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Global Health DiplomacyCommission Reports and

Results from the 67th World Health Assembly

Webinar, 26 May 2014


• Series of reports timed for or around WHA 67

• Growing complexity of global health actors

• Growing engagement with WHA

• Close to 3500 official delegates at 67th session

• Record-breaking number of agenda items, documents and resolutions

• Over 20 resolutions adopted, 19 to 24 May 2014

Webinar Agenda, 26 May 2014

• Commission reports on global health diplomacy

• Lancet Commission on Investing in Health

• University of Oslo on Global Governance for Health

• Chatham House reports on governance and financing

• World Health Assembly outcomes of interest

• Global governance opportunities

• Health systems and surveillance issues

Lancet Commission

• Larry Summers and 25 global experts

• Updating the message of WDR 1993

• Key messages of new report

• Enormous payoffs from investing in health

• Grand convergence is possible for all countries

• Fiscal policies are a powerful and underutilized lever for curbing NCDs and injurites

• Progressive universalism (universal health coverage) is efficient

University of Oslo

• The political origins of health inequity

o Economic crises and austerity measures, o Knowledge and intellectual property, o Foreign investment treaties, o Food security, o Transnational corporate activity, o Irregular migration, and o Violent conflict

Chatham House Reports

• Governance of WHO

• Functions and global role of WHO

• Regional and country offices

• Financing of the WHO

• Sustainable health financing

• Emphasis on domestic financing

• Global public goods and role of external financing

• Global agreement on sustainable financing

WHA Global Governance Opportunities

• WHO reform on nonstate actors

• NCD package

• Post 2015 Development Agenda

• Nutrition issues

WHA Global Governance Opportunities Nonstate Actors

• Framework of Engagement A67/6

• Basic principles and categories of interactions

• Four separate policies and operational procedures

• Requests for clarity and details on conflict of interest and financing

• Drafting group revised decision• 17 June follow-up questions and DG report

• Regional committees separate reports

• Second report from DG to Executive Board

WHA Global Governance Opportunities: NCD Package

• Commission on Childhood Obesity

• Nine indicators for Global Action Plan

• TOR for Inter-Agency Task Force

• TOR for Global Coordinating Mechanism

• Limited participation by non-State actors

• Further work plan limits for Working Groups

• UN General Assembly Summit 10 to 11 July 2014

WHA Global Governance Opportunities: Post 2015 Agenda

• Expanding on MDGs for sustainable development (NCDs, mental health, newborn health, injuries)

• Highest attainable standard of physical and mental health/universal health coverage

• Strengthening of health systems

• Health information systems

• Indicators in all relevant related dimensions

WHA Global Governance Opportunities: Nutrition

• Maternal, infant and young child nutrition strategy

• Breast milk substitutes

• Inappropriate marketing of complementary foods

• ICN2 – priorities to reshape the food system to respond to health needs

• WHO new report on nutrition Sept 2014

Health Systems and Surveillance

• Consultative Expert Working Group

• Access to essential medicines

• Regulatory system strengthening

• Global Health Security Agenda

• Antimicrobial resistance

Consultative Expert Working Group

• Promoting innovative components

• Leishmaniasis with both DNDi and US FDA

• Pathogen box for drug development – MMV

• Biomarkers as diagnostics

• Voluntary pooled fund through TDR

• Type I access plus Types II and III diseases

• Delinkage as the rallying cry

Access to essential medicines

• Developing a limited range of essential medicines based on best evidence

• Efficient procurement

• Affordable prices

• Effective distribution systems

• Rational use

• Referral to core WHO essential medicines list

Regulatory system strengthening

• Supporting national regulators

• Quality, safety and efficacy of products

• Manufactured, stored, distributed and dispensed;

• Illegal manufacturing & trade controlled & prevented;

• Rational use by health professionals and public

• Promotion and advertising is regulated and fair;

• Access to medicines is not hindered by unjustified regulatory work.Consultative Expert Working Group

Regulatory system strengthening

• Strengthening of collaboration

• WHO norms, standards, capacity building

• Networks of strengthened regulatory authorities and

• Progressive transition of prequalification

Global Health Security Agenda

• Launched in February 2014

• Concerns: MERS, polio, TB, influenza, anti-microbial resistance

• Prevention, detection and response

• Financial commitment development meeting

• High-level meeting in September

Global Health Security Agenda

• Integrating health, security, economics, agriculture, humanitarian and diplomatic approaches

• CDC working with 10 countries

• Additional 30 countries to advance key milestones

• $4 billion over 5 years

Antimicrobial resistance

• Basic priorities:

• Information and extent of resistance and use in humans and animals

• Increasing awareness of health providers and public

• Responsible use and hand hygiene

• Global action plan for WHA in 2015:

• improving drug management systems,

• increasing lifespan of drugs and new diagnostics and drugs


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