Category: Health and Well-Being

Just a few days after the World Health Assembly, the Geneva Health Forum will take place here in Geneva. The event, which takes place at the Conference Centre on 25-28 May, is being organized for the second time, and will bring together more than 1,000 people coming from all over the world. One of the main persons behind this event is Professor Louis Loutan of the University of Geneva. Q: Professor Loutan, how did it all start? In 2006…

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The policy landscape of global health governance is changing rapidly. A wide range of approaches crowd the field: global health as foreign policy, global health as security, global health as charity, global health as investment, and global health as public health. But at least two major approaches are missing from this analysis: global health as a market and global health as social justice. Yet these have probably been the most important driving forces of the 21st century global health…

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