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Health as Foreign Policy is rising on international political agendas, and is an emerging research area.

Global health is a cross-cutting challenge: Countries engage with the international community to protect the health of its citizens; Countries use health care as an instrument to attain foreign policy goals such as peace and poverty-reduction; Countries, industry and other non-state actors are shaping a complex international health architecture as part of a broader global governance agenda that also relates to technology and trade.

Health emergencies are perceived as dramatic catastrophic events and humanitarian crises. Less attention is on the gradual erosion of individual and public health, through incapacity or neglect, culminating in the need for urgent reaction. These issues will be addressed at this one-day seminar, with a broad range of international experts invited to comment.

Programme:

Part 1: Understanding health as foreign policy

Part 2: Global and local agendas

Part 3: Health care as the benevolent side of the state

_{Full programme "here}":http://www.leve.uio.no/english/news-and-events/events/2009/health-as-foreign-policy-nov27.html

Key Note Speakers:

Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway):
Health as a Foreign Policy Issue. Why is Norway taking an active role and what has been achieved?

Guillaume Lachenal, Lecturer, Université Paris Diderot (France):
New global paradigms, local needs and political borders

Jan Egeland, Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief (Norway):
The role of health care in fragile states and what the international community can do to improve.

_{For other speakers see "full programme}":http://www.leve.uio.no/english/news-and-events/events/2009/health-as-foreign-policy-nov27.html

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