The Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute in Geneva is offering an intensive five-day course on Global Health Diplomacy. The course is offered in response to an increasing demand for new skills, as health moves beyond its purely technical realm to become an ever more critical element in foreign policy, security policy and trade […]
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Global Health Governance was one of the key topics during last year’s European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG). The EHFG is the leading health policy event in the EU and it provides a major platform for decision-makers from public health & health care. The official congress summary has now been published and is available online. During […]
The following text is an excerpt of a well-informed article on the future of the Millennium Development Goals process, published by the Brookings Institution. The [Millenium Development] goals will expire on December 31, 2015, and the debate over what should come next is now in full swing. This year, a high-level UN panel, co-chaired by […]
A new book on Global Health Diplomacy, edited by Ilona Kickbusch, Graham Lister, Michaela Told and Nick Drager, has recently been published. The book sets out defining principles for global health diplomacy and examines the current agenda of the field as well as relationships between the different diplomatic areas. Featured topics include: The legal basis […]
This week the United Nationals Environment Programm (UNEP) successfully concluded a series of high-level multilateral negotiations to address the global threat posed to health and the environment by mercury. The text of a legally binding Treaty was finalized this week and is expected to be signed by over over 140 countries. In summary, the treaty […]
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About Global Health Europe
Global Health Europe is a community that promotes synergy between the policy spheres of public health, foreign policy, development, and research for health. Our aim is to improve global health governance through a more coordinated, coherent, consistent and committed European engagement. Through Global Health Europe events, publications and online discussions, policy communities that have not […]
Global Health Europe a organized a discussion meeting on “Research for Health and Sustainable Development” at this year’s World Health Summit. The meeting, held on October 23rd, 2012, emphasized that meeting people’s aspirations for health and health equity required a special kind of symbiosis between policy, research and practice.Taking this vision of a unified effort […]
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The Eurozone Crisis and Global Health
Global Health Europe and the Global Health Working Group of the British International Studies Association organized a discussion meeting on “Beyond the Eurozone Crisis: Europe and the New Realities for Global Health”. The meeting, held on 27 September 2012, was hosted at the European Commission Representation (Europe House, London) and was co-sponsored by the UK’s […]
On October 03-04, Maastricht University and Global Health Europe jointly hosted a forum on global health governance at the 15th European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG). The EHFG is the leading health policy event in the EU and it provides a major platform for decision-makers in public health & health care. The forum contributed to the […]
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A policy brief on US global health diplomacy
The United States government recently announced its intention to create an “Office of Global Health Diplomacy” at its State Department. As Josh Michaud and Jen Kates from the Kaiser Family Foundation point out in their policy brief, this elevates, at least structurally, the role of diplomacy in U.S. global health efforts.The compiled information provides useful […]