– Globalization, Crises and Health Systems: Confronting Regional Perspectives

Geneva, 19-21 April 2010

Health systems around the world are facing unprecedented challenges, many related to or exacerbated by globalization. The 2010 edition of the Geneva Health Forum aims to elucidate the global or transboundary issues that directly or indirectly influence health systems. It also aims to provide deeper insight into how health crises impact society as a whole.

• Crises reveal existing weaknesses and disparities and offer opportunities for health systems to function on new grounds
• Crises can be local, but are increasingly global in their reach, and their impacts on health systems call for critical examination
• Globalization tends to open new health services markets (structure, systems, workforce, insurances, etc.) which can engender reorganization and redistribution of roles within national health systems
• Exploring concrete examples of local and regional responses to crises and impacts of globalization offers a rich source from which innovative local and global approaches can be formulated
• New forms of governance that include the numerous new local and global partners in health must be identified
• Information technologies facilitate the dissemination of information to increasingly diversified actors, local and global -- a phenomenon which poses new challenges and opportunities

The Geneva Health Forum 2010 will tackle these issues by confronting regional perspectives, bringing together local and regional examples. It gives priority to facilitating exchanges and diffusing lessons learned from local and regional initiatives, which can offer potential solutions to the global issues at hand.

For more information about the conference follow this LINK

 Practical Info Marketplace-GHF2010-1.pdf

 Programme GHF2010 flyer 4.pdf

 GHF10 Group Registration Form.xls

 GHFhub announcement 1.doc