Come celebrate leaders in the fight against tuberculosis!
Tuberculosis (TB) kills three people a minute, is a threat to the US, and puts health care personnel at risk. Women and children are especially vulnerable, as are people living with HIV. Yet, it is one of the world's best buys in global health, since it is usually curable with inexpensive drugs, and major innovations in TB are on the horizon that will reduce suffering and save money. In the last year the fight against TB has accelerated thanks to bold leadership.
(Tuesday May 21, 2013 from 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM CET)
- Advance the discussion around the post-MDG development framework;
- Broaden the discussion of the post-MDG framework to include the diplomatic community private sector, academics, other private donors in global health and other development stakeholders as part of an on-going consultative process.
- Begin to outline the health-related principles and goals for a post-MDG development framework.
(Tuesday May 21, 2013 from 5:00 PM CET)
Join us for a panel discussion about the evolution of how global health may evolve in addressing the health-related Millennium Development Goals and future opportunities with health diplomacy. Speakers from ministries of health, donor governments, private sector and civil society will share ideas for building collaborations to reach those in greatest need and discuss how to continue the conversation at national and regional levels once delegates have returned home.
(Sunday May 19, 2013 at 7:30 PM CET)
In a moderated discussion, ministers of health, corporate sector leaders and development partners will share their views how to accelerate the TB response in sub-Saharan Africa.
(Thursday September 26, 2013)
The Millennium Development Goals have garnered massive international support and mobilized new resources to improve conditions for the world's poorest. Much work remains to be done. We must redouble our efforts to ensure that we maintain progress while also laying the groundwork for addressing future global health challenges. And with the MDGs set to culminate in 2015, the global health community has its eye on the next wave of global health challenges, especially as the post-2015 debate moves to the country level. The 68th annual United Nations General Assembly provides a unique moment for the global health and diplomatic communities to help shape the next international development agenda.
The Catalysts for Global Health Conference is a gathering of high-level global health leaders and innovators that have been an integral part of the success of past global health efforts. As the community begins to think about global health post-2015, we need your expertise, guidance and leadership as we begin to promote the most practical and innovative solutions that save lives and improve the health of people all over the world.
Janus, the two headed Roman god, had the ability to look both forward and backward in time simultaneously. This image is symbolic as we embark on a new year. We traditionally take time to reflect on the events of the previous year and look forward to the challenges of the next. We must evaluate our successes and our shortcomings to ensure continued progress. Sometimes this process can be difficult. It is only through honest and open review of our past that we can achieve success in the future.
As we approach 2015 there is an increasing need to evaluate our progress in the global achievement of the Millennium Development goals. The common beliefs enshrined in the MGDs have not changed since their inception. The world in which we live in has changed significantly. Changes in the global economies have created new pressures to use our resources more effectively.
Accountability and transparency are fundamental to accelerating progress in global health. It allows for recognition of global health programs where we have fallen behind in our goals. It allows us to accept that some strategies may not produce the desired results and make modifications necessary to continue with our achievement of the MDGs. In 2010 shortfalls in our commitments to maternal and child health were recognized by the Muskoka Initiative for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the UN Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. In 2011, the global health community took steps to ensure that initiatives launched in 2010 led to results by creating the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Jakaye Kikwete. This Commission has assembled an accountability framework that provides an outcome based system to monitor and review actions leading to adjustment of future strategies to accelerate progress for women’s and children’s health.
The principles of accountability and transparency are not only important in maternal and child health but also in continuing the fight against infectious diseases including malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB. Review of efforts to sustain universal coverage of malaria control interventions led to the recognition of financial shortfalls. Outcome based efforts led by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and global health partners led to identification of new strategies to improve procurement strategies to support the fight for eradicating malaria. Honest and accountable review of our global health efforts can also lead to innovative thinking to address challenges as evidenced by the African Leaders Malaria Alliance’s (ALMA) plans to develop innovative new funding streams to support malaria control.
Ultimately accountability requires metrics by which we can measure successes and failures. The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries and Risk Factors data provides a new standard for quantifying global health problems. It also helps to identify the areas of greatest need in a given region.
This issue of GHD News also provides a special focus on efforts to address tuberculosis, particularly in Afghanistan. While these articles highlight the challenges of drug resistance and the success of earlier diagnosis techniques it also brings focus to the personal challenges faced by much of the world’s population. The personal costs of tuberculosis are not only measured in mortality and morbidity data but also in the ability to pursue our dreams and those of our children.
