Timeline: Congress to Strengthening Global Health led by Germany https://totalityofevidence.com/timeline/congress-to-strengthening-global-health-led-by-germany/ German articles translated to English using Google Translate: https://translate.google.com/ ------------ https://www.cducsu.de/veranstaltungen/globale-gesundheit-st-rken-un-nachhaltigkeitsziel-umsetzen/referenten Translated: Strengthening global health Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goal This event is over. A follow-up report can be found here. Thanks to the cooperation of research, industry, German and international organizations as well as private foundations, the health situation in developing countries has improved significantly. --------------- Strengthening Global Health - Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CNZ8ydxjUw Translated: Health policy does not end at national borders. Rather, it is a global issue that is closely linked to development policy. At a top-class congress last week, we dedicated ourselves to the topic "Strengthening global health - implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goal". Among others, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus, Health Minister Jens Spahn, Education Minister Anja Karliczek, Development Minister Gerd Müller, parliamentary group vice-presidents Hermann Gröhe and Georg Nüßlein and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. #GlobalHealth -------------- https://www.cducsu.de/themen/gesundheit-ist-ein-menschenrecht Translated: Health is a human right" Congress of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group on the UN Sustainable Development Goal Global Health – Germany has a pioneering role. Health policy does not end at national borders. Rather, it is a global issue that is closely linked to development policy. Germany has taken on a pioneering role in this area in recent years. At a top-class congress, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag devoted itself to the topic "Strengthening global health - implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goal". German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: "Health is a joint task both nationally and globally." There are countless interactions with other sustainability goals. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, praised the Commitment of the Federal Government. "With its G20 presidency, Germany has put global health on the international agenda." It is one of the largest supporters and donor countries of a global health architecture. He expects further impetus from the German EU Presidency in the second half of 2020. "Access to health services is a human right for all people, not just for the rich," he stressed. The Chancellor called health care "an imperative of humanity". "Silo policy" counterproductive Ilona Kickbusch from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva praised Germany's pioneering role, which is often not sufficiently perceived in Germany itself. But health is no longer a "soft policy area," she said. "Health ministers in the 21st century always have international responsibilities." She also spoke of health as an inalienable human right. "No one should be left behind." She warned against a "silo policy", i.e. from thinking in national units or in delimited sectors. Today, health policy can no longer be separated from climate policy: "The health of people can no longer be understood separately from the health of the planet." "Development needs health" Deputy parliamentary group chairman Hermann Gröhe focused on the global context. German health cannot be served by letting the health of the world out of sight. "Development needs health." Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn said it was in Germany's original interest to get involved in global health policy. Conversely, Germany must also play its part in strengthening global health. As an example, he cited vaccine fatigue in Germany with a view to the re-spread of measles. He recalled that the WHO ranks opponents of vaccination among the ten biggest risks to global health. That is why he is campaigning for compulsory vaccination: "The German health care system can also be expanded." With a view to global contexts, Georg Nüßlein, vice-president of the Bundestag group, emphasised: "We would like to assume our responsibility." Digitalization as an opportunity Development Minister Gerd Müller recalled the major health threats that need to be tackled. Among them were epidemics that are coming back, the spread of malaria, which could soon occur in Europe in view of global traffic flows, the civilization disease diabetes, the deadly infectious disease tuberculosis and increasing antibiotic resistance. Among other things, he mentioned the development of basic health structures in developing countries, the empowerment of women and the development of clouds for the dissemination of health knowledge. Spahn is also focusing on digitization. He said smartphones and health apps can be used to reach people who have never been reachable in traditional ways for healthcare services. According to Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek, progress in global health care can only be made if investments are made in global health research. Among other things, she called for international partnerships so that expensive drugs can be developed more quickly and synergy effects between governmental and non-governmental donors can be created. In addition, efficient research capacities must be built up locally – for example in African countries. Last but not least, it depends on the training of physicians. Experts discussed the research landscape in Germany, the meaning of lighthouses and the contribution of foundations on the podium. -------------------------------------- https://www.cducsu.de/veranstaltungen/globale-gesundheit-staerken-un-nachhaltigkeitsziel-umsetzen Cross-border health hazards can be more easily contained. Nevertheless, significant efforts are needed to implement the UN Sustainable Development Goal Global Health. The German Bundestag attaches great importance to this task. The German government is developing a strategy for global health, and the World Health Organization (WHO) is working on an action plan. At a congress, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag would like to take stock with representatives of the Federal Government, the WHO and other organizations and discuss necessary further steps. We cordially invite you to this event on Wednesday, 8 May 2019, from 2.30 to 5.30 p.m. in the meeting room of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Reichstag building, room 3N001, Berlin. We would be pleased about your participation. You are welcome to forward the invitation to other interested parties. -------------------- Speakers: https://www.cducsu.de/veranstaltungen/globale-gesundheit-st-rken-un-nachhaltigkeitsziel-umsetzen/referenten Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany https://web.archive.org/web/20190422194110/https://www.cducsu.de/abgeordnete/angela-merkel https://www.cducsu.de/veranstaltungen/referenten/dr-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus https://www.cducsu.de/veranstaltungen/referenten/prof-ilona-kickbusch-phd https://www.cducsu.de/veranstaltungen/referenten/prof-dr-christian-drosten https://www.cducsu.de/veranstaltungen/referenten/prof-jeremy-farrar https://www.cducsu.de/veranstaltungen/referenten/joe-cerrell https://www.cducsu.de/abgeordnete/georg-kippels https://www.cducsu.de/veranstaltungen/referenten/prof-dr-clarissa-prazeres-da-costa Prof. Dr. Clarissa Prazeres da Costa Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Global Health (CGH) at TUM https://www.med.tum.de/de/center-global-health --------------Centre for Global Health------------ https://www.med.tum.de/de/center-global-health Our activities range from setting up collaborative projects dedicated to relevant research questions on global health to teaching activities and discussion events on the topic. Through past and ongoing collaborations, we have been able to build up a large network with partners from the Global South, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Not only are we constantly expanding this network, we also want to make it available to researchers and thus give existing research projects a global orientation. Our goal is that research results are quickly translated into meaningful and effective political measures. This is the only way we can achieve the goals for sustainable development of the United Nations, to which the Federal Republic of Germany has also committed itself. We encourage anyone interested in Global Health to get in touch. We have listed some of our activities below and provided additional links. What is Global Health? Due to the increasing interconnectedness of our world, health has also become an issue that needs to be viewed globally. Today there are many complex challenges in this area that cannot be solved with local approaches. These include, for example, a change in the occurrence of neglected tropical diseases due to migration and climate change and widespread antimicrobial resistance. Global Health is a multidisciplinary approach to research, teaching and policy making that combines biomedical science with political and social sciences, computer science and engineering, among others, in order to understand and address the interconnectedness and interplay of the various factors that determine health. Important overarching topics of global health are governance, financing, health systems and "One Health", i.e. the connections between human, animal and environmental health. From these perspectives, for example, specific clinical pictures are researched, such as chronic diseases and infectious diseases, or mental health. Other research topics are nutrition, eHealth or the role of trade in global health.