[Comment] Four paradigm shifts to shape an agenda for global health reforms

00:00 - 16 Jan 2026

Struck by substantial funding cuts throughout 2025, the global health community stands at a crossroads.1 Notwithstanding the grave consequences of decreased international financing, this crisis offers an unprecedented chance to address the well known flaws in the current system. Although the notion that we should first stabilise and later transform the global health landscape has gained traction, it fails to recognise that the present sense of urgency is precisely what makes systemic change possible, and that those two processes should therefore happen in tandem.