Spreading the word about "The Political Origins of Health Inequity"

Since its publication in The Lancet on 11 February 2014, the report has been cited 58 times and has been translated into both Portuguese and Spanish. According to ScienceDirect, the report “has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of articles from the same journal published in the same time period” (1).

As chair of the Commission, Ole Petter Ottersen has been invited to present the work of the Commission at several conferences and seminars around the world. He and other commissioners have also published academic and newspaper articles reemphasising the message of the Commission to see health inequity as a global, political challenge that can only be addressed through multisectoral action.

An overview of some of the presentations given by Ottersen can be found below:

• 7 May 2014 at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Seminar on “Post2015: the next era of global governance? Health as an indicator and outcome for all post-2015 goals”.

• 15 May 2014 – Presentation at the “Partnership for Change” Conference, Oslo

• 30 May 2014: Presentation of report and launch of Portuguese version in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Organised by Commissioner Dr Paulo Buss.

• 1 July 2014:  Seminar at the Norwegian Mission in New York, in collaboration with Colombia University on "Global health governance: the root cause of health inequalities?", and meetings with Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen  at UNFPA and with Paul Gulleik Larsen at the UN delegation.

• 30 October 2014 – Seminar at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, USA.

• 10 November 2014 – Presentation at “Health Summit: Governance for Health in a Changing World”, 10-11 November 2014, at Lindisfarne Centre, Durham University.

• 26 November 2014 – Presentation and panel debate at Polyteknisk forening at Vitenskapsakademiet, Oslo.

• 30 January 2015 – Key speaker and moderator at PMAC conference in Thailand. Commissioners Sigrun Møgedal and Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong in the panel.

• 9 – 10 February 2015 – Presentation at Cape Town University, South Africa.

• 23 – 24 March 2015  – Presentation for the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean (ECLAC)  and meeting with President Bachelet in Santiago de Chile.

• 7 May 2015 – Presentation at the "Partnership for Change" conference in Oslo.