Global Health and the EU: a new strategy for the new normal
Giving Health a Voice
European Public Health Alliance
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
To kick off the new podcast, we discuss the recently adopted EU Global Health Strategy. This revised the previous 2010 version with a new plan with a stronger focus on health in Europe and how it relates to the wider world. We are joined in this episode by Ilona Kickbush, someone who has been active since before the first strategy was adopted, and who talks about the new strategy’s ambition and its impact in Europe and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | The European Commission has just revised its decade-old global health strategy. |
| 0:07.0 | The newly launched one seems far more grounded in health and taking into account the environment, climate, the sustainable development goals. |
| 0:16.0 | But how does this new strategy fit into the existing policies and processes? |
| 0:22.2 | How is it being seen from the outside of Europe? |
| 0:25.7 | How shall it eventually deliver to people and communities? |
| 0:30.6 | In today's podcast, we will discuss the ambition behind the EU global health strategy |
| 0:36.3 | and the impact that we could expect in Europe and beyond. |
| 0:41.3 | Hi, I'm Milka Sokolovich, scientist by background and advocate at heart. I'm delighted to be your host for this episode of giving health a voice. |
| 0:56.6 | It is always those for whom we say that they do not need a special introduction |
| 1:01.6 | that actually make it most difficult for a host to select entries from their rich CVs. |
| 1:08.6 | And one such guest is Professor Ilona Kigbush, the founding director of the Global |
| 1:14.0 | Health Program at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. |
| 1:20.2 | Her key interests relate to the political determinants of health, health in all policies, and global |
| 1:26.7 | health. |
| 1:34.7 | Ilona is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, the WHO Council on the Economic of Health for All, and is council chair to the World Health Summit in Berlin. |
| 1:40.9 | She has been involved in German G7 and G20 activities related to global health and has advised on German and EU global health strategies. |
| 1:51.6 | Ilona was profiled by the Lancet as a global health reformer, and that says a lot. |
| 1:58.2 | She was also awarded the cross of the order of merit of the Federal Republic of |
| 2:03.2 | Germany and the WHO Medal for contributions to global health. I obviously try to keep it brief, |
| 2:10.9 | but there is so much more to the work and expertise of our guest today than fits in these |
| 2:16.5 | few lines. |
| 2:20.5 | Dear Ilona, thanks for being with us today. |
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