Ole Petter Ottersen visited Monday 23 April the President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet to discuss global health challenges. On the agenda was the work of the The Lancet - University of Oslo Commission and Panel on global governance for health.
The first meeting of The Independent Panel on Global Governance for Health took place on 15 - 16 December 2014 at the University of Oslo.
This was the title of the closing session of a two days "Meeting of Global Health Policy Think Tanks and Academic Institutions" which took place in Geneva 12 - 13 November 2015. Prof. Desmond McNeill discussed the work of the Panel at a parallell session on Trade and Health at the WTO during the meeting.
Former Commission Chair, Professor Ole Petter Ottersen presented the work of The Lancet - UiO Commission at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) in Bangkok on 30 January 2015. The topic of this year's conference was "Global Health Post 2015: Accelerating Equity".
The report of The Lancet – University of Oslo Commission; «The Political Origins of Health Inequity: Prospects for Change» is not going unnoticed around the world.
The University of Oslo Independent Panel on Global Governance for Health would like to express their appreciation to all those who have made submissions to the first call for evidence - on the health impacts of trade and investment treaties.
This is the title of the recently published article building on the work of The Lancet - University of Oslo Youth Commission on Global Governance for Health.
We are organising the Side-Event: “Trade and investment agreements: the threat to people’s health” at the WTO Ministerial Conference December 16th, 2015.
