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NEW PUBLICATION: “Solidarity is essential in a more transactional global health era.”We are pleased to share our new pap...
20/08/2026

NEW PUBLICATION: “Solidarity is essential in a more transactional global health era.”

We are pleased to share our new paper, now published in Nature Health.

This paper is the result of a collaborative effort bringing together perspectives from funders, multilateral agencies, research institutions, civil society and other global health actors. It is also the first of several papers emerging from the Convivial Workshop, building on the collective conversations and reflections around what solidarity can and must mean in global health.

At a time of shifting global health priorities, changing funding landscapes and growing pressure to view health partnerships through transactional lenses, the paper makes the case that solidarity is essential to building a fairer, more sustainable global health system.

The paper reflects on what solidarity means in this changing landscape and why we need to move beyond solidarity as rhetoric towards relationships, structures and practices that can withstand political and financial pressures.

It also speaks to a central question for the Global Health Solidarity Project: How can solidarity be embedded meaningfully in the systems, institutions and partnerships that shape global health?

Read the Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00191-1.epdf?sharing_token=19c3_9C1S_7VEaLL6tJPLNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0O2g4i8GdJIgX4a3sG-8fLSrZt8j4mIdHtwaUjU-XmL2StRBsHzqlLFtIL8XZ3gtOQw33Lg3KYIJZ-ckvwtvhQb0dPEmb6mN5ncHuvVpjCxTK8adjTLEdI0jOByM0IPsBY%3D

Wellcome Trust

Gaby Arguedas

NOW AVAILABLE: The second session in the Global Health Solidarity Project’s Regional Feedback Webinar Series.This webin...
18/08/2026

NOW AVAILABLE: The second session in the Global Health Solidarity Project’s Regional Feedback Webinar Series.

This webinar brought together speakers and participants from the project’s earlier Pacific and South Asia regional workshops to reflect on the draft Principles for Embedding Solidarity in the Global Health Ecosystem.

The conversation explored how the principles resonate across different regional and cultural contexts, while also raising important questions about meaningful participation, power, Indigenous and local knowledge systems, accountability, trust, and how solidarity can move from principles into practice.

This session forms part of the project’s commitment to return the principles to the communities and contributors whose insights helped shape them, and to continue refining them together.

In Case You Missed It:

Read the news story: https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/news/pacific-and-south-asia-dialogue-shapes-draft-solidarity-principles-pushes-them-towards

Watch the webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRJyoRdFuE

Learn more about the Global Health Solidarity Project: https://www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/

12/08/2026

How can global health funders put equity and solidarity into practice amid growing questions about who sets global health priorities?

In this reflection from the Global Health Solidarity Project’s 2026 Open Forum, “Rebuilding Global Health on Solidarity Principles,” held in April 2026, Julia Kemp, Associate Director, Equitable Research Ecosystems at Wellcome Trust, shares how Wellcome is approaching these questions through its equity framework, research funding, partnerships, community engagement and wider engagement with the global health system.

She explores what it means to move beyond tokenistic participation towards locally informed priority-setting, meaningful community involvement, equitable research ecosystems and stronger regional leadership.

Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-H4d_Qwx4

What a rich and thoughtful conversation! Our Pacific and South Asia Regional Feedback Webinar brought together participa...
10/08/2026

What a rich and thoughtful conversation!

Our Pacific and South Asia Regional Feedback Webinar brought together participants from the regional workshops to reflect on the draft Principles for Embedding Solidarity in the Global Health Ecosystem.

From questions of power and meaningful participation to relationships, accountability and Indigenous and local knowledge, the discussion offered valuable insights that will help inform the continued refinement of the principles.

Watch this space! A news story capturing highlights from the conversation, together with the webinar video, will be available soon.

Key Takeaways from the Pacific and South Asia Feedback WebinarWhat will it take to move solidarity from principle into p...
06/08/2026

Key Takeaways from the Pacific and South Asia Feedback Webinar

What will it take to move solidarity from principle into practice across the global health ecosystem?

During the Pacific and South Asia Regional Feedback Webinar, participants critically engaged with the draft Principles for Embedding Solidarity in the Global Health Ecosystem, offering thoughtful recommendations that will help inform their continued refinement.

Several key messages emerged, some of which were:

🔸The principles provide a strong and valuable foundation. Speakers welcomed the framework as clear, thoughtful and useful for understanding what solidarity is, how it is enacted and what it should seek to achieve in global health.

🔸Participation must come with meaningful influence. Inclusion is not only about having communities present. People most affected should help set priorities, control resources and data, and shape decisions and outcomes.

