Global Health Diplomacy
Ilona Kickbusch has been appointed as the director of the global health programme of the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva Switzerland.
Within this programme she is developing a special focus on Global Health Diplomacy - updates can be found on the programme website.
In the WHO Bulletin March 2007 on Health and Foreign Policy you will find an article by - Ilona Kickbusch et al. discusssing: Global health diplomacy: the need for new perspectives, strategic approaches and skills in global health. A pdf of this article can be opened here. A one hour lecture by Ilona Kickbusch at the INSP, Cuernavaca is available on CD ROM.
NEW: Ilona Kickbusch: Global Health Diplomacy - the core curriculum. Working paper March 2009 (*.pdf)
NEW: Prof. Dr. Ilona Kickbusch & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hein: "Global Health Diplomacy" - Welche Rolle spielt Deutschland? in: puls.b Nr. 4/2009 - Gesundheit & Ökonomie www.puls-b.de
SAVE THE DATE: 15th of October, 2009, GENEVA
Negotiating health in the 21st century: Regional voices in global health governance, 3rd Symposium on Global Health Diplomacy >>> more
Publication: Global health diplomacy - a bridge to innovative collaborative action (*.pdf)
NEW: Geneva Symposium on Global Health Diplomacy on 21. October 2008 successfully completed. Speeches and videos are here available.
Health and foreign policy: The links between health and foreign policy are increasingly being explored. Ilona Kickbusch has been at the forefront of this thinking and has organized and initiated several meetings to discuss this issue further:
- HEI Symposium «Global Health Diplomacy and Negotiating Health in the 21st Century: Current Issues and Future Challenges»
- Health as Foreign Policy, a German US Fulbright dialogue, Berlin November 2003 (*.pdf), Report (*.pdf)
- Health as Foreign Policy, a discussion seminar at the Nuffield Trust, London November 2003
- Symposium on Health and Security, Pocantico 2001
June 2007 Ilona Kickbusch led the first summer executive programme on global health diplomacy at the Graduate Institute >>> more

More on the 2009 executive programmes on Global Health Diplomacy can be found on graduateinstitute.ch.
