Background Books
Health: A Political Choice – Building Resilience and Trust
Edited by Ilona Kickbusch and John Kirton
Published by GT Media, 2024
Free downloadable electronic version available here
See also the Global Governance Project
Welcome messages
- The economy of well-being
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general, World Health Organization
- How to create trust in science: the responsibility of academic institutions
- Axel R Pries, president, World Health Summit
- Health and well-being: fairness for all generations
- Achim Steiner, administrator, United Nations Development Programme
- Health as a political choice: building resilience and trust
- Rose Gana Fomban Leke, 2023 Virchow Prize laureate, Favour Amarachi Nwogu, secretary, Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Society, and Wilfred Mbacham, founder, Fobang Institutes for Innovations in Science and Technology
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Editors' introductions
- Building resilience and trust from the ground up
- Ilona Kickbusch, founding director, Global Health Centre, Geneva
- Building resilience and trust in global health governance
- John Kirton, director, Global Governance Program
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Spotlight
- Science can help us achieve healthier futures for everyone
- John-Arne Røttingen, chief executive officer, Wellcome Trust
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Strengthening pathways to equitable multilateralism
- Divided world, divided health outcomes
- David P Fidler, Council on Foreign Relations
- Addressing the antibiotic emergency
- Claire Oxlade and Professor Dame Sally Davies, UK special envoy on antimicrobial resistance
- To tackle AMR, the world needs sustainable access to antibiotics
- Manica Balasegaram, Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership
- Taking a broad view of health
- Juan Pablo Uribe, Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents, Monique Vledder, Health, Nutrition and Population Department, and Clémentine Murer, Health, Nutrition and Population Department, World Bank
- The evolution of multilateral development banks is just getting started
- Amanda Glassman, Inter-American Development Bank
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Promoting health and ecological well-being
- Finding opportunities among the challenges
- Teymur Musayev, minister of health, Azerbaijan
- Fighting short-termism for a just future
- Herbert Girardet, World Future Council
- Can we build our resilience by rebuilding trust in nature?
- Grethel Aguilar, International Union for Conservation of Nature
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Spotlight
- Building health care resilience across Africa
- Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization African Region
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Building resilient health ecosystems
- Trust and resilience: two sides of the same coin
- Karl Lauterbach, health minister, Germany
- Health systems: the real drivers of economic growth and social well-being
- Hans Henri P Kluge and Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, World Health Organization Regional Officefor Europe
- Measuring trust: a precursor to resilient health systems
- Francesca Colombo, OECD Health Division
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Spotlight
- Health is a right, and a basis for growth
- Interview with Muhammad Ali Pate, coordinating minister of health and social welfare, Nigeria
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Promoting the social and emotional resilience of communities
- Setting a new standard for mental health care in Spain
- Mónica García Gómez, minister of health, Spain
- To ensure global health security, include everyone
- Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS
- It is time to amplify Indigenous voices
- Catherine Chamberlain, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
- Taking a public health approach to emergencies: building on trusted relationships with the community
- Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer
- Breaking the cycle of eroded trust
- Elhadj As Sy, World Health Summit Council
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Spotlight
- Putting people at the centre of care
- Interview with Lucy Gilson, 2024 Virchow Prize laureate
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Establishing safe digital infrastructure and trustworthy AI
- Transforming health care with Africa CDC’s digital strategy
- Jean Kaesya, Jean-Philbert Nsengimana, Cyril Seck, Patrick Kasiama, Edem Adzogenu, Nebiyu Dereje, Alain Ngashi Ngongo and Nicaise Ndembi, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
- Maximising AI’s transformative potential while minimising its risks
- Balvir S Tomar, NIMS Universit
- Reinforcing preparedness in a post-pandemic world
- Pamela Rendi-Wagner, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
- From infrastructure to impact: why foundations matter in digital health
- Alain Labrique, Derrick Muneen, Garrett Mehl and Jeremy Farrar, World Health Organization
- Why use artificial intelligence?
- Ricardo Baptista Leite, HealthAI – The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health
- Putting young people at the centre of digital health strategies
- Sarah Neggazi, International Pharmaceutical Students Federation
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Spotlight
- All for health, health for all
- Catharina Boehme and Melanie Bertram, World Health Organization
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Expanding sustainable investments in community resilience
- Building a
stronger health ecosystem in
Malawi
- The Honourable Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda, minister of health, Malawi
- Why the world needs a well-resourced Pandemic Fund
- Priya Basu, Pandemic Fund
- Transforming healthcare systems in Asia and the Pacific
- Eduardo P Banzon, Health Practice Team, Human and Social Development Sectors Office, Asian Development Bank
- A call to prioritise investment in universal health coverage to strengthen resilience
- Magda Robalo and Pamela Cipriano, UHC2030
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Spotlight
- Putting
immunisation at the heart of resilience
- Sania Nishtar, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
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Ensurancing transparency, accountability and voice
- Knowledge as a foundation to effect change
- The Right Honourable Helen Clark, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
- Recognising the importance of trust to pandemic preparedness and response
- Sarah Hess, Pandemic Preparedness Global Platforms, and Sylvie Briand, Global Pandemic Preparedness and Monitoring, World Health Organization
- A glance at the various forms of science diplomacy
- Lidia Arthur Brito, UNESCO
- How civil society organisations are making a difference
- Rodrigo Olin-German, Global Network of People Living with HIV
- WHO governance: from resolutions to results
- Peter Singer, University of Toronto
- Ingraining trust and resilience in supply chains
- Interview with Yasmin Chandani, inSupply Health
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Strengthening health diplomacy in the face of conflict and insecurity
- Health under siege: conflict, insecurity and the role of humanitarian diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
- Hanan Balkhy, World Health Organization
- Preventing child deaths in conflict and humanitarian settings is a political choice
- Helga Fogstad, UNICEF
- Health systems in conflict: amplifying the role of evidence in strenghtening health system resilience
- Preeti Patel, Centre for Conflict and Health Research, King’s College London
- An achievable path
to health in a context of chronic conflicts and insecurity
- Shadi Saleh, Global
Health Institute, American University of Beirut
- Protecting
children
experiencing conflict
- Interview with Samantha Nutt, War Child Canada/USA
- Supporting
health care in Afghanistan
- Interview with Wahid Majrooh, Afghanistan Center for Health and Peace Studies
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Sponsored content
- Ensuring health policies transcend political cycles: a call for sustainable reform
- Michel Demaré, chair of the board, AstraZeneca
- Addressing health holistically requires promoting meaningful social connection
- Karen DeSalvo, chief health officer, and Monica Bharel, clinical specialist, Google
- Alleviating global health disparities among the older population through healthspan science
- Mehmood Khan, CEO, Hevolution Foundation
- Holistic heart health care
- Oliver Appelhans, Daiichi Sankyo
- How AI helps YouTube Health transform the reach and scale of high-quality health information
- Garth Graham, YouTube Health
- Tackling the rising disease burden through health system resilience
- Iskra Reic, AstraZeneca, Partnership for Health System Sustainability
and Resilience Steering Committee member
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