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

INB7, 6-10 November 2023 G2H2 statement under agenda item 2 Respected INB members and delegations, The world is suffering yet another scorching war. It’s faced again with the international community’s illogical failure to address geopolitical crises, incurring enormous costs. WHO Member States now risk falling into the same perilous paradox. As members of the Geneva Global Health Hub, a coalition of about 50 civil society organizations committed to democratic global public health governance, we are preoccupied for the latest draft of the pandemic agreement. We wonder if these negotiations ..read more

12-13 October 2023 Digging into the hardware of the Pandemic Treaty Civil society dialogues with Geneva Missions convened by Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) In a series of exchanges with Geneva Permanent Missions and representatives of WHO member states engaged in the INB process, members of the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) will share a set of core ingredients (“hardware”) deemed indispensable for a relevant new WHO Convention, Agreement or other Instrument to prevent, prepare and respond to new pandemics. The first two sessions on 12 October (Geneva) and 13 October (Zoom) will take pla ..read more

Evian civil society retreat, 8-10 November 2023 At the UN: Civil society in a state of exception – how to free ourselves from the Stockholm syndrome The United Nations, most of its specialized agencies, and some member states, have explicitly recognized the critical role civil society organizations play in formulating, monitoring, and evaluating policy at all levels of governance, including the intergovernmental. Rhetorical recognition of CSO value notwithstanding, some UN agencies – the World Health Organization (WHO) is a case in point – are increasingly depriving CSOs working at the int ..read more