[EQ] Health and Foreign Policy: survey of educational and training initiatives

 

Health and Foreign Policy: survey of educational and training initiatives

 

Global Health Programme – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Geneva May 2008

 

Website: http://graduateinstitute.ch/executive/training-workshops/global-health-diplomacy.html

 

“…Health is an important, yet still broadly neglected, long-term foreign policy issue and needs a stronger strategic focus on the international agenda (cf. Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO). In consequence, there needs to be a better understanding of health among diplomats, foreign affairs specialists as well as academics but also a better understanding of foreign policy by the public health community. Addressing this gap, the Graduate Institute for example has launched an executive education programme in global health diplomacy.

In order to get an overview of this relatively young field of research and in the context of a working agreement with the WHO, the Global Health Programme of the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies Geneva is conducting an survey of educational and training initiatives around the world that aim to address the need to establish closer links between health and foreign policy, links commonly subsumed by the terms “health diplomacy” or “health foreign affairs”.

 

This survey is addressed to both schools of public health and schools of foreign relations as well as a range of other educational institutions and initiatives.

We are thus addressing ourselves to you and would like to ask you to support this survey by briefly commenting on the following points:

• Please let us know if you have established programmes in this area or are conducting courses that primarily
  address issues such as health and foreign policy, health and security, international health law, health diplomacy
  and the like. This also includes the national training programmes for diplomats.

• Please also indicate to us what kind of student body your educational initiatives are targeted at. It is of particular
  interest to us if you are creating learning environments that bring students and/or practitioners from both public
  health and foreign policy together.

 

We have not developed a questionnaire as we are sure that your initiatives will be documented on your respective websites –
so all we ask you to do is to guide us to appropriate URLs.
We would be very happy though if you were also to share with us any information that is not easily accessible yet – like for example a plan to start such a programme. Of course we will share the results of our work with you.

 

Please respond to: globalhealth@graduateinstitute.ch

This study is conducted in the context of the Oslo Ministerial Declaration – global health: a pressing foreign policy issue of our time
It can be accessed under
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/ud/Aboutthe-Ministry/Minister-of-Foreign-Affairs-Jonas-Gahr-S/Speeches-andarticles/2007/lancet.html?id=466469

 

From: Professor Dr. Ilona Kickbusch
Director Global Health Programme

 

 

 

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