Newsletter Edition #358 [The Files In-Depth]
Readers,
Reforms mean different things to different communities within global health. At the moment, all kinds of aspirations are being hung on the reforms process. That in itself is interesting to watch.
In this story, we try to bring a few different strands together, and attempt to make sense of parallel conversations and meanings attributed to reforms as discussed the World Health Assembly in Geneva last month.
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WHA79 UPDATE
Reforming the Global Health Architecture: Power Relations, Jockeying for Influence, and the Efforts to Break Free from Status Quo
By Priti Patnaik with Pia Mehdwan & Shubhangi Thakur
The efforts to reform the global health architecture is a bit disparate and diverse, like global health itself. Even so, there are commonalities in some of the approaches in the way stakeholders are thinking about reforms. (We analysed this earlier in detail.)
In this story we try to map recent conversations at the World Health Assembly last month that provide clues on the direction of travel in these discussions.
This edition is divided into three parts: the decision at the WHA, what countries said, bring you key voices on reforms. We also present statements from countries' that reveal their expectations from the reforms process.
Key Takeaways: What we gathered (and deciphered)
- While there is an ostensible emphasis on the reforms process to be led by countries, the picture is for the moment not very clear on what this will mean in practice. Of course, this is only the beginning of the process on the WHO-hosted reforms process, but experts say discussions so far do not inspire much confidence towards big and bold thinking on the landscape of global health.
