Executive Course on
Global Health Diplomacy
Applications now
open Deadline: Monday 1 April 2012
1-5 July 2013
The Global Health Programme of the Graduate
Website: http://bit.ly/12IAlip
An intensive five-day course in
response to demand for new skills as health moves beyond its purely technical
realm to become an ever more critical element in foreign policy, security
policy and trade agreements.
Since 2007, more than 120 diplomats and health professionals have benefited
from this course, which focuses on health diplomacy and negotiations, with a
new thematic emphasis each year.
This year's course will explore
current debates at the interface between foreign policy, trade and human
rights, such as non-communicable diseases, the post-2015 development agenda,
and access to medicines. Through a multidisciplinary learning process,
academics and practitioners will share their expertise on health-related
negotiations including international law mechanisms to develop new agreements.
Negotiation simulations and skill-building activities will facilitate the real-life
background discussion, along with a high-level introduction to the field of
global health diplomacy and key challenges at the national, regional and global
levels.
The course is aimed at applicants from
different professional backgrounds, such as health attachés and other diplomats
with a portfolio impacting on health, health and international relations
professionals in departments of international health, as well as
representatives of international organisations, NGOs, philanthropic
organisations and the private sector.
Course Director
Professor Dr Ilona KICKBUSCH
