Dr. Vanessa Kerry on Why the Future of Global Health Must Be Country-Led
Global health is at a turning point. While leaders around the world increasingly agree that countries should lead their own health agendas, many health systems are still weighed down by overlapping donor requirements, disconnected programs, and funding structures that make care harder to deliver.
New research from Seed Global Health and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health examines what happens when too many global initiatives compete instead of aligning and what it takes to build stronger, more resilient health systems moving forward.
At the World Health Assembly in Geneva, our CEO Dr. Vanessa Kerry joined Foreign Policy CEO Andrew Sollinger at the Foreign Policy Health Forum to discuss the findings and why investing in health workers and stronger health systems is essential not only for responding to crises, but for delivering quality care every day.
The conversation explored a central question facing global health today: how do we collectively create the conditions for countries to lead, sustain, and strengthen their health systems over time?
Watch the discussion here
You can also read here the accompanying Foreign Policy op-ed by Dr. Kerry and Uganda’s Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, on why the next era of global health must be built around national systems and country-led reform.
