GLOBAL HEALTH & HUMAN SECURITY
2007–Present
JCIE’s Global Health and Human Security Program builds international cooperation to tackle many of the world’s most pressing health challenges. Program activities advocate for strong Japanese leadership on global health, mobilize world leaders to help make health systems in low and middle-income countries more resilient, and advance universal health coverage in the world’s poorest countries. Dialogues and studies organized as part of this initiative have played a historic role in elevating global health on Japan’s foreign policy agenda, starting with the 2008 Toyako G8 Summit and continuing to this day.
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PROGRAM NEWS
The Biden-Suga Summit: Cooperation to Enhance Support for the ACT Accelerator
April 26, 2021 | Washington DC
On April 16, 2021 President Joseph Biden of the United States and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan held a meeting in Washington DC. The two exchanged opinions on important issues between the Uni…
The GFF and Prospects for Maternal and Child Health Services in Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis
December 21, 2020 | Online
The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) organized a special roundtable in conjunction with International Universal Health Coverage Day (on December 12) to highlight the work of the Global F…
Japan-US Dialogue | Harnessing New Technologies to Battle COVID-19
October 1, 2020 | Online
The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE/USA) and the Consulate General of Japan in New York co-hosted a special webinar featuring Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize i…
GFF Seminar Series | The Global Financing Facility in the COVID-19 Crisis
August 27, 2020 | Online
JCIE launched the GFF Seminar series in 2020 as part of its efforts to deepen understanding of how the Japanese government, NGOs, and others can coordinate more effectively with the GFF in order to st…
JCIE Webinar | Global Health Diplomacy, Seen from the Perspective of Dr. Satoshi Ezoe
July 30, 2020 | Online
JCIE invited Dr. Satoshi Ezoe, the newly appointed Head of the Global Health Policy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), to an engaging discussion on the landscape of the United Nations…
The Significance of Private Donations in the Global COVID-19 Response
July 15, 2020 | Online
JCIE held a virtual meeting to deepen the understanding of COVID-19’s global impact and the important role the WHO plays in the global response. The discussion featured Naoko Yamamoto, assistant direc…
Global Health Diet Roundtable | Update on the Regional COVID-19 Situation
April 21, 2020 | Virtual
On April 21, JCIE held its Fifth Global Health Diet Roundtable where more than a dozen Diet members were briefed on the current global COVID-19 situation by World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pac…
GFF Seminar Series | Introducing the Global Financing Facility
February 13, 2020 | Tokyo
JCIE launched the GFF Seminar series in 2020 as part of its efforts to deepen understanding of how the Japanese government, NGOs, and others can coordinate more effectively with the GFF in order to st…
Reformulating Japan's Global Health ODA to Meet Changing Global Needs
January 30, 2020 | Bangkok, Thailand
More than 30 senior government officials, health experts, and leaders from international organizations gathered to discuss the direction Japan should take to improve its developmental assistance for h…
Next Steps on UHC—Moving Forward from the G20 and HLM-UHC
September 24, 2019 | New York
JCIE, in cooperation with the UN Foundation, convened a small, high-level roundtable of global health experts and policymakers on the morning after the UN High-Level Meeting on UHC to discuss what the…
JCIE Organizes Side Meetings to Advance Global Health Dialogue at TICAD7
August 28–31, 2019 | Yokohama, Japan
JCIE co-organized three official side events during TICAD7, building on the momentum of the week to advance policy dialogue around key global health issues such as sustainable financing of universal h…
Achieving Sustainable Financing for Health in Africa
August 29, 2019 | Yokohama, Japan
On August 29, JCIE co-organized an event on Achieving Sustainable Financing for Health in Africa on the sidelines of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7). The eve…
Towards Population Ageing in Africa
August 29, 2019 | Yokohama, Japan
Held on the sidelines of the 7th Tokyo International Conference of African Development (TICAD7), this event brought together influential policymakers, NGO representatives, and academicians for a dialo…
Health Workforce Investment as a Driver of UHC and Economic Development
August 28, 2019 | Yokohama, Japan
On the sidelines of TICAD7, JCIE partnered with IntraHealth International to organize this side event. Over 120 participants took part in a discussion on the wide-ranging benefits of health workforce…
Global Health Diet Roundtable | Achieving the SDGs in Maternal and Child Health—The Global Financing Facility and Japan
August 28, 2019 | Tokyo, Japan
JCIE held its 4th Global Health Diet Roundtable on the sidelines of the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7), convening six up-and-coming leaders of the Japanese Diet for…
PUBLICATIONS
The Time Has Come for a COVID-19 Marshall Plan
James Gannon
May 25, 2021
“In his announcement of COVID-19 vaccine donations, President Biden evoked World War II by vowing that the U.S. will be the world’s “arsenal of vaccines.” It is time to instead harken back to the imme…
Japan’s Global Health Diplomacy in the Post-COVID Era—The Paradigm Shift Needed on ODA and Related Policies
Special Commission on Japan’s Strategy on Development Assistance for Health
2020 & 2021
A report from a high-level commission organized by JCIE calls for the Japanese government to better coordinate and strategize its health ODA by creating a centralized “control tower” and to double fun…
Japan's Friendship with the US Remains Unshakable
Koji Tomita
March 11, 2021
This opinion piece was written by Ambassador Koji Tomita, who references a 2016 JCIE survey on US givings in the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami disaster response.
