ABSTRACT
The year 2015 was a significant anniversary for global health: 15 years since the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals and the creation of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, followed two years later by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. 2015 was also the 10-year anniversary of the adoption of the International Health Regulations (May 2005) and the formal entering into force of the Framework Convention on the Tobacco Control (February 2005). The anniversary of these frameworks and institutions illustrates the growth and contribution of ‘global’ health diplomacy. Each initiative has also revealed on-going issues with compliance, sustainable funding and equitable attention in global health governance. In this paper, we present four thematic challenges that will continue to challenge prioritisation within global health governance into the future unless addressed: framing and prioritising within global health governance; identifying stakeholders of the global health community; understanding the relationship between health and behaviour; and the role of governance and regulation in supporting global health.
Acknowledgements
This paper is based on the outcomes of a workshop on ‘Global Health Prioritisation: Looking Forward’ held on 27 July 2015 by the Australian Centre for Health Research at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Queensland University of Technology for the workshop and the contributions of the other participants in the workshop in developing the ideas in this article: Paul DeBarro, Belinda Herring, Barbara McPake, Louise Robinson, Julian Savulescu, Michael Selgelid and Anthony Zwi.
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