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Conference Overview
The conference 'Global Health: Political and practical challenges for foreign policy' will explore global health policy as it intersects with the global political process.
This major international conference is organized in collaboration with the European Council on Global Health.
Global health needs global cooperation
Health has become emblematic of the blurring between the traditional realms of foreign and domestic policy. A new disease emerges, on average, every year, and the number of infectious diseases that have developed resistance to available treatments is growing. Non communicable diseases, once thought to be rich countries' problems, are now major killers in low income countries. The growing interconnections and interdependence between societies and countries brought about by the process of economic globalisation have raised the issue of health firmly onto the international agenda and is demanding new levels of inter-disciplinary and intra-governmental coordination.
Building on a major, multi-year grant from the British Department of Health, this conference will launch the new Chatham House Centre on Global Health and Foreign Policy and explore the inter-linkages between the goals of improving standards of health worldwide and of raising levels of international security and stability
Interactive moderated sessions with panel and audience participation will help to get the best out of our high profile delegates and discussants. The conference will debate new ideas for policy and practice that integrate global health objectives with foreign policy goals across governments and government departments, specialist international organisations, the private sector and the NGO community.
Registration
Register now for this international conference, and join top level policymakers and leading experts in debate about global health policy.
The Chatham House Rule
To enable as open a debate as possible, this conference will be held under the Chatham House Rule.