European Commission, 30 November 2022
EU Global Health Strategy: Better Health for All in a Changing World
The experience of recent years, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic, has highlighted as never before that health has no borders: it is a global common good. The well-being and lives of citizens, the prosperity and stability of societies and economies, and sustainable development in general, all depend on addressing health from this perspective. Global health is an essential pillar of EU external policy, a critical sector geopolitically and central to the EU’s open strategic autonomy.
Since the EU’s last 2010 Communication on the EU role in global health, health challenges are fast evolving— in an equally rapidly-changing geopolitical environment.
More than ever before global health is being impacted by the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and pollution, with a particularly heavy burden on most vulnerable countries and people. At the same time, new opportunities linked to areas like research or digitalisation have arisen. A robust Global Health Strategy (“the strategy”) is needed to provide a new, coherent, effective and focused policy worldwide.