Course Highlights

Deliberations on Intellectual Property Rights, The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the International Health Regulations, the creation of new finance mechanisms such as the Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria or UNITAID, as well as the response to SARS and Avian Flu are cases in point and will provide the real-life backdrop to the discussions. The programme will also discuss approaches to policy coherence at the national level, such as “national global health strategies” and at the level of regional organisations.

Past speakers have included:

• Ambassador Sigrun Mogedal, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway
• Mr Luvuyo Ndimeni, South African Mission to the UN
• Mr Simon Bland, UK Mission to the UN
• Dr Thea Emmerling, European Commission Delegation in Geneva
• Dr Patrizia Carlevaro, Eli Lilly
• Dr Regina Moench-Pfanner, GAIN
• Ms Alma Viviana Perez, Colombian Mission Geneva
• Mr Robert Weibel, CENAD

Course topics include:

• Introduction to global health, global health diplomacy and global health governance
• Health and foreign policy
• Coordination at the national and regional level for global health
• The actors, stakeholders and interest in global health governance and diplomacy
• The dynamics of global health negotiations
• Key methods, processes, instruments and mechanisms in global health diplomacy
• Cross cutting issues: Understanding the widening content of diplomacy and the key interface with health

Teaching methodologies:

• Guest speaker panels
• Lectures by internationally-renowned experts and negotiators
• Case studies
• Working groups
• Role play (training in negotiation skills)
• Visits to international organisations

The course has been designed to be highly participatory and to draw on the national and international professional experiences of participants.