Health Diplomacy

Private Financing in Global Health Partnerships: Influences and Choices

Yiu, Lichia; Zeiss, Sarah & Saner, Raymond “Private Financing in Global Health Partnerships: Influences and Choices”; (CSEND Working Paper); CSEND Policy Brief No. 11, ISSN 2235-8048, September 2013

The objective of this study and its consequent report was to trace the influence of the inclusion of private finance in the global health development context through its involvement in current public private partnerships throughout the 21st century. It highlights the impact of private financing, mainly through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on the subsequent goals and indicators of the partnerships it funds, as well as the ability of those goals to address global health goals set by the MDGs and monitored by the WHO.

WHO and Health & Environment: Need to Rethink Role of Civil Society IN A NUTSHELL

By putting governments and WHO under critical lens as for current positions to counteract climate change-tied health & environment deterioration, this article condemns the ongoing exclusion of civil society (CSOs e NGOs) from far-reaching relevant decisions. Under these circumstances, solutions to secure factual cohesion with civil society organisations are envisaged. As the Author maintains ‘…

The Health & Environment nexus requires a real multi-stakeholder approach, not some unnamed heads of government that claim to represent the peoples of the world. The only sustainable approach is that of separate constituencies/stakeholders who develop solutions within their stakeholder group, and once they have formulated their own position, then to reach out to the other stakeholders. It does not make sense to have Civil Society be amalgamated into a government position nor be controlled and absorbed by an International Organisation…

Negotiation and Health Diplomacy: The Case of Tobacco

Raymond Saner and Lichia Yiu, 2017, Matlin S. & Kickbusch, I. (eds.) “Pathways to Global Health: Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy (Volume 2)”, Global Health Diplomacy, vol. 5, p.171-210.

The goal of this chapter is to describe and analyse the multi-stakeholder negotiation process which unfolded during the negotiation of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco (FCTC), including the influencing and negotiation behaviour of the different stakeholder groups and how their disputes resulted in the completion of the FCTC, the initiation of negotiations and agreement on a protocol for FCTC Article 15 (the illicit trade in tobacco products), and the unfinished negotiations towards a protocol for FCTC Article 13 (tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship).

9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health

9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health
6-10 September 2015, TPH, Basel

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Public Private Partnerships in the Health Sector

Public Private Partnerships in the Health Sector: opportunities, risks and issues of congruence with the Sustainable Development Goals
Raymond Saner, CSEND

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