Salzburg Seminar on Global Governance of Health

Salzburg, Austria
December 5th - 8th, 2005

Systems of governance structure social relations, environmental conditions and the allocation of resources essential to well-being.  It is plain that the nation state is not the only force engaged in the government of conduct. Professions, NGOs and other institutions of civil society are orchestrating the course of events in health as in other areas. Many of the entities created by the funding from these actors take on the form of “health partnerships,” a new breed of institutions that often have ambiguous hierarchical frameworks and unproven participatory structures. All this puts pressure on institutions and governance networks designed in a different time for different conditions.

The Salzburg Seminar on Global Governance of Health in Salzburg, Austria will brought together global thinkers and leaders for focused discussion of the state of health governance today.  The aim of the summit was to facilitate the organization of new initiatives in global health governance practice, research and theory.   Temple Law School 's Scott Burris and Leo Beletsky worked with partners Derek Yach and Jennifer Ruger at Global Health Program, Yale School of Medicine and Michael Borowitz, Ellen Liu, and Sam Avrett at Open Society Institute on conceptualizing and convening this high-profile event.

Salzburg Conference Report

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