31 October 2022: The project of a EU global health strategy: in whose interest will it be?

The Dutch Global Health Alliance (DGHA), with around twenty member organisations, was a key stakeholder in the development of the Dutch Global Health Strategy expected be finalized mid-October 2022. Simultaneously, the European Union (EU) has been developing its own Global Health Strategy. It is important for health activists from all regions of the world to build more momentum and visibility around the added value of effective, sustainable global health strategies, based on a number of principles such as equity, solidarity, human rights, sustainable systems and financing.

As part of the learning process, the DGHA reached out to similar platforms in Europe to learn from their experiences with the development of their respective national global health strategies. The DGHA developed an analysis of the existing Global Health Strategies in European countries which showcased some points of attention. This inspired the DGHA to organize this webinar to exchange good practices and lessons learned from each of the country’s processes, to learn from other perspectives not included in this analysis and to examine possible underlying geopolitics which should be addressed.

Programme

• Christina de Vries, Cordaid and MMI Board member
  Opening and introduction
• Lyle Muns, Aidsfonds, Dutch Global Health Alliance
  Analysis of European Global Health Strategies published so far
  
• Andreas Wulf, medico international
  Towards a EU Global Health Strategy: What to learn from Germany?
• Martin Leschhorn, Medicus Mundi Switzerland – Network Health for All
  Swiss Foreign Health Policy: “Consistency on the international stage”
• Labila Sumayah Musoke, ISER Uganda
  A critical look at European Global Health Strategies: In whose interest?

Inputs followed by open discussion
Session moderated by Rosana Lescrauwaet Noboa, DGHA
Language of this session: English

Session documentation

• Session recording: Zoom cloud
• Session chat: can be ordered at the MMI secretariat

Key references

• European Global Health Strategies: Brief summary and analysis
  Dutch Global Health Alliance 2022
• Dutch Global Health Strategy 2023-2030
  Government of the Netherlands 2022
• Global Health Strategy of the German Federal Government
  Bundesministerium für Gesundheit 2022
• Swiss Health Foreign Policy 2019-2024
  Federal Office of Public Health 2019

Host and co-organizers

• Medicus Mundi International – Network Health for All
• Cordaid
• Dutch Global Health Alliance

This session is part of the 2022 series of MMI policy dialogues
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