Key messages on Governance for Health in the 21st Century

Global Health Europe hosted two working sessions at the World Health Summit in Berlin, which focused on ways to increase global health democracy for better health outcomes, through improved systems and processes for global health governance and innovative financing strategies. Key messages across both of the ‘Democratising global health' and ‘Innovative financing mechanisms' governance sessions can be viewed here.

Global Health Europe workshop on Governance at Gastein

On the 5th October, 2011, Global Health Europe held a pre-conference workshop on global health governance at the 14th European Health Forum in Gastein (EHFG), Austria with a special focus on the reform of the World Health Organisation (WHO). The debate centred on processes for engagement within the WHO reform processes, in particular the role of civil society, organisations such as the European Union, and private industry within reform. A range of reform and general global health governance challenges were discussed, including the tensions between NGO and private interests within governance, and timely reform versus the need for adequate mechanisms to ensure democratic processes and representation. Read the full summary of the workshop here.

Global health and trade: A forum for academic, business and civil society engagement with the UK and EU policy on trade in health, agriculture and food

24 June 2011 - On the 22nd of June, the Global Health Europe organised a day long event at the Europe House in London on Global health and trade:

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Key messages from the first European Health Policy Forum

28 March 2011

The first meeting of the European Health Policy Forum was held in Andorra in mid March. WHO EURO has recently released a short video which captures the key messages from the meeting, especially relating to the development of the new European Health Policy 2020.

 

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Negotiating Health in the 21st Century: Global Health Governance in Fragile States Fourth High-Level Symposium on Global Health Diplomacy

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21 December 2010

For those of you who weren't able to attend the Fourth High-Level Symposium on Global Health Diplomacy "Negotiating Health in the 21st Century: Fragile States: Analyzing the interface of health and diplomacy", and for those who would like to watch again the interventions of the different speakers, please note that the video recordings of all interventions, Power Point presentations (when available), as well as other relevant documents from the symposium are now accessible on the Symposium webpage of the Global Health Programme.

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