[Comment] Offline: Why Munich missed the mark

Nuclear proliferation. Artificial intelligence. Energy. Populism. Venezuela. Russia. Gaza. Ukraine. Iran. Sudan. These were some of the themes of this year's Munich Security Conference, the grown-up person's Davos. Where was health? Absent. The closest one got was a single roundtable on biosecurity. The Chief Executive Officer of the Gates Foundation was there, but speaking on the debt crisis. I know that some global health advocates were attending. But they were not on the main programme. Don’t you find that quite remarkable, given that only a few years ago over 18 million people worldwide died during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic? How quickly the memories of our supposedly smartest security brains fade.