Global health diplomacy: training across disciplines
Ilona Kickbusch a, Thomas E Novotny b, Nico Drager c, Gaudenz Silberschmidt d, Santiago Alcazar e
Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Volume 85, Number 12, December 2007, 901-980
Available online at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/12/07-045856/en/index.html
“….The interface between trade and health is on the cutting edge of global health diplomacy, write Ilona Kickbusch et al. in a perspective. Foreign policy is now being driven substantially by health to protect national security, free trade and economic advancement, they say. But this exciting new field of study requires conceptual development and practical training programmes……”
“…….Some governments have taken purposeful strides to incorporate health as a foreign policy tool. Perhaps, however, it is the other way around: foreign policy is now being driven substantially by health to protect national security, free trade and economic advancement. We offer a few examples of this changing field of health and foreign policy as background to our academic response: The United Kingdom is attempting to establish policy coherence with the development of a central governmental global health strategy based on health as a human right and global public good. Rooted in the recognition of globalization and its effects on health, this new effort will bring together the
Affiliations
a. Graduate Institute for International Studies,
b.
c. Department of Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Law, World Health Organization,
d. Swiss Federal Office of Public Health,
e. Ministry of Health for International Affairs,
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