Global Health Solidarity Network

21/05/2026

SECOND TRIAD: Principle 6
Solidarity requires respectful and inclusive engagement.

Solidarity requires more than inviting people into a room.

It requires recognising and valuing distinct contexts, knowledge systems, experiences, strengths, constraints, and forms of agency. It means creating accessible spaces where people can shape priorities, influence outcomes, and participate meaningfully in shared decision-making.

In global health, inclusion must not be symbolic. It must be respectful, substantive, and attentive to power. Solidarity listens. Solidarity learns. Solidarity does not override local knowledge or impose disproportionate control.

Watch the explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9A74hVe6Q

For ease of reference, you can find the Solidarity Principles from page 15 of the Convivial Solidarity Workshop Report here:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Convivial%20Solidarity%20Workshop_Report_02.2026_v.4.pdf

20/05/2026

SECOND TRIAD: Principle 5
Solidarity is built on and maintained by trust.

Trust is not automatic. It is built, tested, strengthened, and sometimes broken through repeated actions over time.

In global health, solidarity depends on the confidence that actors can rely on one another across unequal positions, while recognising that responsibilities differ according to role, capacity, context, and time.

This means trust cannot be reduced to goodwill. It must be sustained through transparency, accountability, consistency, and the willingness to do one’s part.

Solidarity grows where trust is actively maintained.

As we continue exploring the 3-3-3 framework, we invite you to reflect with us on what it takes to build and maintain trust across unequal positions in global health.

Watch the explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9A74hVe6Q

For ease of reference, you can find the Solidarity Principles from page 15 of the Convivial Solidarity Workshop Report here:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Convivial%20Solidarity%20Workshop_Report_02.2026_v.4.pdf

18/05/2026

SECOND TRIAD: Principle 1
Solidarity entails commitment to mutuality.

Solidarity is not a transaction between givers and receivers.

It is a commitment to act together toward common health goals, while recognising the diversity of roles, contexts, capacities, and contributions across the global health ecosystem. Mutuality does not require agreement on everything. In fact, solidarity must be able to hold disagreement, difference, and complexity without abandoning the shared goal.

This principle challenges charitable models of global health and invites us to build relationships where all actors have agency, voice, and value.

Solidarity is not about doing for others. It is about acting together.

We will continue unpacking what the draft solidarity principles ask of global health, including how mutuality can reshape the way actors relate, decide, and act together.

Please share your reflections around what genuine mutuality would look like in global health funding, research, partnerships, or implementation.

Watch the explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9A74hVe6Q

For ease of reference, you can find the Solidarity Principles from page 15 of the Convivial Solidarity Workshop Report here:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Convivial%20Solidarity%20Workshop_Report_02.2026_v.4.pdf

14/05/2026

FIRST TRIAD: Principle 3
Solidarity is a specific type of relationship

Solidarity is not a temporary alliance. It is a relationship. It is built through willingness and availability to support others materially, emotionally, morally, politically, and practically. These relationships may grow from existing networks, but they can also create new forms of connection around shared responsiveness.

In the global health funding ecosystem, this principle challenges actors to think beyond one-off engagements and towards sustained relationships of mutual reliance and responsibility. Solidarity asks us to build relationships that can hold commitment over time.

Over the next few weeks, we will be taking a closer look at the 3-3-3 framework and inviting reflection on how solidarity can be embedded in the relationships that shape global health.

Please engage with the post, share your reflections, and join the conversation: What kinds of relationships are needed for solidarity to become more than a temporary response?

Watch the explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9A74hVe6Q

For ease of reference, you can find the Solidarity Principles from page 15 of the Convivial Solidarity Workshop Report here:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Convivial%20Solidarity%20Workshop_Report_02.2026_v.4.pdf

13/05/2026

FIRST TRIAD: Principle 2
Solidarity is a form of “identifying with.”

Solidarity begins with recognising meaningful connection.

It is not about assuming that everyone’s experiences are the same. Rather, it is about identifying with one another through shared commitments, interdependence, and a common desire to close health gaps.

In global health, this means acknowledging difference without erasing power, vulnerability, context, or position. It means allowing empathy to guide action, while remaining attentive to the unequal conditions that shape people’s lives and health outcomes.

Solidarity invites us to ask:
What connects us, and how should that connection shape what we do?

Over the next few weeks, we will be unpacking what the draft Solidarity Principles are, what they ask of global health, and the ends they are meant to serve.

As we reflect on solidarity as “identifying with”, we invite you to share your thoughts on what kinds of connection, interdependence, or shared responsibility should shape global health.

Watch the explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9A74hVe6Q

For ease of reference, you can find the Solidarity Principles from page 15 of the Convivial Solidarity Workshop Report here:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Convivial%20Solidarity%20Workshop_Report_02.2026_v.4.pdf

12/05/2026

FIRST TRIAD: Principle 1

Solidarity is action that entails standing with and for others.

