Author profile: Mukesh Kapila

Mukesh Kapila CBE is Professor Emeritus of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester. He is a former Director at the World Health Organization and the United Nations.

Global Health Beyond Covid-19

Mukesh Kapila • Dec 4 2023 • Student Features

The gaps and divisions created by the Covid-19 pandemic have profoundly affected international relations because everything about its origins, spread and aftermath has been contentious.

Opinion – Keep an Eye on Djibouti

Mukesh Kapila • Nov 3 2023 • Articles

To fulfil its geographical destiny, Djibouti needs the international community to come together to help it become a decent, democratic, developed nation.

Resolving the Rohingya Crisis Requires Justice in Myanmar and Solidarity with Bangladesh

Mukesh Kapila • Jul 13 2023 • Articles

There are enough resources to go around and the world’s dispossessed should not be put into undignified competition with each other.

Opinion – The World Economic Forum: Looking Down from the Heights of Davos

Mukesh Kapila • Jan 26 2023 • Articles

A new type of locally-connected globalisation is necessary to tackle the world’s many problems.

Covid-19’s Impact on Global Health

Mukesh Kapila • Apr 14 2022 • Student Features

The gaps and divisions created by the Covid-19 pandemic have profoundly affected international relations because everything about the origins and spread of the novel coronavirus has been contentious.

Global Health

Mukesh Kapila • Apr 12 2022 • Online resources

The idea of global health connects an individual’s private concern over their own well-being to the shared necessity to secure the health of everyone, everywhere.

Opinion – Are Peacemakers Really Blessed?

Mukesh Kapila • Nov 4 2021 • Articles

Premature awards to Henry Kissinger, Aung San Suu Kyi and Abiy Ahmed indicate that ‘God’ and the Nobel Committee don’t always keep the same standards.

Opinion – What Climate ‘Code Red’ Means for Africa

Mukesh Kapila • Sep 28 2021 • Articles

The relentless progression of climate change poses an existentialist threat to African peoples. It needs a Pan-African effort for which the African Union is the logical body.

If We Fail in Health We Fail Overall

Mukesh Kapila • Aug 9 2016 • Articles

The World Humanitarian Summit recognised the special role of emergency health work: if we fail in health, we fail in the overall humanitarian endeavor.

Remembering Darfur: The World’s Longest Running Genocide

Mukesh Kapila • Jan 27 2016 • Articles

Lack of personal responsibility is why we failed on Darfur, and the continuing lack of accountability is why we are likely to fail again elsewhere

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