An intensive, five-day course is being delivered in June 2014 by the Global Health Programme in response to the demand for new skills, as health moves beyond its purely technical realm to become an ever more critical element in foreign policy, security policy and trade agreements.
This year's course will explore current debates at the interface between foreign policy, trade and human rights, the post-2015 development agenda, the role of health in recent trade agreements and new issues in diplomacy such as multi-stakeholder diplomacy and digital diplomacy. Through a multidisciplinary learning process, academics and practitioners will share their expertise on health-related negotiations, including international law mechanisms to develop new agreements. A negotiation simulation and skill-building activities will facilitate the real-life background discussion, along with a high-level introduction to the field of global health diplomacy and key challenges at the national, regional and global levels.
The course is aimed at professionals from different backgrounds, such as health attachés and other diplomats with a portfolio impacting on health, health and international relations professionals in departments of international health, as well as representatives of international organisations, NGOs, philanthropic organisations and the private sector.
Since 2007, more than 150 diplomats and health professionals have benefited from this course, which focuses on health diplomacy and negotiations, with a new thematic emphasis each year.
Course Facutly
The course will be dircted by Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the Global Health Programme. This year's opening lecture will be delivered by Dr. Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund to fight Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis and former United States Global AIDS Coordinator, leading the implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
You can download the course flyer (pdf).
Watch video testimonials from participants on last year's course.
Find out more information on the course content, fee, and application process here.
Or contact globalhealthdiplomacy@graduateinstitute.ch for further inquiries.
Application deadline: 1 April 2014