Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order
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Participants at the European Health Forum Gastein discussed how global health has shifted from cooperative policymaking toward geopolitical competition and fragmentation. Ilona Kickbusch called for renewed health sovereignty as international divisions increasingly shape health policy.
Global health has moved from an area of mutual cooperation to one dominated by “high politics” and division, observed Ilona Kickbusch at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) last Friday (2 October). Leading the closing panel, the founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, highlighted how recent voting at the […]