Global Health Landscape Symposium (GHLS)

  Here’s the stereotype of how global health programs are developed: Experts in wood-paneled rooms in Washington, DC or Geneva determine the priorities, the interventions and the money required. Then they tell countries what their problems are and how to fix them. Here’s the goal: Representatives from national governments and local and civil society organizations…

    For the past decade, funding budgets for global health have flatlined in the U.S. and around the world. At the same time, political and public enthusiasm for our work arguably has been waning as other issues compete for mindshare. All of this was true even before the 2016 U.S. elections, the outcomes of…

The Global Health Landscape Symposium: Revitalizing the Global Health Advocacy Agenda (#GHLS18) was a moment as well as a meeting: to gather leaders in global health policy, programming, education, implementation, and beyond. On November 30, nearly 200 attendees from 110 organizations came together in Washington, DC to engage with the state of global health from…