Global Health Programme

The Global Health Programme (GHP) is the Graduate Institute’s research programme on Global Health Governance and Diplomacy.

The Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies was established in spring 2008 as one of the first of its kind in an institute devoted to international relations and development. It reflects the wider trend in both the practice and the analysis of global health which pays increasing attention to the links between health, foreign policy, trade and development. It builds capacity by engaging in research, knowledge translation and diffusion, as well as by conducting executive trainings in global health diplomacy for and with major stakeholders, particularly those present in Geneva.

The Global Health Programme aims at being a leading research centre on health as a global governance challenge and a centre of excellence in global health diplomacy worldwide. The GHP draws upon the political support of global policy leaders and reflects on the policy perspectives opened by the Oslo Declaration 2007 on Global Health and Foreign Policy and its subsequent UN Resolutions. It sets agendas in global health governance and diplomacy, both at European and international level. The programme has also developed partnerships across the regions with a wide-range of actors and its strength to work inter-disciplinarily is an important feature of the programme.

Its activities focus on two pillars, namely global health governance and global health diplomacy, which inform each other: The academic analysis of challenges and shifts in global health governance and global governance for health contribute to the capacity building of decision-makers and representative from governments, international organisations, global health initiatives and other stakeholders in global governance for health, such as civil society, foundations, private sector, platforms and alliances. The monitoring of key international heath negotiations will define, among others, the research agenda of the GHP. 

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• Paulo Buss advocates a new governance that promotes global health - Interview [pdf]
• Advancing the Global Health Agenda - article by Professor Ilona Kickbusch in UN Chronicle, December 2011.
• Global Health Diplomacy Book Series, Edited by Ilona Kickbusch and Thomas E. Novotny. This book series will present a series of scholary writings to provide a possible focus for future education, training, research, and service in global health diploamcy for the 21st century. Vol.1. Innovative Health Partnerships - The Diplomacy of Diversity by Daniel Low-Beer (Ed.) & Vol.2. Negotiating and Navigating Global Health - Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy by Ellen Rosskam and Ilona Kickbusch (Eds.) now available.
• 5th High-Level Symposium on Global Health Diplomacy: Ten Years after the Doha Declaration, 23 November 2011. Full information available online.
• Interview with Professor Ilona Kickbusch about the Health in all Policies approach. Related videos from World Conference on Social Determinants of Health, WHO. 
• Call for proposals for visiting researchers at the Brocher Centre in 2013: Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of recent medical research and new medical technologies. Submission by 20 January 2012. [pdf]

LL.M. degree in Global Health Law and International Institutions - Collaboration between the Graduate Institute and Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.
More information on this programme and details on how to apply.

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  Global Health TV reports from the 64th World Health Assembly where new diplomatic processess are being developed in a time when diplomats are getting more involved in health issues and health experts become more concerned with foreign policy. You can see interviews with Prof. David Heymann, Chair of the UK Health Protection Agency, Prof. Paoulo Buss, Director of FioCruz Center for Global Health in Brazil, Prof. Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the Global Health Programme in Geneva, and Mr. Haik Nikogosian, Head of the Convention Secretariat FCTC/WHO.
  
  
  

   

   

   

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  Master of Laws in Global Health Law and International Institutions - Collaboration between the Graduate Institute and Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.More information on this programme and details on how to apply.International Health Law Course at the Graduate Institute, Geneva.
  

  • Global Health Diplomacy [video]