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ArticleAnnals of global health2025

Reimagining Global Health: Accelerating Change for a Sustainable Future.

Melissa Salm, Ala Alwan, Maureen Lichtveld, Patricia J García, Peter H Kilmarx, Nelson K Sewankambo, Rebecca Martin, Tahmeed Ahmed, Judith N Wasserheit

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Article in Annals of global health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Melissa SalmDepartment of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 207 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA.
Ala AlwanDirector Emeritus, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo 11371, Egypt.
Maureen LichtveldSchool of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 130 De Soto St., Pittsburgh, PA 15261 USA.
Patricia J GarcíaSchool of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Honorio Delgado 430, Urb Ingeniería, Lima, Peru.
Peter H KilmarxFogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, MSC 2220, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
Nelson K SewankamboMakerere University College of Health Sciences, P.O. Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda.
Rebecca MartinEmory Global Health Institute, 1599 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA.
Tahmeed AhmedICDDR,B, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.
Judith N WasserheitDepartment of Global Health, University of Washington School of Public Health, 3980 15th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98105 USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2023, an interdisciplinary group of global health experts from five continents convened a plenary panel at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) annual conference entitled "Reimagining Global Health for the 21st Century." At the heart of this viewpoint article lies a fundamental question: How can we reimagine global health to best confront existing challenges and meet the demands of the future? To fully assess the scope of global health challenges and identify sustainable solutions, a clear definition of the aims and strategic approaches is needed. Such an assessment is also critical for progress in promoting equity, including decolonizing global health. Key issues examined are the following: equity, governance, research, education, and sustainability. To assure a sustainable global health enterprise, we propose the following three strategic imperatives as guiding principles: a holistic, unified approach grounded in mutual benefit, joint investment, long‑term collaborative commitment, and solidarity across low‑ to middle‑income countries (LMICs) and high‑income countries (HICs); joint priority setting of investments in research, education, practice, and workforce development; and collaborative governance, maximizing a multisectoral approach among local, national, regional, and global strategies. The viewpoint sets the stage for the development of an action roadmap to develop a unified concept of global health; identify strategies to ensure sustained funding for global health research, education and training, and practice; establish benchmarks and metrics to measure progress; and design a collaborative governance system to promote interconnectedness and engagement among local, regional, national, and global stakeholders.

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Global HealthSustainable DevelopmentDeveloping CountriesForecastingHumansInternational CooperationeducationequitygovernanceReimagining global healthresearchsustainable future

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PMID39896102
PMCPMC11784496

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