CSU 95/2011: CREATING A GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY WORTHY OF THE NAME

Thursday, 17th of March 2011

Development Policy Forum (DPF)

Available online PDF [36p.] at: http://bit.ly/hr8Je6

“….The Development Policy Forum (DPF) is a partnership between the Brussels based think-tank Friends of Europe, the United Nations, the World Bank, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), with the support of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and in association with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Development and Relations with ACP States.

The aims of the DPF are to:

• raise awareness of development issues;

• promote debate on topical and interlinked political, economic and social matters;

• bring together political authorities, members of national, international and European development organisations, commentators and business representatives to discuss and debate development questions…”

“…….The health policy landscape has changed dramatically over the last decade. Health has become globalised, with more and more governments recognising that health is a global issue and not just a domestic problem; global health has a profound and growing influence on national public health policies and is also becoming a foreign policy priority. Globalisation means increasingly that a nation’s security and prosperity reflects and relies on events abroad: poverty, food shortages and climate change in the developing world are all factors that threaten international security. By the same token, disease and poor health undermine economic growth…”

Table of Contents

Summary.

How global health policy can improve the lives of many people in the developing world

Andris Piebalgs. p

Global health challenges stretch beyond the Millennium Development Goals

Margaret Chan.

It’s still too soon to pass judgment on global health aid

Chunling Lu.

Global health policy lacks common purpose and direction

Ilona Kickbusch.

National interests must give way to the greater goal of global health

Simon Wright.

Managing mutual dependence will be the biggest challenge of the 21st century

Gorik Ooms

Restoring the human factor to the global health equation

Bernd Appelt.

What we need is a new approach to healthcare education

Göran Bondjers

Why equity in global health is not a Utopian dream

Armando De Negri.

Six lessons for global health governance from Indonesia’s avian flu crisis

Olivier Charnoz and Paul Forster.

Connecting global health with other parts of development strategy

Armin H. Fidler

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