In global health, solidarity must be expressed through concrete actions, institutional practices, and structural arrangements that advance common health goals. It requires commitments that carry real cost, whether financial, political, emotional, or practical.

To stand in solidarity is to stand with and for others as a commitment to shared health, dignity, and justice.

As the global health ecosystem faces deepening inequities, this principle reminds us that solidarity must move beyond rhetoric into practice.
Solidarity is enacted, not merely proclaimed.

Over the next few weeks, we will be taking a closer look at the 3-3-3 Framework of the draft Solidarity Principles, beginning with what defines what Solidarity is.

Please share your reflections, ask questions, and join the conversation. Your responses will help inform how these principles are understood, challenged, and taken forward.

Watch the explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9A74hVe6Q

For ease of reference, you can find the Solidarity Principles from page 15 of the Convivial Solidarity Workshop Report here:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Convivial%20Solidarity%20Workshop_Report_02.2026_v.4.pdf

06/05/2026

What do the draft Solidarity Principles actually stand for?

Our latest video introduces the 3–3–3 framework behind the draft Solidarity Principles and explores what it could mean to move solidarity in global health from rhetoric to real practice across funding, research, partnerships, and implementation.

Over the next few weeks, we will be taking a closer look at this framework, unpacking what these principles are, what they ask of global health, and the ends they are meant to serve.

We will be sharing each part of the framework and opening up space to reflect on what these principles stand for in practice.

As we do, please feel free to engage with the posts, share your reflections, ask questions, and join the conversation. Your responses will help us think more deeply about how these principles are understood, challenged, and taken forward.

Watch the latest video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysvUKyJbCtw

For ease of reference, you can find the Solidarity Principles from page 15 of the Convivial Solidarity Workshop Report here:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Convivial%20Solidarity%20Workshop_Report_02.2026_v.4.pdf

06/05/2026

What do the draft Solidarity Principles actually stand for?

In our latest video, Prof. Caesar Atuire introduces the 3–3–3 framework behind the draft Solidarity Principles and explores what it could mean to move solidarity in global health from rhetoric to real practice across funding, research, partnerships, and implementation.

Over the next few weeks, we will be taking a closer look at this framework, unpacking what these principles are, what they ask of global health, and the ends they are meant to serve.

As we do, please feel free to engage with the posts, share your reflections, ask questions, and join the conversation. Your responses will help inform how these principles are understood, challenged, and taken forward.

Watch the latest video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9A74hVe6Q

For ease of reference, you can find the Solidarity Principles from page 15 of the Convivial Solidarity Workshop Report here:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Convivial%20Solidarity%20Workshop_Report_02.2026_v.4.pdf

04/05/2026

Our Open Forum webinar is now available to watch, and in reflecting on the draft Solidarity Principles, our speakers truly left us with a great deal to think about on solidarity, power, and equity to what it will take to rebuild global health differently.

If you missed it, or would like to revisit the conversation, we encourage you to watch the full recording here:�https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZoGqP-MyPQ

For ease of reference, you can find the Solidarity Principles from page 15 of the Convivial Solidarity Workshop Report here:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Convivial%20Solidarity%20Workshop_Report_02.2026_v.4.pdf

30/04/2026

QUICK READ: What does solidarity actually demand of global health when the system itself is under strain?

Our latest news story revisits the 2026 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, where speakers reflected honestly and thoughtfully on the realities facing global health today, and what it might mean to move solidarity beyond rhetoric.

Read the news story:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/news/open-forum-recap-solidarity-word-everyone-uses-few-practise

Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/27/2026 - 15:22 What does solidarity actually demand of global health when the system itself is under strain? This question gave the Global Health Solidarity Project’s 2026 Open Forum its urgency, its edge, and its relevance. Held under the theme “Rebuilding Glo.....

29/04/2026

Missed the first Global Health Solidarity Open Forum of 2026 or want to revisit the conversation?

The recording is now available to watch.

Featuring reflections from Michelle Childs (Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)), Prof. Madhukar Pai (McGill University), Julia Kemp (Wellcome Trust), and Dr Benjamin Djoudalbaye (Africa CDC), the Open Forum introduced the draft Solidarity Principles and explored what it would mean to embed them more meaningfully across global health funding, research, policy, partnerships, and practice.

Watch the full Open Forum here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZoGqP-MyPQ

Please also keep an eye out for our Feedback Webinars, beginning on 17 June 2026, as we continue refining the draft Solidarity Principles towards implementation.

You can find the Solidarity Principles on page 15 of the Convivial Solidarity Workshop Report here:
https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Convivial%20Solidarity%20Workshop_Report_02.2026_v.4.pdf