International Health CooperationA strategic field of action for the MMI Network
There is still a lack of platforms in which actors in health cooperation can critically reflect their own practices and approaches, share information and experiences, learn from each other and have an opportunity to further develop their institutional and personal skills and practices. As confirmed in the MMI Network Strategy 2021-25, this continues to be a major focus of our Network’s current activities.
With its track record of promoting knowledge sharing, mutual learning and critical self-reflection among actors in international health cooperation and global health (Kampala Initiative, CSO governance), the Medicus Mundi International Network is is well positioned and dedicated to continue and extend this role in the next years, with a set of ommunities of practice hosted by the Network, convened by Network members ready to take the lead, supported by the secretariat, and open for a broad range of interested institutions and experts/practitioners.
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Milestones
Swiss NGOs engaged in international health cooperation: How to respond to the call for decolonization?
Dear reader, Medicus Mundi Switzerland – Network Health for All mandated the authors with providing a report on how the civil society members of the Medicus Mundi Switzerland Network have taken up…
CLIMATE AND HEALTH JUSTICE
A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE HOSTED BY THE MMI NETWORK Dear colleagues, We herewith invite you to join an emerging civil society community of practice hosted by the Medicus Mundi International Network…
26-31 October 2022: How to cope with a world in crisis?
Series of MMI policy dialogues 2022 26-31 October 2022, as Zoom webinars Climate change, pandemic and war: these are huge and partly new challenges for organizations working in the field of…
31 October 2022: The project of a EU global health strategy: in whose interest will it be?
MMI policy dialogue, Monday, 31 October 2022 15.30-17.00 CEST (Zoom webinar) The Dutch Global Health Alliance (DGHA), with around twenty member organisations, was a key stakeholder in the…
17 June 2021: Health and climate justice – transformative cooperation and healthcare practice
MMI Policy Dialogue The Covid-19 pandemic and climate emergency represent converging crises and share common drivers. It is imperative that these crises are addressed in a comprehensive manner,…
16 June 2021: Health systems torn between health security and universal access priorities – implications for international cooperation?
MMI Policy Dialogue The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in the performance of essential public health functions and deepened the cracks in primary health care and equitable and…
14 June 2021: Business? As usual? Looking into the political economy of digital health and international cooperation
MMI Policy Dialogue The impact of digital technologies on healthcare and health can be beneficial, if both needs and risks are properly managed and if technologies are fully integrated in strong,…
3 November 2021: COVID-19 – A Game Changer in International Health Cooperation? MMS Symposium
MM Switzerland | The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the global health landscape. The pandemic is significantly reshaping health systems and policies and the way in which organisations…
27 April 2021: Health cooperation in the digital age. Transformative policies – transformative practice
The impact of digital technologies on health care and health can be beneficial, if both needs and risks are properly managed and if technologies are fully integrated in strong…
29 April 2021: Health cooperation in times of the climate emergency. Transformative policies – transformative practice
Climate change is already one of the greatest threats to health across the world, and organizations working in the field of international health cooperation are challenged to deal with…
Kampala, 15-16 November 2019. How to advance cooperation and solidarity within and beyond aid (Launch of the “Kampala Initiative”)
For many countries and societies struggling with access to health and health equity, aid is still a challenging reality, and this reality needs to be examined and acted on: What’s wrong…
Challenging realities of “aid”
Open discussion meeting on Thursday 30 November 2023 Assessing the vestiges of coloniality within the discourse on climate and health justice The Community of Practice on Climate and Health Justice…
KAMPALA INITIATIVE
For many countries and societies struggling with access to health and health equity, aid is still a challenging reality, and this reality needs to be examined and acted on: What’s wrong with…
Dhaka, 15-19 November 2018. The role of international health cooperation in strengthening or weakening national health policies and systems. MMI workshop at the 4th People’s Health Assembly
