On Universal Health Coverage Day 2020, Sophie Witter considers the COVID-19 pandemic and the global background of widespread ongoing conflict and shocks which continue to affect millions of the world’s poorest people.

The BMJ recently published a Collection on Women’s Health and Gender Inequalities. Nick Hooton reflects on some of the key messages shared at the launch meeting for this new collection, at a session of the recent World Health Summit 2020.

As part of HSR2020, Dr Haja Wurie of the ReBUILD for Resilience consortium and Dr Amuda Baba spoke on the role of community health workers in fragile and conflict-affected settings – video of the session is available

As part of HSR2020, Joanna Raven spoke on her experiences of running global health research programmes, especially in post-conflict contexts as in ReBUILD – her slides are available to view.

‘Invest in mental health’ is the theme for this year’s mental health day. The impact of COVID-19 has triggered real challenges for mental health and well-being around the world, especially for frontline health workers.