15 November 2022: Launch of G2H2 report “Financial Justice for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response”

Geneva Press Club and Zoom webinar

The report

The report “Financial Justice for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response” will be launched by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) on 15 November in Geneva. The report highlights the shortcomings of the international community in redirecting finance to support public health, including the robust funding of pandemic prevention preparedness and response.

While colossal wealth is potentially available to invest on global public health and managing any future pandemics, it is in the wrong hands. The pandemic emergency, with its associated socioeconomic and environmental crises, has revealed that the world is at a critical moment and that business as usual cannot be the way forward. The crisis has “opened a window for a radical redirection” (WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All) which may not be missed: The report by G2H2 proposes to rethink health through an economic and financial justice lens. 

The launch event

In a public event at the Geneva Press Club, on 15 November 2022, G2H2 released the report ‘Financial Justice for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response’, bringing a deeper understanding of the unspoken tension between the current international financial architecture and health financing models in the post COVID-19 scenario.

Programme
  • Welcome
    Thomas Schwarz, Geneva Global Health Hub
    Eva Wuchold, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
  • Presentation of the G2H2 report
    Nicoletta Dentico, Society for International Development
    Mariska Meurs, Wemos
    Baba Aye, Public Services international
  • Invited respondents
    Isabel Ortiz, Columbia University New York
    Owain Williams, University of Leeds
  • Discussion
    Event moderated by Priti Patnaik, Editor Geneva Health Files, Geneva

Recording

  • YouTube Video of the launch event: here

Contact

The G2H2 research and advocacy project that includes the publication of this report was sponsored by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS) with funds of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of the Federal Republic of Germany. This report or parts of it can be used by others for free as long as they provide a proper reference to the original publication. The content of the publication is the sole responsibility of the Geneva Global Health Hub and does not necessarily reflect the position of RLS.

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