The Development Policy Forum (DPF) of the Brussels based Friends of Europe think tank together with the EU-wide policy journal Europe’s World has launched a special publication devoted to the subject of the global health policy in the EU. Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Chair of the Global Health Europe Task Force, was asked to contribute to […]
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Health diplomacy for the 21st century News coverage of last week’s meeting of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) missed the new sense of purpose and willingness of member states to address politically complex issues head-on and work towards acceptable compromises in the interest of global health. This was exemplified in the […]
A Lancet Commission recently presented a report on the education of health professionals in the future. Of the 20 members of the Commission only one is from Europe. This may reflect the limited contributions of Europe in previous reforms of professional training. Further development of education is now necessary in view of new challenges to […]
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For the ordinary citizen, health is a major concern. This is true in countries at all different income levels. Obviously, society at large sets many of the conditions for maintaining health, with an increasingly complex background. In Europe values of equity, solidarity and access to quality health-care are important components of this back-ground. Europe, being […]
Last week the Permanent Missions to the UN in Geneva of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) held a seminar to explore the current challenges and long-term solutions to the issue of falsified and substandard medicines. Whatever you call them, (and the overlooked nuances between definitions is partly the problem), the issue of “counterfeit”, falsified, […]
On 16 August 2010, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took time out of her busy schedule to speak about the Obama administration’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) to faculty and students at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). With so many crises in the world, what was a Secretary of State doing […]
In her blog article “Rethinking the mission of medical schools”, Jemma Weymouth summarizes a recent debate which asks whether US medical schools are producing the health workforce that America needs. The recent study that sparked this debate did so by ranking US medical schools in an innovative and highly provocative way: on the extent to which they accomplish […]
For those who expected that the baton would be passed from G8 to G20, that wider engagement of middle income countries would herald a human rights based approach to health and development and that global governance would be transformed, this Chatham House meeting brought a useful dose of realism. G8 will remain an important focus […]
Despite rumours to the contrary, last week’s G8 meeting in Muskoka, Canada confirmed to the world that this highly influential club of powerful countries plus the EU has no intention of being phased out in the near future. While their influence on global economic affairs has been eclipsed by the G20, the G8 will remain […]
In a presentation delivered at the June 2010 “Global Health: Together we can make it” conference in Brussels, Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and Chair of the Global Health Europe Task Force, summarized the key challenges that have to be tackled in order to improve global […]