The Fourth People’s Health Assembly (PHA4) was hosted by the People's Health Movement (PHM) and Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) at the BRAC BDM campus in Savar, Dhaka. The People's Health Assembly As on…
Astana, 25-26 October 2018. Astana Global PHC Conference: Official side event on “International cooperation and strengthening or weakening national health policies and systems”
As part of a broader team led by the Secretariat of the International Health Partnership for UHC 2030 (UHC2030) and also including the UHC2030 Civil Society Engagement Mechanism, the MMI Network…
Health Cooperation: Its relevance, legitimacy and effectiveness as a contribution to achieving universal access to health. MMI discussion paper
This paper on health cooperation and its relevance, legitimacy and effectiveness was discussed at the MMI workshop “Health cooperation beyond aid” in Berlin, on 29 September 2016, and published…
Geneva, 26 May 2018. #AidToo: Sexual exploitation in international cooperation. Prevent, respond adequately – and most of all: address the root causes
After the scandals of sexual abuse and exploitation by staff of organizations working in humanitarian aid and development cooperation reported and discussed in early 2018, assessments and answers…
Geneva, 11 April 2018. Digital health, eHealth, mHealth: Breakthrough for public health or creating new dependency? A critical look at the current hype. Side event to the Geneva Health Forum 2018
In a satellite session to the Geneva Health Forum 2018 hosted by the Networks Medicus Mundi International and Medicus Mundi Switzerland, we looked behind the rhetoric of the Forum’s theme of…
MMI essay contest “Health cooperation beyond aid – Pathways for change”: The winner and the reader
Antwerp, 17 October 2018. In summer, the working group on Effective Health Cooperation of the Medicus Mundi International Network (MMI EHC) launched an essay contest among Network members, their…
Geneva, 27 May 2017. Health Cooperation beyond aid
International health cooperation in today’s world calls for a major renewal. We need less of the classical Official Development Aid (ODA) approach, and more of modern, second-generation, cooperation…
Berlin, 29 September 2016. Health cooperation beyond aid. MMI Network meeting
The 2016 meeting of the Medicus Mundi International Network took place in Berlin, following an invitation by our German Network member action medeor and linked with a VENRO conference on global…
Geneva, 28 May 2016. Promoting access to health in fragile contexts: What role for international cooperation?
The Network Medicus Mundi Switzerland in cooperation with the Swiss Red Cross (a member of MMS) and Cordaid organized a public side event to the General Assembly of the Medicus Mundi International…
Geneva, 21 April 2016. International health cooperation and Health Systems Strengthening. “Federal Café” debate at the Geneva Health Forum 2016
The “Federal Café” debate at the Geneva Health Forum 2016 hosted by MMI and Medicus Mundi Switzerland provided an open space for an initial debate about the demand and options for setting up…
Basel, September 6-10, 2015. How to bridge between health systems researchers and practitioners in the field of international health cooperation
The 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and international Health (ECMTIH) was organized by the Swiss TPH, a member of Medicus Mundi Switzerland, on behalf of the Federation of European…
Geneva, 23 May 2015. A luta continua! Strengthening or weakening health systems? Workshop at the Annual Assembly of MMI
"A luta continua" ("the struggle continues") was the rallying cry of the FRELIMO movement during Mozambique’s war for independence. The phrase is Portuguese but was used by FRELIMO leader Samora…
Cape Town, 3 October 2014. An ideal match! Successfully connecting NGO practice and Health Systems Research
The MMI Network participated in the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town, South Africa, from 30 September to 3 October 2014, with a session on "An ideal match! Successfully…
Questions and answers on Universal Health Coverage… and some more comments and open questions. MMI discussion paper
Basel, 13 August 2013. Like many other actors in global health, the Medicus Mundi International Network (MMI) is overwhelmed by the attention given to the concept of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)…
Cape Town, July 2012. In the public interest? The role of NGOs in national health systems and global health policy. Workshop at the People’s Health Assembly
A group of NGOs and international NGO networks contributed to the People’s Health Assembly with a critical reflection on the role and the future of private not for profit health service…