In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere. Complex public health emergencies demand a collective response with high-level political and diplomatic engagement at both the national and global levels. In 2009, when I was Health Minister, we re-engineered our business processes to examine the weaknesses and opportunities in our health system. The number of actors in global health governance and service delivery has grown exponentially over the past two decades. This proliferation of other global health institutions is actually an opportunity, creating a multiplier effect for great impact in improving health worldwide.

Source: Huffington Post January 15, 2017 20:10 UTC