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.
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 take this issue further, at present 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. discussing: Global health diplomacy: the need for new perspectives, strategic approaches and skills in global health. A pdf of this article can be opened here.
Other writings on global health diplomacy by Ilona Kickbusch can be found on this list of her publications on global health.
NEW: SAVE THE DATE: 29th of November 2010, GENEVA
Negotiating health in the 21st century: Fragile states: analyzing the interface of health and diplomacy
June 2007 Ilona Kickbusch led the first summer executive programme on global health diplomacy at the Graduate Institute >>> more
Since then a number of such courses have been conducted, leading to the defiition of a core curriculam: Ilona Kickbusch: Global Health Diplomacy - the core curriculum. Working paper March 2009 (*.pdf)