US-Japan Cooperation on COVID-19 with James Gannon
January 28, 2021
Jim Gannon, Executive Director of JCIE/USA, discusses Japan’s COVID-19 response and the expanding potential of the US-Japan cooperation in this episode of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center’s “Asia in Was…
Global Health Needs US-Japan Partnership
James Gannon
December 18, 2020
Jim Gannon, Executive Director of JCIE/USA, calls for greater US-Japan partnership on pandemic response and global health in this piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Asia Unbound blog, pointin…
JCIE Publications | Hopes and Challenges for the Global Financing Facility: Toward the Realization of the SDGs
Prepared by Shiori Nagatani, Tomoko Yoshida, Tomoko Suzuki, and James Gannon
2020
With the goal of fostering the understanding of the GFF among people involved in global health and developmental assistance in Japan, JCIE conducted…
We Need to Do Better–Perspectives on the Global Response to COVID-19
An Interview with Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez
June 25, 2020
A noted figure in the global health community, Ariel Pablos-Méndez led USAID’s health programming during the 2014–2016 Ebola crisis as assistant administrator for global health, and he has been on the…
Survey of Japanese Legislators: Attitudes on ODA and Global Health
Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE)
June 2020
A JCIE survey of Japanese legislators finds that 80 percent of the 92 respondents favor steps to increase Japan’s official development assistance (ODA), with most prioritizing funding for health progr…
A UHC Approach to Harmonizing Asian Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Regulations
Task Force for Promoting Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Regulatory Harmonization in Asia, Executive Committee on Global Health and Human Security
2020
The recommendations of JCIE’s Task Force for Promoting Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Regulatory Harmonization in Asia examines specific areas Japan should tackle in order to promote regulatory har…
Recommendations on Formulating a Grand Design for Asian Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Regulatory Harmonization
Executive Committee on Global Health and Human Security, JCIE
2019
The recommendations of JCIE’s Task Force for Promoting Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Regulatory Harmonization in Asia highlight a need for regulatory harmonization and cross-sectoral cooperation.
Advancing a Global Health Agenda in the SDG Era: Enhancing Japan’s Leadership Role in 2019–2020
International Advisory Group on Global Health (IAG)
November 2018
In 2019 and 2020, Japan hosts a range of critical international meetings, from the G20 Summit to the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7), and the Nutrition for Growth S…
Protecting Human Security: Proposals for the G7 Ise-Shima Summit in Japan
Global Health Working Group for the 2016 G7 Summit
May 21, 2016
In this article in the prestigious Lancet, the Japan Global Working Group offers comprehensive policy recommendations on three areas for global health action by the G7 countries to enhance human secur…
Health, Resilience, and Human Security: Moving Toward Health for All
Marcelo Korc, Susan Hubbard, Tomoko Suzuki, and Masamine Jimba
2016
This report identifies seven principles of human security and key features of successful human security approaches, in order to explain to health and development field experts what a human security ap…
Lessons from Japan's T-Shaped Approach to TB
Interview with Keizo Takemi, Member, House of Councillors of Japan
December 15, 2015
An interview with JCIE Senior Fellow Keizo Takemi (Member, House of Councillors) investigates the effectiveness of a “T-shaped” approach to global health by examining Japan’s use of this method in dea…
Are Disease-Specific Approaches Compatible with the Goal of Achieving Universal Health Coverage?
Maya Wedemeyer, JCIE/USA
December 14, 2015
In a world with finite resources, it is difficult to prioritize between focused, disease-specific intervention programs and programs to build the systemic foundations for access to a basic package of…