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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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
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