Otago Foreign Policy School 2024
Global Health: Challenges and Responses
Global Health gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as being much more central to global stability and prosperity than many people had previously realised.
Global Health can be defined as collaborative trans-national research and action to address health problems for all. It encompasses population-wide and individual-based health issues and operates across all sectors. It transcends national boundaries and requires trans-national action. It is also inter-disciplinary, engaging many specialist areas beyond traditional health disciplines, from basic science through to economics, ethics, and politics.
Global Health is a flagship area of expertise at the University of Otago, with University-wide inter-disciplinary engagement and collaborative initiatives in the Pacific, Asia and Africa, and engagement of major Global Health Funders.
Key themes of the School
- Global Health diplomacy, Law, Governance, and Global Institutions
- A Pacific perspective on Global Health
- Preparedness for Global Health emergencies
- Lessons from the history of Global Health challenges
- Health Nationalism, and Global equity, and major Global Health responses
Join us for three days of seminars by leading international and Otago speakers who offer a range of expertise.