EU Global Health Strategy: Better Health for All in a Changing World

Summary:

Communication adopted by the European Commission on 30 November 2022, aimed at improving global health security and deliver better health for all in a changing world.

Further information:

The experience of recent years - particularly the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic - highlighted the cross-border nature of health issues. Since the 2010 Communication on the EU's role in global health, challenges fast evolved in an equally rapidly-changing geopolitical environment. It was therefore deemed necessary to set out a new Global Health Strategy.

This strategy represents the external dimension of the EU's European Health Union and it is a key component of the Global Gateway. The EU's role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic showed that it can make a major contribution to global objectives with a Team Europe approach. The main message of this strategy is that the European Union (EU) intends to reassert its responsibility and deepen its leadership in the interest of the highest attainable standards of health, based on fundamental values.

The Communication focuses on three core priorities:

• Investing in the well-being of all people;
• Reaching universal health coverage with stronger health systems;
• Tackling current and future health threats.

It offers an agenda leading up to 2030. It sets policy priorities, provides for 20 guiding principles to shape global health, makes lines of action that operationalise those principles, and creates a new monitoring framework to assess effectiveness and impact of EU policies and funding. It outlines what the European Commission seeks to do and what it invites Member States to do.

The Communication was adopted by the European Commission on 30 November 2022, alongside the first State of Health Preparedness Report.

Official

European Commission: Press Release, 30/11/2022: EU Global Health Strategy to improve global health security and deliver better health for all https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_7153

European Commission: Questions & answers: EU Global Health Strategy (30 November 2022) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_22_7126

European Commission: Press remarks by High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell, Commissioners Kyriakides and Urpilainen on EU Global Health Strategy (30 November 2022) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_22_7317

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News

EurActiv, 28/11/2022: Commission’s global health strategy to expand EU’s role worldwide https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/leak-commissions-global-health-strategy-to-expand-eus-role-worldwide/

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