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GBCHealth news

  • 7 July 2023 • Nominations open for global awards

    Will you help us identify & celebrate global entrepreneurial organizations & individuals doing ground-breaking work in health? We’re looking for the global lodestars, multipliers, provocateurs, collaborators & futurists changing the face of global health. It takes 2 minutes to nominate someone. Tell us now….

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  • 12 June 2023 • Health Financing Report

    CEO Lesley-Anne Long was one of five five distinguished representatives drawn from academia, development, think tanks, the private sector & multilaterals to address the challenging subject of Financing Health for All in the context of scarcity, in collaboration with Global Health Hub & Healthy DEvelopment.

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  • 24-25 April 2023 • The Africa-UK Health Summit

    GBCHealth and partners hosted an event in London that brought together Ministers and Permanent Secretaries of Health from nine countries, philanthropists, CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, NHS health professionals, NGOs, and others to tackle some of the biggest health challenges of today.

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  • 24 April 2023 • Awarding African Innovators

    Two innovators shaping the future of health across Africa — each tackling unique health systems challenges faced within the continent — have been recognized with the GBCHealth future united africa award during an awards ceremony at the Africa-UK Health Summit in London in April.

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  • 20 April 2023 • What Needs to Change to Beat Malaria?

    In the leadup to World Malaria Day 2023, CAMA and partners convened key malaria stakeholders in Africa to catalyze progress and drive practical action in the fight to end malaria. This virtual discussion focused on what's needed to accelerate countries' progress toward attaining global goals for malaria.

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  • September 2022 • future united launches in New York

    future united - our newest initiative - was launched at a VIP event in New York with an awards ceremony. The awards celebrated five groundbreaking individuals / organizations leading the way in global health.

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  • January 2022 • Malaria & C19 - private sector case studies

    In order to illuminate how the private sector adapted workplace & community malaria programmes to respond to COVID-19, GBCHealth & CAMA worked with leading organizations to develop case studies, highlighting examples of good practice and proposing recommendations…

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  • December 2021 • The UK Government responds

    GBCHealth delivered a letter directly to No. 10, Downing Street, to plead with the UK Government to reinstate its commitment to ODA. The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office responded…

    read their response

Network news

  • Financing health for all in the context of scarcity

    June 2023 / CEO Lesley-Anne Long and four other five distinguished representatives - drawn from academia, think tanks, the private sector and multilateral institutions - address the challenge of healthcare financing set against the context of scarcity.

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  • Climate change & infectious diseases

    May 2023 / The Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) awarded nine projects with the Falcon Awards for Disease Elimination, providing them with funding to advance climate-infectious disease research to be showcased during COP28 in November 2023.

    view the winners

  • Advancing against antimicrobial resistance

    April 2023 / Antimicrobial resistance is a global killer, causing over a million deaths a year and significant social & economic harm. This latest report from Wilton Park, in collaboration with GBCHealth, seeks to reinvigorate the discussions around how to deliver coherent, effective AMR responses.

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  • Nigerian healthcare podcast

    May 2023 / GBCHealth President & CEO Lesley-Anne Long spoke with Nigerian leaders about the challenges and opportunities in the Nigerian healthcare system, and insights on how it can be improved to better serve the needs of the people.

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  • Invest, Innovate, Implement.

    April 2023 / For World Malaria Day 2023, new Vestergaard CEO Amar Ali discussed the opportunities for more sustained and integrated actions needed to deliver zero malaria, reflects on the progress the malaria community has made to date, and shares his thoughts on the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

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  • Calling on Congress.

    March 2023 / Leading companies including Vestergaard, Cepheid, Chevron, Coca Cola, Freight in Time, J&J, MacroEyes, ViiV Healthcare, Zenysis, Roche and more call on the US Congress to support a sustained and robust contribution to the Global Fund for 2024.

    read the letter

  • Supporting women-led health initiatives

    March 2023 / Female entrepreneurs are proven to make 35% better returns, yet currently receive less than 2% of venture capital. WiNFUND is helping to change that. Surrounding International Women's Day, GBCHealth co-hosting a private dinner alongside WiNFUND and other partners to support the initiative.

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Global health news

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    Since 2000, deaths from tuberculosis (TB) have dropped by ~40%, and yet it still kills 1.6 million people each year - so there is still work to be done.

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    The new SDG3 Global Action Plan 2023 Progress Report highlights transformational changes in the way we can work together to achieve health for all.

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    After three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems have started showing the first major signs of health system recovery, according a WHO interim report.

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