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Geneva Health Files in 2025

100+

Editions

Published in 2025. Original analyses, Breaking Stories, Guest Essays & More.We provide information as a resource for our diverse readership of policy-makers, global health experts, the private sector, civil society organizations and academia.

30%

Increase

In our subscription revenues, reflecting a good product market fit and a demand for our services.

60,000

Monthly Page Views

The platform recorded more than 60,000 monthly page views, indicating strong user interest and engagement. We now have 7,000+ readers in 150 countries.

Geopolitics

& Global Health

We actively reported on how foreign policy unfolded in global health: costing lives, impacting institutions and upending the field.

Tracking

The Shifts in Global Health Diplomacy

We captured the changing dynamics in global health negotiations on the new Pandemic Agreement, and on the Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing System, by providing insights and actionable information.

Proudly International

Because Multilateralism Matters

We will continue to provide comprehensive, inter-disciplinary reporting comprising the technical details and the big picture in a way that shines light on power and politics in global health.

Milestones Timeline

January

Made our very first hire for business development

March

Undertook extensive mapping and segmentation of audience, and launched a new institutional outreach strategy

May

Published our second book: On the Negotiations of the Amendments to International Health Regulations

August

Launch of GHF Plus: A new quarterly premium offering for our core supporters

November

Became a part of the Global News Gaps Project

Reflections From The Founder

Some years are unforgiving.
As 2025 etches into history, it will always be a poignant reminder on the turbulence in global health and the consequent impact on the most vulnerable communities across the world. And perhaps, the worst is yet to come.
Like others, we did what we could do to understand, examine and report on the multidimensional impact of geopolitics in global health. We consistently tracked the impact of opportunistic foreign policy on global health, and published more than a 100 editions – each a carefully crafted reported piece with comprehensive analysis with on-the-ground reporting.
Geneva Health Files is the only Global Health Journalism initiative that is built on a reader-funded model. I am grateful for the support of our readers from 150 countries. We also want to become the first journalistic initiative focused on global health, to be commercially viable on the strength of reader-funded support. We are not there yet.
We are ready for 2026 to break new ground.

Sincerely,

Founder & Publisher, Geneva Health Files

Our Efforts This Year

1st January 2025 onwards

Foreign Policy As It Unfolds in Global Health

We reported on the impact of geopolitics on global health policy-making.

2nd Through 2025

Record Readership

We registered more than 60,000+ monthly page views on our deeply reported stories, analyses and guest essays.

3rd December 2025

An Increase in Subscription Revenues

We witnessed a 30% jump in subscription revenues year-on-year, on the back of consistent and comprehensive reporting.

4th Through 2025

A Focus on Business Development

For the first time in five years, we spent the most for business development including by making our first hire in Switzerland. We also expanded our board engagement, and efforts on communications and overall strategy

Impact Story

IMPACT 01

Greater Accountability in Global Health

Consistent scrutiny on global health policy-making: whether it is tracking the interests and politics in the pandemic treaty negotiations at the World Health Organization, or reporting on global health financing.

Through 2025

IMPACT 02

News You Can Use

International diplomacy is an unequal field. By providing accurate, fact-based reporting, we served many countries, in a difficult and tumultuous year for multilateralism. Emerged as an influential source of information and a tool for negotiators and diplomats in Geneva working on key global health negotiations.

Through 2025

IMPACT 03

Educational Role of Journalism

By providing workshops on technical policy discussions in Geneva, we increased public engagement with global health policy-making in a year that has seen unprecedented attacks on science and an increase in disinformation.

Through 2025

What Readers Have To Say:

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Our Mission in 2025

Information is Power & Multilateralism Matters

Reporting on Foreign Policy as it Unfolded in Global Health

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Our Ambition for 2026

  • To Become Fully Sustainable Based on Reader Support

    To consolidate our strategic goals on increasing reader outreach and support, by expanding marketing and promotions

  • Deepen Global Health Coverage:

    Hire additional reporting resources for continued in-depth and investigative journalistic projects on under-reported topics in global health.

  • To improve engagement

    Build on existing and new formats to provide greater value to our readers.

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Our work over five years

2024

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Our work in 2024

We established two separate boards to guide our operations.

A three member editorial board, and a five member advisory board.

We also published our first book:

The TRIPS Waiver Negotiations at the World Trade Organization: When Intellectual Property Trumped Global Health. [ISBN: 9782970162728, September 2024]

2023

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Our work in 2023

We were a part of the International Center for Journalist New Business Hub Program and won grants to work on business strategy.

2022

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Our work on 2022

We won a grant from the Open Society Foundations to report on global health negotiations at the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization, in the aftermath of COVID-19.

2021

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Our work on 2021

We established a paywall for our newsletter to monetize our actionable content.

Launched our signature podcasts, introduced the annual Geneva Heath Files Fellowship Program.

2020

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Our work in 2020

We began self-publishing in April 2020, joined the City University of New York’s Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program and received The European Cross-Border Journalism Grants to report on COVID-19

Why Geneva Health
Files Exists

Our Mission

Advancing accountability in international health policy-making through independent and critical journalism. We seek to improve public engagement in global health policy-making.
We are on the ground, right in the hustle and getting deep into political dynamics and technical issues, providing an unbiased read.

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Our USP

Geneva is the capital of global health where public and private interests collide to influence international health policy. Yet there is very little scrutiny on these technical – and yet also highly political – processes.
Our journalism sheds light on opaque decision-making process, reveals interests and informs countries to take better decisions for public health

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Our Role

We report on the power and politics in global health examining these linkages.
Have crafted an inter-disciplinary approach that looks at global health from the lens of science, trade, politics, governance and diplomacy.

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What We Offer

Actionable information for negotiators, diplomats & global health experts.
We provide, not only exclusive information, but also sharp insights, with depth and detail.
We have built an engaged community of interested readers and experts.

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The People Behind Geneva Health Files

Some of Our Board Members

Peter Erdelyi

Co-Founder, Center for Sustainable Media, GHF Advisory Board

Nick Mathiason

Founder, Finance Uncovered, GHF Advisory Board

Tatyana Tsukanova

Entrepreneurship Expert, GHF Advisory Board

Garry Aslanyan

Executive Producer, Global Health Matters Podcast, GHF Editorial Board

Some of Our Team Members

Carvalho Bianca

Writer. Brazil

Nishant Sirohi

Lawyer & Writer, India

Julia Dötzer

Business Development Associate

Vineeth Penmetsa

Writer & Lawyer, India

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