Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter as an expert at the impulse dialog on the Global Health Architecture.

What should a global health architecture that works for all look like? Seven experts exchanged views on this topic at an impulse dialog organized by Germany's Global Health Hub in cooperation with Healthy DEvelopments on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. In addition to Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter, six other renowned representatives from academia, development cooperation, foundations and the private sector were invited: 

• Christoph Benn, Director for Global Health Diplomacy, Joep Lange Institute  
• Kate Dodson, Vice President for Global Health Strategy, United Nations Foundation 
• Roland Göhde, Chair of the Board, German Health Alliance  
• Ilona Kickbusch, Founder and Chair of the Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva  
• Jean-Olivier Schmidt, Head of Programme, BACKUP Health, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ)  
• Elhadj As Sy, Chair of the Board, Kofi Annan Foundation

Eight years remain to attain ‘healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.’ This is what the world has explicitly commited itself to achieve by 2030, as measured and tracked through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). But meanwhile, the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare humanity’s difficulty to organise effective collective action to meet its common global health challenges.

The document that emerged from this dialogue summarizes the respective positions and the central lines of argumentation. The different, sometimes opposing positions are intended to enrich the German policy dialogue regarding the governance of global health.