries to compete in Eurovision 2027 as Ireland, Netherlands stay out over Israel. The 71st edition of the contest, taking place in the Bulgarian city of Burgas in ​May, will welcome one particpant more than last year, including newcomer Canada. Spain, Iceland and Slovenia’s public broadcasters, which boycotted last year’s event, have until December to confirm.