Global health challenges do not discriminate. They affect all of us. In this issue of GHD News some of the authors share their own personal experiences with potentially life threatening complications which face all mothers around the world. It is only though accountable review of our global efforts on health that we can refine our plans to create healthier futures for all.
— Joanne Manrique
- GHD Honoured the champions of global health and diplomacy in 2012 by ringing the Closing Bell of the NASDAQ
- Global Health and Diplomacy International Women's Day Luncheon Sec. Otero’s Speech
- Global Health and Diplomacy (GHD) Magazine Launches at the
World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland - Global Health & Diplomacy Magazine Shines A Spotlight on Women and Girls
Photo: Dan Thomas / GAVI Alliance
Fall 2014 Edition:
We are seeking contributions on major developments and challenges related to health and diplomacy in the Middle East. Additionally, we welcome other topics that address the challenges and success in social, cultural, economic, political and environmental health. Undoubtedly, we all have a role to play in developing effective solutions.
We would like to invite you to join the global health leaders who will be part of this edition. Please prepare a submission that reflects your experience and perspective on major challenges and opportunities in relation to issues in the Middle East.
Below are some of the topics that we plan to include in the upcoming edition. We invite you to choose one or to discuss another topic of your choice.
Featured Topics for Fall Edition
- Maternal and Child Health in conflict areas
- Health Care in Transition- the expansion of the private sector
- Malnutrition (under and over-nutrition, Vitamin A deficiencies, anemia, child stunting)
- Progress toward MDGs (at a local, national or global scale)
- Global Health and the Economy (microcredit, innovative financing and other topics)
- Access to clean, safe water and sanitation
- Immunizations successes and challenges
- Socio-cultural barriers to healthcare access
- Life expectancy, maternal and child mortality
- Urbanization and lifestyle changes (increased road traffic injuries and tobacco smoking)
- Family planning and its impact on improving children’s health
- Humanitarian crises and their effect on health
- HIV /AIDS, TB, malaria and other infectious diseases
- Non Communicable Disease (NCDs)
For more information on submitting an article please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Reminder: all articles go through a strict review process and not all will be featured in the upcoming fall edition. We are thrilled that you will be a part of this unique and exciting publication, and we thank you for your participation.
The Center for Global Health and Development (previously known as the Center for Global Health and Diplomacy) was born to provide a rare intersection where high level political figures, health care workers and leaders in both the public and private sector can share and communicate their ideas. Global Health and Development wants to ensure that each of our global health stakeholders' vision becomes a reality. Global health issues are much too broad for any one doctor, health care worker or world leader to address alone. It is only through partnership that success can be achieved.
Global Health and Development is an international hub for health and diplomacy, GHD can tap into a diversity of global health stakeholders through their work with different governments and civil society leaders.
Global Health and Diplomacy reaches presidential offices in 55 countries through its online/ print publication and its international roundtable forums.
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.
FEATURED BOARD MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUE
His Excellency Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete the former President of the United Republic of Tanzania served as the co-chair of the United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health with former Canadian Prime Minister Harper. In his more than 30 years of public service, President Kikwete served in different party, military, and government positions. He joined the Cabinet in 1988 and he held several ministerial portfolios including Minister for Finance, Minister for Water, Energy and Mineral Resources, and Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
Dr. Awa Marie Coll-Seck is the Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership. RBM is a global partnership founded in 1998 by WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, and the World Bank. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Coll-Seck was Minister of Health of the Republic of Senegal. She also served as Director at the Joint United Nations Programme for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), leading the Department of Policy, Strategy, and Research and subsequently the Department of Country and Regional Support. Dr. Coll-Seck has served for nearly 20 years as a specialist in infectious diseases in leading hospitals in Dakar, Senegal, and Lyon, France.
Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen is CEO and owner of Vestergaard Frandsen, a European company focused on achieving the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. The company operates under its own “Humanitarian Entrepreneurship” business model that has turned corporate social responsibility into its core business of creating life-saving products for the developing world. In 2009 Mikkel was appointed an economic advisor to the prime minister of his native Denmark. Vestergaard Frandsen received the 2010 Financial Times Justmeans Social Innovation Award for Most Innovative Small For-Profit Company. In 2010 Mikkel was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
