(March 25, 2014)
In recognition of World TB Day 2014, please join Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez,USAID's Assistant Administrator for Global Health, in honoring champions dedicated to creating a TB-free world.
Master of Ceremonies: Kojo Nnamdi, host of WAMU's "THE KOJO NNAMDI SHOW"
TB claims a life every 18 seconds and especially effects the poor and vulnerable as well as women, children, and people living with HIV/AIDS. Yet, TB is one of the world's best buys in global health, since it can be cured with inexpensive drugs, and major innovations are on the horizon that will reduce suffering and save lives.
Luncheon hosted by UN Secretary-General with MDG Advocacy Group at the World Economic Forum
23 January 2014
With 707 days left until the target date for the Millennium Development Goals, the Secretary-General, along with the two Co-chairs and several members of his MDG Advocacy Group, will participate in a luncheon discussion to accelerate progress on the MDGs focusing on girls as a critical investment. The Secretary-General and the two Co-chairs, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Prime Minster Erna Solberg of Norway, will open the programme and Hannah Godefa, a 16-year old UNICEF National Ambassador for Ethiopia and Sumaya Saluja, a member of the Global Education First Initiative’s Youth Advocacy Group, will lead an inter-generational dialogue with the Advocates. The programme will include interventions from other governments, businesses and media leaders, including Kathy Calvin, President and CEO of the UN Foundation, Tina Brown, Founder and CEO, Tina Brown Live Media. It will close with a call to action by UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson.
(Thursday January 23, 2014)
Innovations in national financing a Discussion with Ministers, Multilateral, Bilateral, Philanthropic, and Corporate Institutions
Global leaders meeting in Davos for the World Economic Forum will propose and discuss innovative ways to optimize funding for health programmes in developing countries.
Introduction
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird
Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of USAID and
Dr. Muhammad Yunus, UNF Board Member, Nobel Prize Laureate
Financing the Future of Global Health - Entire Session
A #2030Now Perspective on the Global Agenda
Progress in the next 15 years and beyond—including effectively setting and achieving the next set of global development goals—can’t just be left to the same old power players. Now you can actively involve people in shaping these goals, using new participatory, transparent, and bottom-up new power models.
The Center for Global Health and Development (previously known as the Center for Global Health and Diplomacy) was born out of the need to continue the progress made in global health over the past two decades. With resources increasingly scarce, global health leaders realized that leveraging the investments already made would require establishing new partnerships and reaching out beyond the global health community. In order to facilitate new partnerships, stakeholders needed a platform where they could communicate ideas and share best practices. In 2012, a group of innovative leaders including heads of state, public health professionals and diplomats came together to create such a platform: the Center for Global Health and Diplomacy (CGHD).
In 2017, CGHD recognized that the key to true sustainable global health initiatives rested on attracting private and public capital to these undertakings as reliance on grant or donor funding was insufficient to ensure the continuation of programs that millions of people had come to depend upon. CGHD therefore developed strong networks of both global health leaders, but also leaders in the public and private capital sectors and brought these disparate groups together to form partnerships that leveraged the different expertise of each to enable true sustainability. Thereafter, our center became known as the Center for Global Health and Development.
The Center for Global Health and Development fills the existing gap between global health and sustainable finance. CGHD gathers presidents, health and finance ministers, private sector companies, development banks, multi-lateral agencies, DFIs and civil society to work collectively to solve many pressing issues. CGHD provides a platform to engage various stakeholders that are indispensable to the solution.
- Our work is focused on highlighting the global health challenges facing the developing world and providing solutions to these challenges from some of the world’s best global health minds and leaders in public and private financing. We are focused on turning ideas into action and use both the publication and the roundtable forums to promote collaborations and partnerships between governments and different sectors.
- We also raise awareness of important global health issues amongst the diplomatic and other development communities ensuring that global health becomes part of the larger development discussion. We strive to incorporate the lessons of diplomacy and stress the importance of international collaboration to achieving our global health goals. We believe that only through partnership and shared sacrifice will we be able to answer many of the most difficult global health challenges.
- Lastly, CGHD leverages it diplomatic and development expertise to ensure that truly durable solutions are implemented so as to create reliable and robust health systems which translates into stable economies and societies.
The Center for Global Health and Development’s Mission is to broker, facilitate, and forge multi-sector partnerships to support ongoing and new global health efforts. We are positioned to collaborate with the public and private sectors, investors and innovators to establish relationships based on trust and mutual understanding, which then allows untapped sustainable resources to reach billions of people across the globe.
Global health issues are much too broad for any one doctor, health care worker, world leader or lab to address alone. At CGHD, we believe in a set of core principles that guide our work on a daily basis:
- Partnership and inter-disciplinary collaboration
- Open and honest dialogue
- Country ownership and stakeholder coordination
- Sustainable solutions
- Health for all
Forging Strategic Partnerships
Partnership is at the foundation of everything we do. Bridging the gap between global health and financing to address the world’s most pressing health challenges takes forging partnerships and relationships between stakeholders in all sectors.
At the Center of Global Health and Development, we work with private sector companies, governments, development financing institutions, private capital investors, development banks, donors and foundations, NGOs, UN agencies and multi-lateral groups. We act as a hub to drive discussion, find synergies, and create alignments to facilitate the necessary sustainable health and financing partnerships to create stronger, sustainable and more resilient health care ecosystems in emerging markets.
Since our establishment in 2012, the Center has worked with leaders in global health, development, private and public finance, governments and civil society. We believe that each partner brings unique perspectives, expertise and contributions to global health initiatives, which we work to align to improve the lives of millions of people in developing and emerging markets.
Some of the partners we have worked with include:
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