Posts Tagged ‘Global health’

LizBryan
Liz
Bryan

Spectrum Infection: The U.S. Global Health Initiative: How Can they Measure Results to Create More Success?

Friday, April 16th, 2010
The U.S. Global Health Initiative: Issues and Perspectives Panel

The U.S. Global Health Initiative: Issues and Perspectives Panel

One year ago this May, President Obama announced the formation of the Global Health Initiative (GHI), a $63 billion project spanning six years dedicated to developing a comprehensive U. S global health strategy. With a focus on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), malaria and other global health issues, the GHI brings together multiple government agencies to strengthen health systems and fight diseases around the world.

Earlier this week I attended a panel discussion and forum organized by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in which three senior-level government officials involved in the GHI addressed key issues ranging from implementation challenges to promoting country ownership of GHI initiatives, to budget allocations, to the GHI's increased focus on women's health issues.

As the panel spoke and answered audience questions, one theme caught my attention again and again: the need for the GHI to better measure and capitalize on their successes, apply them to existing and expanded platforms and push for results. (more...)

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kmaynard
Katherine
Maynard

Living Proof Event

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Some good news to share - Bill and Melinda Gates swept into town last night to say thank you - to the U.S. taxpayer. At a talk last night in D.C. they spoke about the success of their Living Proof Project, a series of global health initiatives that are demonstrating measurable results by saving millions of lives. The Gates stressed the importance of U.S. funding of global health projects and actively sought to illustrate the results of the investments made and to illuminate the importance of public/private partnerships. To name just a few of the advances made:  (more...)

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jseng
John
Seng

Annual Meeting, Global Perspective

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

April 2nd - 3rd, GLOBALHealth PR agency heads, including Spectrum's CEO and Chair of GLOBALHealthPR John Seng, met for the annual face-to-face planning meeting.  Here is John's take on the trip.ghpr

I visited Italy with my colleague Rosalba Cano for the 8th Annual General Meeting of our GLOBALHealthPR partners, and hardly two days after the meeting ended in Venice, the earthquake struck the town of L'Aquila, which is much closer to Rome. (Martin Slater, the president of our Italy partner firm Noesis, suggested the Italian Red Cross among reliable relief organizations for readers interested in supporting assistance efforts.)

From Japan to the US to Latin America and throughout Europe, our partners connected to discuss our individual company performances for 2008, our prospects for 2009 and beyond, and to take a closer look at the different pharmaceutical approval and marketing regulatory environments for each of the 10 markets covered by GLOBALHealthPR worldwide.

For readers who don't know, GLOBALHealthPR is the largest health-focused network of independent public relations firms that collaborate on an international basis. Spectrum Washington is the network's headquarters. (more...)

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