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The International Geneva Global Health Platform convenes and conducts capacity-building courses for various stakeholders across the global health community in Geneva and beyond to exchange, debate, analyse, foster understanding, spark collaborations, and build capacity to address complex global health challenges.

Geneva Health Week

A week full of public events happening every year at the Geneva Graduate Institute during the WHO World Health Assembly in May.

Capacity Building

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Global Health Events

Each year we organise public events, in-person and online, with a wide range of partners covering strategic issues in global health politics and governance.

Global Health Resources

Through the Global Health Jobs board and the Directories of Swiss and Geneva-based global health actors, we stand as a valuable resource in global health governance among the International Geneva community.

The International Geneva Global Health Platform is hosted by the and Global Health Centre funded by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)

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#WHA78: Geneva Health Week at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Hybrid

WHA Open Briefing, WHA Side Events

#WHA78: Geneva Health Week at the Geneva Graduate Institute

18 May 2025

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09:30

Geneva time

WHA Open Briefing and Side Events - from 18 to 21 May 2025

78th World Health Assembly

Hybrid

WHA Open Briefing, WHA Side Events

78th World Health Assembly

19 May 2025

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06:00

Geneva time

#WHA78 Hub created by the UN Foundation

Short course: The New Diplomacy of Global Health

In-person only

Course

Short course: The New Diplomacy of Global Health

23 Jun 2025

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11:00

Geneva time

Applications now closed

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Defending Progress: Challenges and Opportunities of the Health and Human Rights Intersection. Episode 2/2

4 November 2024

Defending Progress: Challenges and Opportunities of the Health and Human Rights Intersection. Episode 2/2

On World Health Day 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasised that access to health is a human right that must be available to people universally. While the strong inter-relationship between health and human rights is well recognised, stakeholders including the WHO recognise that more needs to be done to translate such universal claims into a lived reality of equitable and widely-accessible healthcare. Even more worryingly, widespread backsliding on human rights and the persistence of intersecting crises create concerns about negative fallouts for global health.

On the occasion of the Human Rights Platform's Annual Conference taking place on November 5th at the Geneva Graduate Institute, the Global Health Centre’s International Geneva Global Health Platform is pleased to invite Helena Nygren-Krug, Senior Advisor at UNAIDS, for a two-part podcast where we unpack the relationship between health and human rights and assess the challenges but also opportunities of this relationship in a changing global context.

In this second episode of our two-part podcast, we reflect on the mutual impacts of health and human rights in the context of current crises and their role in multilateral governance negotiations.

Defending Progress: Challenges and Opportunities of the Health and Human Rights Intersection. Episode 1/2

31 October 2024

Defending Progress: Challenges and Opportunities of the Health and Human Rights Intersection. Episode 1/2

In this first episode, we discuss the essential links between health and human rights and examine the role of human rights in contemporary health politics.

Implementing One Health through Global Health diplomacy: Comparing Switzerland and Rwanda

23 May 2024

Implementing One Health through Global Health diplomacy: Comparing Switzerland and Rwanda

Despite being there for many years, One Health has gained a lot of attention in the last year at the political level. With the new trends and changes appearing in health diplomacy, and the intersections with One Health, Katherine Urbáez talks about her research results and how diplomacy has been a tool for implementing new policies.

Can midwifery eliminate maternal mortality? Innovations from Indonesia

1 February 2024

Can midwifery eliminate maternal mortality? Innovations from Indonesia

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) affects 1 in every 6 women giving birth and is the leading cause of maternal mortality globally. Death from PPH is largely preventable and has been nearly eliminated in high-income countries, yet women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) continue to be disproportionately affected.

While policymakers at national levels struggle with this problem, a group of midwives in a remote mountain village in Indonesia solved the problem and have sustained zero maternal mortality continuously since 2015. They achieved this remarkable accomplishment using simple innovations, at zero cost.
We interviewed Maya Hidayati, the head midwife who spearheaded the effort, together with Anna Kurniati, Director of Workforce Deployment at the Indonesian Ministry of Health.

Watch our newest videos

Building on Success: Insights, Reflections and next steps for the Pandemic Agreement
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TESS on protecting human health as part of the global plastics treaty objective
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#WHA78 Side Event | Protecting People & Planet: Supporting Implementation of Future Plastics Treaty
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#WHA78 Side Event | Pandemic Readiness in an Uncertain World
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26 May - 29 May 2024

Geneva Health Week

Every year during the WHO World Health Assembly, the International Geneva Global Health Platform organises a series of discussions on critical global health issues, in collaboration with a wide range of partners.

Pictures from the 77th WHA Open Briefing organised with the UN Foundation at the Geneva Graduate Institute on 26 May 2024. Watch the recording.

Resources

Through the Global Health Jobs board and the Directories of Swiss and Geneva-based global health actors, the Platform stands as a valuable resource in global health governance among the International Geneva community.

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