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Global Health Council Policy Series



The Global Health Council Policy Series provides a platform for global health advocates and practitioners to inform and engage in global health policy through congressional briefings, educational forums, and policy dinner dialogues.

Policy Series Events

Upcoming Policy Series Events

Please visit Council News for any upcoming events.

Policy Dinners
UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid was featured at the first policy dinner of 2010The Global Health Council holds invitation-only dinners bringing together senior level representatives of the NGO community, Congress, corporate leaders, the Administration, and key international policymakers to meet with prominent global health figures. These dinners provide a forum for attendees to discuss critical global health issues in a congenial, relaxed, off-the-record environment and an opportunity to set the groundwork for future working relationships.

Past Policy Dinner Featured Guests include:
  • Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director, United Nations Populations Fund

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health

  • Dr. Joy Pumaphi, Vice President and Head of Human Development Network, World Bank

  • Dr. Anders Nordström, Former Assistant Director General- Health Systems and Services, Former Acting Director-General, WHO

  • The Honorable Joseph Crowley (D-NY), United States House of Representatives

  • Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt, Executive Secretary, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI)

  • Dr. Francisco Songane, Director, The Partnership for Maternal, Child and Newborn Health

  • The Honorable Betty McCollum (D-MN), United States House of Representatives, Co-Chair Congressional Global Health Caucus

  • Ambassador Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

  • Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS

  • The Honorable Mike DeWine, Former US Senator (R-OH)

  • Ambassador Mark Dybul
Congressional Briefings
2009 post-conflict congressional briefingThe Global Health Council's educational and technical congressional briefings bring clear and sound information on critical health-related issues in the developing world to U.S. policymakers. They provide an opportunity for representatives from the field to put a human face on key global health issues currently facing Congress.

Past congressional briefings & events include: Partner Forums
Dr. Christopher Murray of the University of Washington speaks at a Partners Fourm on global health financingGlobal Health Partner Forums offer the opportunity for the global health community, including our NGO members and others in the Washington, D.C. area, to meet with experts in the field. Partner Forums build bridges between the NGO community - which so often supports and advocates for the work done in the field - and field practitioners themselves.

If you would like to submit a Partners Forum idea please contact the director of Policy Communications, David J. Olson.

Past partners forums include:

The Global Health Council Policy Series is funded in part through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
and with unrestricted educational support from the Abbott Fund and Novartis.