I just wanted to draw your eyes towards the “We recommend” spot this week, which highlights the new five-year global health strategy published by the UK government. Launched last week in collaboration with The Lancet and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the document is something of a first in that it addresses the challenges of global health from a cross-departmental perspective, including those of security, development, and trade.

It identifies five areas for action: health security, strong and fair systems for health, more effective international health organisations, freer and fairer trade, and strengthening the way we develop and use evidence to improve policy and practice. It then lays out a plan for tackling them. The strategy will be reassessed in 2013.

Zoë Mullan

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