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Global Health Diplomacy (GHD) Workshop 2023 was held online on 27-28 April, organized by International Health Policy Program (IHPP) of Ministry of Public Health, Thailand in collaboration with the WHO Country Cooperation Strategy on Enhancing Leadership in Global Health (Enlight) and GLO+UHC2. The objective of the workshop was to deepen the understanding of the global health movement, directions and platforms, WHO’s structure and mandate, and the new global health architecture. In addition, the workshop aimed to share the experience on global health, and to develop the capacity on global health of the participants as a country’s delegate to international meetings.

GHD Workshop 2023 provided seven sessions* and around 70 participants from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia and Maldives, joined. GLO+UHC2 supported to invite Japanese resource persons to GHD Workshop as a lecturer/panelist. Three Japanese resource persons from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, National Center for Global Health and Medicine and Tokyo Women’s Medical University, provided lectures on “Japan’s experience on global health,” “Global directions related to SDGs” and “The new global health architecture,” respectively. Furthermore, GLO+UHC2 contributed to sharing experience gained from project activities, gave a presentation about “The significance of collaboration and the importance of partnership in the context of SDGs” and joined the panel discussions with other Thai lecturers.

* The list of sessions

1. Global health definition, movement
2. Global health platforms
3. World Health Organization (WHO)
4. Country experience in Global Health
5. Global direction: SDGs
6. The new global health architecture
7. Outside-in and Inside-Out

The project would be pleased if the GHD Workshop 2023 could help participants deepen their understanding and broaden their views on global health, and lead to further promotion of global health agenda.

We would like to thank all the participants, lecturers, panelists, facilitators and organizers for joining and supporting GHD Workshop 2023. We also would like to express our sincere gratitude to IHPP for providing us with the opportunity to connect with the participants.