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 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…
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…
Global Health Diet Roundtable | Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)―The Japanese Expertise Needed Now
June 11, 2019 | Tokyo, Japan
The 3rd Global Health Diet Roundtable was held in cooperation with the Japan Alliance on Global NTDs (JAGntd) and SDGs Promise Japan, and focused on the topic of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
Global Health Diet Roundtable | The Looming Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance
December 21, 2018 | Tokyo
Dr. Kazuhiro Tateda of Toho University, who serves as president of both the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases and the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology, briefed eight legislators o…
Roundtable | International Advisory Group on Global Health
September 7, 2018 | Tokyo
On September 7, 2018, the members of the International Advisory Group on Global Health (IAG) gathered in Tokyo, along with Japanese government officials, legislators, experts, and representatives from…
Global Health Diet Roundtable | Evolution of America’s Bipartisan Support for Global Health
September 6, 2018 | Tokyo
JCIE’S inaugural Global Health Diet Roundtable convened six rising leaders in the Japanese Diet who are serving their first, second, or third terms, and it was organized as part of a roundtable series…
Press Tour to Ethiopia
June 26–July 3, 2016 | Ethiopia
On June 26 to July 3, 2016, JCIE organized a press tour that brought a delegation of journalists from Japan to several locations in Ethiopia to examine the country’s development through the lens of th…
Health, Resilience, and the Added Value of the Human Security Approach: Achieving the SDGs
May 2–5, 2016 | New York and Washington DC
As part of the Global Health and Human Security Program, JCIE and the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) have collaborated on a project to analyze case studies of ho…
PUBLICATIONS
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…
Viewing UHC through a Human Security Lens
Marcelo Korc and Susan Hubbard
December 13, 2015
As the international community enters a new era of development with the official launching of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2015’s UHC Day is particularly significant given the emphasis…
Lessons from Japan on Universal Health Coverage
Susan Hubbard, JCIE/USA
December 12, 2015
In this blog article, JCIE’s Susan Hubbard discusses the ways in which Japan rapidly became one of the world’s most advanced nations in the sphere of healthcare and what other countries can take from…
Global Action for Health System Strengthening: Policy Recommendations to the G8
Task Force on Global Action for Health System Strengthening
2009
This report was submitted to the Japanese and Italian governments in January 2009 for consideration for the 2009 G8 Summit agenda.