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Council Blogs Live From the G8 Summit



David Olson, the Global Health Council's Director of Policy Communications, is blogging all this week and sending updates via Twitter from the 2009 G8 Summit in Italy. Olson is participating in the civil society pre-meeting this week in Rome and will be on hand when the G8 leaders arrive in L'Aquila for the summit July 8-10. Olson will be writing about global health's inclusion in the G8 agenda and the participation of civil society.

The Global Health Council is one of only four U.S.-based non-governmental organizations taking part in the 2009 G8 Summit.

Olson's Blog4globalhealth posts are available here:

July 10 | Final Thoughts from L'Aquila

July 10 | A Brilliant Promotion of Maternal Health!

July 9 | What Obama Could Have Seen in Ghana

July 9 | G8 Talks the Talk but Does Not Meet Prior Pledge

July 9 | Is the G8 Meeting Its Targets?

July 9 | Mood of NGOs at L'Aquila Not Optimistic

July 7 | Global Health Makes the Cut in Rome

July 6 | Getting Health on the G8 Agenda

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More information, Events and Releases on the G8

Council Welcomes Communiqué, Calls on G8 To Deliver Pledges | July 9 news release

G8 Summit Official Site | website

Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) | Blogs and Twitter feeds on the summit

Center for Global Health Policy | Blogs on G8

Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center for Strategic
and International Studies | July 23 briefing invitation (will be webcast)

ONE Campaign's DATA Report 2009 | Monitoring the G8 Promise to Africa

Oxfam International | news release

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicolas Kristof | Would You Let This Girl Drown?
- July 8, G8 Commentary

The Sherpa | NGO activities at the G8