Health and Foreign policy
The project aims to explore the mutual interrelatedness between health and foreign policy.Participants
Øyvind Eggen
Ole Jacob Sending
Center for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI)
Fiocruz Center for Global Health (CRIS) in Brazil
South Africa Institute of International Affairs
Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia
Harvard University.
The project will seek evidence on how high level commitments to global health impacts on other realms in foreign policy like trade, development and humanitarian response, and how those responses impact on the capacity of states to protect and promote life and health of their citizens.
The specific objectives are:
1. To identify and discuss current academic debates on the relationships between the global health and foreign policies, including the concepts of global health diplomacy and global health governance.
2. To identify and map current gaps, opportunities and challenges in the interface between global and national health governance systems and governance systems in overlapping foreign policy realms, such as trade, development, and humanitarian responses.
3. To identify knowledge needs and gaps that would be useful to investigate further in order to inform policy development and formulations.
4. To suggest frameworks and approaches for how to measure the impact of various foreign policy domains on health outcomes, as well as the effect of global health policies on foreign policy processes, formulations and achievements/outcomes.
Funding
The project is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Norad.
