G2H2 Annual Report 2023   Dear Members and Friends 2023 was a trying year for billions of people across the globe. It was marked by a sharp worsening of the global cost of living crisis that commenced in 2022, the exacerbation of violent conflicts and wars in countries like Ukraine, Yemen, Haiti and the DRC and the fresh flames of war in Sudan, and in Gaza, where almost 20,000 people, most of whom were women and children, were killed between 7 October and the end of the year. writ large In the midst of this disenchanted world of sorrow, tears and blood, negotiations in the World Health ..read more

The Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) is a membership-based association created in Geneva in 2016 to provide an independent civil society space to enable the sharing of knowledge and the creation /experimentation of relevant initiatives to advocate for democratic global public health governance. The G2H2 has with time evolved into a mature mechanism for convening civil society debates and reflections, as well as collectively shaping advocacy initiatives on the right to health and the horizon of Health for All. The Secretariat of G2H2 is administratively managed by Medicus Mundi International (M ..read more

Preliminary announcement G2H2 civil society workshop ahead of WHA77 Geneva, Saturday 25 May 2025 World in flames: civil society lost in the impotence of international law The last two years of escalating warfare, coming in the wake of an earlier phase of global chaos due to the coronavirus pandemic, have deeply radicalized injustices already enshrined in dynamics of international politics. This moment of wars between and within countries reshapes conflict landscapes and kindles regional and global instability. While provoking mass casualties and colossal waves of migrations, this reality con ..read more

Can we talk? And will you listen? Series of public briefings and policy debates hosted by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2), 20-24 May 2024, ahead of the 77th World Health Assembly In the tradition of various series of policy debates hosted by the Geneva Global Health Hub over the last years, the secretariat of G2H2 invited all members to submit proposals for a public policy debate in the week before the opening of the 77th World Health Assembly in May. Watch out for the programme of policy debates to be published in early May. All policy debates will be openly accessible via Zoom. Can we ..read more

This dialogue meeting is part of a series of G2H2 hosted policy dialogues with Geneva Permanent Missions. Find more information here: https://g2h2.org/posts/2023dialogues/ See also the announcement of another dialogue session, on Thursday morning, 14 March 2024, on “Pandemic Treaty: Promoting a robust and inclusive governance.” An in-person roundtable dialogue with Geneva Permanent Missions convened by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2)  Pandemic Treaty Financing: Secure accountable public funding for a global public health purpose Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 9.30 – 11.30 CET at the ..read more

This dialogue meeting is part of a series of G2H2 hosted policy dialogues with Geneva Permanent missions. Watch out for the announcement of another dialogue session, on 12 March 2024, on “Pandemic Treaty Financing: the need to secure accountable public funding for a global public health purpose”.  Find more information here: https://g2h2.org/posts/2023dialogues/ An in-person roundtable dialogue with Geneva Permanent Missions convened by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2)  Pandemic Treaty: Promoting a robust and  inclusive governance Thursday, 14 March 2024, 9.30 – 11.30 ..read more

This dialogue meeting is part of a series of G2H2 hosted policy dialogues with Geneva Permanent missions. Find more information here: https://g2h2.org/posts/2023dialogues/ An in-person roundtable dialogue with Geneva Permanent Missions convened by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) and the Civil Society Alliance for Human Rights in the Pandemic Treaty (CSA): How can the pandemic agreement advance the right to health and associated human rights in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response? Monday, 12 February 2024, 15:30 – 17:30 CET, International Environmental House, Chemin de Ba ..read more

“Digging into the hardware of the Pandemic Treaty” This dialogue meeting is part of a series of G2H2 hosted policy dialogues with Geneva Permanent missions. Find more information here: https://g2h2.org/posts/2023dialogues/ Focus on Pandemic Prevention G2H2 Dialogue with Geneva Permanent Missions Thursday, 12 October 2023 Geneva, International Environmental House   Pandemic prevention starts with addressing the key drivers of spillovers and other pandemic threats and a systemic understanding of One Health, one that tackles the current industrial and development models that literal ..read more

Palestine: We call out the hypocrisy and demand a ceasefire now Statement by the Steering Committee of the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2). Nearly 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza have already been killed since the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commenced its indiscriminate bombardment of the Gaza Strip in the wake of the brutal attacks by Hamas on 7th October, which left 1,200 people in Israel killed and 240  kidnapped, and shocked Israelis. A hard negotiated humanitarian pause only lasted seven days. The urgent need for a lasting ceasefire now cannot be overemphasised, to mitigate the militar ..read more

15-19 January 2024: Series of public briefings and policy debates ahead of WHO EB 154, hosted by G2H2 In the week before the 154th Session of the WHO Executive Board, a series of public policy debates organized by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) and its members will provide spaces for sharing, assessing and debating health policy and governance challenges within and beyond the items covered by the formal agenda of WHO EB, bridging from health policies to people’s realities, addressing determinants of health and promoting democratic governance. “…and other matters of life and death ..read more