News and Updates

March 20, 2026

Press release: NHS workers warn: cuts to global health funding risks infectious disease affecting the UK

New polling shows a majority (59%) of NHS staff think that cutting overseas aid would increase the risk of infectious disease affecting the UK.

February 4, 2026

Launching Healthy World Secure Britain

Healthy World Secure Britain is a new campaign working with healthcare professionals and health organisations across the UK to highlight a simple truth: global health and domestic health are inseparable.

March 29, 2026

MailOnline: Travel bug fears: Doctors urge Brits jetting off abroad over Easter to be extra vigilant amid rise in holidaymakers returning with diseases such as gonorrhoea, malaria and measles

MailOnline reporter Tom Lawrence writes: Doctors have urged holidaymakers to be aware of outbreaks of diseases across the world after Brits have returned home with malaria and measles and even STDs like gonorrhoea.

March 28, 2026

The i: Vaccination warning for holidaymakers

i News journalist Lewis Smith writes: A range of diseases, including TB, malaria and Mpox, are on the rise after being brought to Britain by incoming travellers, putting extra pressure on the NHS, warned a coalition of medics and campaigners.

March 25, 2026

The Guardian: Cuts to overseas aid will ultimately hurt Britain

Dr Arshad Rizvi writes: When infectious diseases rise globally, the effects inevitably reach general practice. Preventing disease at source is one of the smartest investments we can make to protect patients in Britain.

March 19, 2026

MailOnline: Meningitis outbreak spreads to London college and Morrisons depot as medics admit they are mystified by speed of spread and cases rise to 27

Dr Arshad Rizvi, a London GP with a special interest in global health and infectious disease, said the current meningitis outbreak has 'brought into sharp focus the dangers of infectious diseases and how we must be ever vigilant'.

Daily Express: Urgent warning issued over five ‘devastating’ diseases surging in UK

February 6, 2026

Campaign updates

Press release: NHS workers warn: cuts to global health funding risks infectious disease affecting the UK

Launching Healthy World Secure Britain

In the media

MailOnline: Travel bug fears: Doctors urge Brits jetting off abroad over Easter to be extra vigilant amid rise in holidaymakers returning with diseases such as gonorrhoea, malaria and measles

The i: Vaccination warning for holidaymakers

The Guardian: Cuts to overseas aid will ultimately hurt Britain

MailOnline: Meningitis outbreak spreads to London college and Morrisons depot as medics admit they are mystified by speed of spread and cases rise to 27

Daily Express: Urgent warning issued over five ‘devastating’ diseases surging in UK

Daily Mirror: EXCLUSIVE: Victorian disease warning as young people in UK left 'unable to walk'

Daily Star: Victorian disease warning as young people in UK left 'unable to walk'