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Addressing the deficiencies of globalisation

Axel R Pries and Frederike Sontag, World Health Summit p08

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2.1

An ‘off the shelf’ cure for fragmentation?

Achim Steiner, administrator, United Nations Development Programme p12

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTIONS

2.2

The patchwork of global health policymaking

Ilona Kickbusch, founding director, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies p14

PROMOTED CONTENT

Generative AI and the impact on health equity

Vanessa Huang, general partner, and Dr Zhi Yang, chair, BVCF p20

Integrating global health governance for a fragmented world

John Kirton, director, Global Governance Program p16

SPOTLIGHT ON PARTNERSHIPS

Global health security and diplomacy in the 21st century

John Nkengasong, US global AIDS coordinator and senior bureau official for the Global Health Security and Diplomacy Bureau p22

3.1

A healthier future in sight

Katsunobu Kato, former minister of health, labour and welfare, Japan p24

PROMOTED CONTENT

AI’s transformative potential to improve global health equity

Karen DeSalvo, chief health officer, and Ivor Horn, chief health equity officer, Google p26

3.2

A view from the Global South Mansukh Mandaviya, union minister of health and family welfare, India p28

3.3

From crisis to partnership

Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety p30

3.4

G20 and G7 convergence key for a new global health order

Hatice Beton, executive director, G20 and G7 Health and Development Partnership p32

3.5 The climate crisis is a health crisis

Vanessa Kerry, WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health p34

Spotlight On Financing

A new financial platform

Catharina Boehme, assistant director-general, External Relations and Governance, World Health Organization, and Thomas Östros, vice president, European Investment Bank p36