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The 2025 Berlin Global Disability Summit: Responding to the escalating crisis of disability related to war
In 2025, conflicts across Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, and beyond created disability at a scale unseen in decades. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project recorded over 240,000 conflict-related deaths from December 2024 to November 2025. In Gaza alone, 4,800 documented limb amputations occurred since October 2023, with ten children losing one or both legs every day. More than 21,000 Palestinian children acquired disabilities during the conflict. In Ukraine, over 2,10
Nicholas Mellor
Dec 31, 20257 min read


How Clinical Research, Service Innovation, and Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration Shaped UK Veterans' Mental Health Policy
"Conflict can quickly overload healthcare systems and create challenges where traditional solutions and care pathways are simply not fit for purpose. In Ukraine and Gaza we have seen trauma on a scale that has not been witnessed for a generation. Yet even when conventional pathways can serve only a few, there is often reluctance to step away from tried and trusted approaches. What are the barriers to change? What does it take to re-imagine better solutions? How can we best na
Professor Walter Busuttil and Nicholas Mellor
Nov 26, 202510 min read


Evidence-Based Healthcare Innovation - the key role universities can play
Evidence-based approaches are essential in healthcare innovation because they ensure patient safety, optimise limited resources, and...
Amneh Alshawawbka, PhD, Mphil, Bcs (The University of Jordan) and Nicholas Mellor MA, MBA, Msc, FRGS LSN Ltd
Apr 30, 202512 min read


Beyond Physical Trauma
Integrating Mental Health Support for Child Amputees and Children with Disabilities in Post-Conflict Iraq Executive Summary Iraq's...

Dr Mohammed M Al Munibari
Apr 22, 20256 min read
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