Reimagining Global Health: Accelerating Change for a Sustainable Future
In 2023, an interdisciplinary group of global health experts from five continents convened a plenary panel at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) annual conference entitled “Reimagining Global Health for the 21st Century.” At the heart of this viewpoint article lies a fundamental...
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| author | Melissa Salm Ala Alwan Maureen Lichtveld Patricia J. García Peter H. Kilmarx Nelson K. Sewankambo Rebecca Martin Tahmeed Ahmed Judith N. Wasserheit |
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| description | In 2023, an interdisciplinary group of global health experts from five continents convened a plenary panel at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) annual conference entitled “Reimagining Global Health for the 21st Century.” At the heart of this viewpoint article lies a fundamental question: How can we reimagine global health to best confront existing challenges and meet the demands of the future? To fully assess the scope of global health challenges and identify sustainable solutions, a clear definition of the aims and strategic approaches is needed. Such an assessment is also critical for progress in promoting equity, including decolonizing global health. Key issues examined are the following: equity, governance, research, education, and sustainability. To assure a sustainable global health enterprise, we propose the following three strategic imperatives as guiding principles: a holistic, unified approach grounded in mutual benefit, joint investment, long-term collaborative commitment, and solidarity across low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs); joint priority setting of investments in research, education, practice, and workforce development; and collaborative governance, maximizing a multisectoral approach among local, national, regional, and global strategies. The viewpoint sets the stage for the development of an action roadmap to develop a unified concept of global health; identify strategies to ensure sustained funding for global health research, education and training, and practice; establish benchmarks and metrics to measure progress; and design a collaborative governance system to promote interconnectedness and engagement among local, regional, national, and global stakeholders. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bf71517d78f346438a975c3ef92feabd2025-02-11T05:28:37ZengUbiquity PressAnnals of Global Health2214-99962025-01-019116610.5334/aogh.46164616Reimagining Global Health: Accelerating Change for a Sustainable FutureMelissa Salm0Ala Alwan1Maureen Lichtveld2Patricia J. García3Peter H. Kilmarx4Nelson K. Sewankambo5Rebecca Martin6Tahmeed Ahmed7Judith N. Wasserheit8Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 207 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC 27599Director Emeritus, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo 11371School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 130 De Soto St., Pittsburgh, PA 15261School of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Honorio Delgado 430, Urb Ingeniería, LimaFogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, MSC 2220, Bethesda, MD 20892Makerere University College of Health Sciences, P.O. Box 7072, KampalaEmory Global Health Institute, 1599 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322ICDDR,B, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212Department of Global Health, University of Washington School of Public Health, 3980 15th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98105In 2023, an interdisciplinary group of global health experts from five continents convened a plenary panel at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) annual conference entitled “Reimagining Global Health for the 21st Century.” At the heart of this viewpoint article lies a fundamental question: How can we reimagine global health to best confront existing challenges and meet the demands of the future? To fully assess the scope of global health challenges and identify sustainable solutions, a clear definition of the aims and strategic approaches is needed. Such an assessment is also critical for progress in promoting equity, including decolonizing global health. Key issues examined are the following: equity, governance, research, education, and sustainability. To assure a sustainable global health enterprise, we propose the following three strategic imperatives as guiding principles: a holistic, unified approach grounded in mutual benefit, joint investment, long-term collaborative commitment, and solidarity across low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs); joint priority setting of investments in research, education, practice, and workforce development; and collaborative governance, maximizing a multisectoral approach among local, national, regional, and global strategies. The viewpoint sets the stage for the development of an action roadmap to develop a unified concept of global health; identify strategies to ensure sustained funding for global health research, education and training, and practice; establish benchmarks and metrics to measure progress; and design a collaborative governance system to promote interconnectedness and engagement among local, regional, national, and global stakeholders.https://account.annalsofglobalhealth.org/index.php/up-j-agh/article/view/4616reimagining global healthequitygovernanceresearcheducationsustainable future |
| spellingShingle | Melissa Salm Ala Alwan Maureen Lichtveld Patricia J. García Peter H. Kilmarx Nelson K. Sewankambo Rebecca Martin Tahmeed Ahmed Judith N. Wasserheit Reimagining Global Health: Accelerating Change for a Sustainable Future Annals of Global Health reimagining global health equity governance research education sustainable future |
| title | Reimagining Global Health: Accelerating Change for a Sustainable Future |
| title_full | Reimagining Global Health: Accelerating Change for a Sustainable Future |
| title_fullStr | Reimagining Global Health: Accelerating Change for a Sustainable Future |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reimagining Global Health: Accelerating Change for a Sustainable Future |
| title_short | Reimagining Global Health: Accelerating Change for a Sustainable Future |
| title_sort | reimagining global health accelerating change for a sustainable future |
| topic | reimagining global health equity governance research education sustainable future |
| url | https://account.annalsofglobalhealth.org/index.php/up-j-agh/article/view/4616 |
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