Before I talk about that however, I think it's incrucial, crucial for
you to understand a little bit about the global health system.
I have students here, at Duke,
asking me all the time what the global health, what is the global health system?
And my answer is, well, honestly there isn't really a system per se,
in a formalized sense.
I think we could say that there's more of a landscape.
And by that I mean that there are a collection of global health actors.
Who all have the common goal of improving health outcomes whether that's locally,
nationally, regionally, or internationally.
Now many times these actors work together on solving problems.
Sometimes they work independently.
Once in a while, unfortunately, they work antagonistically to each other.
As happens, with, with, with any time you're dealing with many organizations.
And these actors work within, really, an ever evolving set of norms, laws,
strategies, relationships and even power dynamics.
And dynamics, that is, always depend on levels of funding for health.
But actors have goals and
challenges, as you can imagine from what I said in our former slide.
Now obviously the goal of global health actors is to
increase health as a public good.
To not only mobilize people, and organizations, and countries to
work in ways to improve health, but also mobilize other types of action as well.
Whether that is a political action for a health cause.
Actors strive for health sustainability, and they also strive to be good stewards.
Funds and good stewards of, of the trust that they have from people.
And also the the stewardship to be governments well, to govern themselves.
And to work again, going back to the public goods for the public good.