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Rethinking Global Health
Political and practical challenges from foreign and security policy
10-11 March 2009 | Chatham House, London
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Conference Overview
The conference 'Rethinking Global Health: Political and practical challenges from foreign and security 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 are 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 Security and explore the inter-linkages between the goals of improving standards of health worldwide and of raising levels of international security and stability. The conference debates conclusions which will feed into the new Centre's near to mid-term work programme.
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.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown KCMG PC
Minister of State for Africa, Asia and UN
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security
This conference will launch the new Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security established to explore global health policy as it intersects with the global political process.