The Australian Global Health Alliance is delighted to welcome Chemonics as its first international development managing contractor member. Chemonics’ commitment to partnership-led, evidence-based, and locally-grounded global health programming and collaborations is a natural fit with the Alliance’s own values, and we look forward to seeing them engage with the Alliance’s community, networks, and expertise […]
CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Advisory Board member, Australian Global Health Alliance The Australian Global Health Alliance (“the Alliance”) is the national peak body for global health organisations. Founded in 2016 on the principles of promoting partnership for health equity, sustainable development and that advancing First Nations health and Planetary Health are integral to global […]
MEDIA RELEASE : 23 February 2023 The Australian Global Health Alliance and Pacific Friends of Global Health have strongly endorsed Australia’s renewed effort to help build resilient and equitable health systems in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. Under a five year, $620 million package known as Partnerships for a Healthy Region, Australia will seek to help restore […]
In light of recent events, The Australian Global Health Alliance holds grave concerns for the health and wellbeing of all Iranian people, particularly for the health, safety and rights of women and girls. The Alliance strongly condemns the ongoing violence and suppression of free speech in Iran and the limited access to health resources for […]
In December 2022, The Australian Global Health Alliance, hosted jointly by the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, addressed the ongoing women’s revolution in Iran, ignited by the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini in police custody in September 2022. Our webinar featured a crucial discussion with three prominent female Iranian academics, who shared insights […]
In 2022, we convened our Congress with an expert panel to discuss pressing issues such as the lived experiences of floods and heatwaves in Australia and the region. The panel emphasized the need for integrating and respecting diverse knowledge systems, including those of global and First Nations communities, and examined the effectiveness of communication platforms […]
The Alliance undertook a consultation with members in November 2022 to prepare a submission into DFAT’s new international development policy. Key messages: Global Health is ultimately the health of all of us – not some of us and is affected by and in turn affects, social, legal, political, ecological, and commercial determinants health which require […]
Guidance on safely hosting in-person events during peak COVID-19 transmission periods VIEW IN PDF The Australian Global Health Alliance acknowledges the value and importance of interacting in-person for the continuation of some of our work. As the peak body for global health organisations in Australia, we have a responsibility to conduct our events safely. We […]
The Australian Global Health Alliance welcomes increased investment in overseas aid to address immediate COVID-19 and other global health challenges, and calls for a focus on health equity within a longer term vision to meet the growing challenges our region faces now and in the future. The 2022-23 Official Development Assistance budget will support a […]
Wednesday 30 March 2022 The Australian Global Health Alliance welcomes increased investment in overseas aid to address the immediate COVID-19 crisis and other global health battles, and calls for a focus on health equity with a longer term vision to meet the growing challenges our region faces now and in the future. The 2022-23 Official […]
Australia’s leading epidemiologists, global health, business, development and aid organisations have united to call on the Federal Government to urgently ramp up its global vaccination efforts following the emergence of the Omicron variant. The coalition, brought together by End COVID For All, includes the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Global Health Alliance, Burnet Institute, […]
Thursday, December 2, 2021 Australia’s leading epidemiologists, global health, business, development and aid organisations have united to call on the Federal Government to urgently ramp up its global vaccination efforts following the emergence of the Omicron variant. The coalition, brought together by End COVID For All, includes the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Global […]
Thursday, December 2, 2021 Australia’s leading epidemiologists, global health, business, development and aid organisations have united to call on the Federal Government to urgently ramp up its global vaccination efforts following the emergence of the Omicron variant. The coalition, brought together by End COVID For All, includes the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Global […]
GENEVA – The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today unanimously approved a new response mechanism to support countries to respond to COVID-19 and mitigate the impact on programs to fight HIV, TB, malaria and systems for health, effectively doubling the amount of available funding to up to US$1 billion. The […]
