For 40 years, Global Health Council has served a unique role as a neutral convener of and information source for the global health community. On behalf of our members, partners and key stakeholders around the world, GHC has promoted a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to global health.
For 40 years, Global Health Council has served a unique role as a neutral convener of and information source for the global health community. On behalf of our members, partners and key stakeholders around the world, GHC has promoted a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to global health.
Board of Directors Thanks Leadership, Staff and Members for Unwavering Commitment to Global Health Mission
With deep regret, the Board of Directors of the Global Health Council (GHC) announces that the Council will close operations within the coming months. This decision about the Council’s future comes after serious deliberations about the state of global health issues, the role of the Council as a convenor and the Council’s current operating model.
GHC, formerly the National Council of International Health, is a U.S.-based, nonprofit membership organization that was created in 1972 to identify priority world health problems and to report on them to the U.S. public, legislators, international and domestic government agencies, academic institutions and the global health community. GHC is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world, and worked to ensure that all who strive for improvement and equity in global health have the information and resources they need to succeed.
The Global Health Council has championed issues of importance to the global health community and can point with pride to significant advances on the five key issues critical to improving health and promoting equity: women’s health; child’s health; HIV and AIDS; infectious diseases and health systems.
For the past four decades, the Council has been the neutral convening place for a diverse community of organizations, all advocating for improvement and equity in global health. The Council’s members have been its strength, working together to form broad-based coalitions to address challenges that affected us– whether advocating for increased U.S. government funding on global health or developing common positions on major health policy issues.
However, times have changed. The compelling needs that gave rise to the Global Health Council’s mission have shifted. Funding that once existed to promote a broad-based health agenda is now focused on specific health issues. The fundamental shifts in the health landscape have led the Board to revisit the relevance of the organization and determine that the Council’s current operating model is no longer sustainable.
We wish to thank our staff, leadership past and present and our members of the international community who have supported the Global Health Council for the last 40 years.
We have accomplished much together, but despite the progress we have made, millions of people, many of them children, remain without access to basic health care. Our commitment to them must not waver. Although The Global Health Council will no longer play the same role, we will continue to fight for the goals that first inspired us to action.
To offer comments of support for the Global Health Council, which may be posted online, please submit to information@globalhealth.org.
April 12, 2012 -
For nearly 40 years, the Global Health Council has held its Annual International Conference on Global Health in Washington, DC. This event convenes nearly 2,000 members of the global health community to discuss critical issues and identify common ground for action.
We appreciate that during tight budget times many members need to prioritize conferences they intend to attend and/or support. The same choices would need to be made by panelists, sponsors and participants. Rather than compete with other health causes and organizations whose missions we support, the Global Health Council Board has decided to cancel our 2012 Conference.
The Global Health Council will be returning sponsorships and early registrations to those who have signed up for the conference - we will process the refunds as quickly as possible and ask for your patience. We would like to thank the organizations and individuals who have submitted abstracts for the conference, those who dedicated time to review abstracts and to the sponsors who have committed to our event.
Please direct all inquiries to membership@globalhealth.org.
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Analyze US policy and budget priorities, strategies and progress
Engage the civil society and private sector on global health issues
Assess how links between research, policy and practice influence health care in communities
Initiative on Maternal, Newborn, Child and Reproductive Health Initiative on Global HIV/AIDS and Malaria Global health highlightsOur 40th Anniversary Campaign:
For 40 years, the Global Health Council has served as a voice for global health and a convener of global health policy stakeholders. This year, we celebrate the greatest achievements in global health, the successes and accomplishments of our members, and the contributions of the Global Health Council, and we prepare for the next 40 years!
Join us in this campaign:
- If your organization is a GHC member, send in a profile of your accomplishments
- Nominate and vote for the greatest achievement in global health in the past 40 years
- Donate to the Global Health Council, so that we can continue to advance global health issues - support our policy and research efforts, GHC's events and publications, the Annual International Conference on Global Health, GLOBAL HEALTH magazine, and our website and social media outreach.
- Become an organizational or individual member of the Global Health Council.
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