Geneva Health Forum: Globalization, Crisis and Health Systems: Confronting Regional Perspectives, 19-21 April 2010, International Conference Center, Geneva

A joint initiative launched by the Geneva University Hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva in partnership with the main international organizations active in health in Geneva and around the world, the Geneva Health Forum and the Global Access to Health Platform bring together the major stakeholders in global access to health - from field workers to policy-makers. The Forum and the Platform together form a developing global network for international and inter-sectoral dialogue, which has the vision of facilitating the strengthening of health systems and basic health services, striving to keep global access to health on the international agenda.

In short, the following will be addressed and debated:
Crises reveal existing weaknesses and disparities and offer opportunities for health systems to function on new grounds.
Crises can be local, but are increasingly global in their reach, and their impacts on health systems call for critical examination.
Globalization tends to open new health services markets (structure, systems, workforce, insurances, etc.) which can engender reorganization and redistribution of roles within national health systems.
Exploring concrete examples of local and regional responses to crises and impacts of globalization offers a rich source from which innovative local and global approaches can be formulated
New forms of governance that include the numerous new local and global partners in health must be identified.
Information technologies facilitate the dissemination of information to increasingly diversified actors, local and global -- a phenomenon which poses new challenges and opportunities.

The International Hospital Federation is associated with the Geneva University Hospitals to organize a special session on International Hospital Partnership: Key to Community Development. This session will be held on Wednesday, the 21st in the afternoon.

For more information, see: www.genevahealthforum.org

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