Global Health EuropeThe Lancet recently released a special collection of papers exploring the social, political, and economic issues around the global movement towards universal health care coverage. The series provides much needed input for tackling the challenge of universal health care coverage – a key objective of the European global health community. Click here for an overview […]
According to OECD Health Data 2012, growth in health spending slowed or fell in real terms in 2010 in almost all OECD countries, reversing a long-term trend of rapid increases. While government health spending tended to be maintained at the start of the economic crisis, cuts in spending really began to take effect in 2010. […]
In 2000, the UN laid out 8 goals to make the world better by reducing poverty and disease with a deadline of 2015. As that deadline approaches, Jamie Drummond of ONE.org runs down the surprising successes of the 8 Millennium Development Goals, and suggests a crowdsourced reboot for the next 15 years. Jamie Drummond co-founded […]
Despite extraordinary successive increases in international aid, we have not achieved desired gains in health equity. There has been a tendency to focus on vertical programmes and specific diseases, rather than supporting countries to develop sustainable health financing systems that would lead to universal coverage. Despite the statements agreed to in the Paris and Accra […]
The UN High Level meeting on non communicable diseases (NCDs) and the resulting Political Declaration created as many questions as they answered. Notably in relation to decisions about NCD targets, indicators and monitoring and the form that a global platform to oversee NCD strategy and monitoring will take. This session at the Geneva Health Forum […]
The European Forum Alpbach and the Institute of Social Medicine, Center for Public Health at the Medical University of Vienna present the Summer School “European Health Care and Social Systems in Transition”, which will take lace in Alpbach/Austria from 16 to 23 August, 2012. The Summer School will be organized as part of the “European […]
Current investments in Research & Development (R&D) and innovation for meeting health needs in developing countries are not sufficient. The existing model of R&D and innovation is not adequate when it comes to discovering and developing medicines and other health technologies which in particular address the needs of markets with low purchasing power. These issues […]
Abstract submissions for the World Health Summit open April 2012. The M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres and Medical Universities is inviting submissions for the 4th WHS. The overall theme of the conference is ‘Research for Health and Sustainable Development.’ Abstracts being submitted up to 15th June 2012. For more information see here.
This paper explores the EU role in global health post the Lisbon Treaty. It was presented by S. Battams at the Lisboan Workshop on EU external representation after Lisbon, 21-22 February, Clingendael Institute, The Hague. See the paper here.
This working paper from November 2011 explores the potential and makes recommendations for Europe’s role in research and innovation to improve global health. It highlights the need for coherence between Horizon 2020 and other key EU policies, including that on the EU’s role in global health, and the potential for global health research to play […]