Health diplomacy
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Health Diplomacy is a field of diplomacy that brings together the priorities of global health and foreign affairs. It brings together a variety of participants in areas that affect public health all around the globe. This can be done only through joint policy health solutions and improving global health.
Its main goals, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) are:
– better health security and population health;
– improved relations between states and a commitment of a wide range of actors to work together to improve health; and
– achievement of outcomes that are deemed fair and support the goals of reducing poverty and increasing equity.
The ongoing, and pandemics in recent history are a good example that shows the importance of cooperation through health diplomacy in resolving issues on a global level.
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COVID-19 and Diplomacy, Diplomatic theory and practice, Health diplomacy, Public diplomacy
An influential article of 2014 noted that health attachés were appointed shortly after the Second World War and were thereafter assigned by \'a growing number of countries [...] to work in embassies in countries of...
[WebDebate #37 summary] Multilateral diplomacy in times of COVID-19
09 April 2020
Conflict and crisis, COVID-19 and Diplomacy, Diplomatic theory and practice, Health diplomacy
In our monthly WebDebate, which is organised in the context of the International Forum on Diplomatic Training (IFDT), we looked at Multilateral diplomacy in times of COVID-19. When we observe the responses to the COVI...
Training and courses
Events
Resources
2014
From sovereignty to solidarity: A renewed concept of global health for an era of complex interdependence
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2014
A New Governance Space for Health
Global Health Action is an international journal publishing research in the field of global health, addressing transnational health and policy issues. ... Read more...