🔸Power and accountability must be made visible. Participants called for clearer guidance on what redistributing power looks like in practice and how solidaristic conduct can be recognised, assessed and strengthened.

🔸Indigenous and local knowledge systems should be able to lead. Rather than merely incorporating different forms of knowledge into existing frameworks, solidarity should create space for communities to shape approaches through their own knowledge systems and practices.

🔸We must also recognise what solidarity is not. Participants highlighted the risks of extractive, exclusionary or performative forms of solidarity, including practices that reinforce unequal systems or place unfair burdens on those already marginalised.

We extend our sincere appreciation to Prof. Sundararaman Thiagarajan, Misty Edmonds, Atarangi “Langi” Kepu-Kosene-Apiata, Dr. Krushil Watene and Dr. Anant Bhan for their rich reflections.

We also thank the participants from the Pacific and South Asia regional workshops who returned to the conversation and generously shared their knowledge, experiences and recommendations. Your contributions will support the next stage of refining the principles and developing practical tools for different actors in global health.

A full news story and webinar video will be available soon.

Keep an eye out for the next Regional Feedback Webinar, which will reconnect with participants from the Mesoamerica Workshop and will be held in Spanish.

The Pacific and South Asia Regional Feedback Webinar is happening tomorrow, and it is not too late to register.The Globa...
04/08/2026

The Pacific and South Asia Regional Feedback Webinar is happening tomorrow, and it is not too late to register.

The Global Health Solidarity Project invites colleagues from the Pacific and South Asia to join an interactive discussion on the draft Principles for Embedding Solidarity in the Global Health Ecosystem.

Together, we will reflect on whether the principles capture key regional priorities, concerns and lived understandings of solidarity, as well as what it would take to put them into practice across global health funding, partnerships and decision-making.

Your experience and insights will help us identify what the principles capture well, what may be missing and how they can be strengthened.
We look forward to welcoming you and hearing your perspectives as we work together to strengthen the draft Solidarity Principles.

REGISTER HERE: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/H6TzfcxxR-SPQVusIKn3oQ #/registration

EVENT DETAILS
🗓️: Wednesday, 5 August 2026
⏰: 14:30 AEST | 16:30 NZST/FJT | 10:00 IST
📍: Virtual

03/08/2026

What does solidarity mean in a world where health inequities, aid cuts, conflict, climate injustice and democratic decline are deepening?

During the 2026 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Prof. Madhukar Pai, Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health at the McGill School of Population and Global Health, offered a candid reflection on the growing gap between the language of solidarity and the actions of powerful institutions and governments.

Yet his message is not without hope, as Prof. Pai reminds us that transformative change has often emerged during the darkest periods.

Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHO66ZtOdhY

This conversation continues this week through our upcoming Pacific and South Asia Feedback Webinar, where participants will critically engage with the draft Solidarity Principles and help strengthen their ethical clarity and practical relevance.

Join us!

REGISTER HERE: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/H6TzfcxxR-SPQVusIKn3oQ #/registration

EVENT DETAILS
🗓️: Wednesday, 5 August 2026
⏰: 14:30 AEST | 16:30 NZST/FJT | 10:00 IST
📍: Virtual

What can global health learn from Māori movements, relationality, and kinship? In the second bi-monthly Global Health So...
30/07/2026

What can global health learn from Māori movements, relationality, and kinship?

In the second bi-monthly Global Health Solidarity Webinar, Dr Krushil Watene from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, explored how solidarity has long been embedded in Māori ways of thinking and living, and what global health can learn from these traditions.

Watch her session, “Relationality and Kinship: Māori Movements,” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6XHHf9P30k

As we prepare for the upcoming Pacific and South Asia Regional Feedback Webinar, we are returning to these important regional insights. The webinar will feature voices from the Pacific workshop, and Dr Watene will join us again as we continue refining the draft Principles for Embedding Solidarity in the Global Health Ecosystem.

Join us!

REGISTER HERE: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/H6TzfcxxR-SPQVusIKn3oQ #/registration

EVENT DETAILS
🗓️: Wednesday, 5 August 2026
⏰: 14:30 AEST | 16:30 NZST/FJT | 10:00 IST
📍: Virtual

Solidarity is shaped in conversation, and the next conversation is almost here. The second Regional Feedback Webinar is ...
29/07/2026

Solidarity is shaped in conversation, and the next conversation is almost here.

The second Regional Feedback Webinar is coming up soon, and we warmly invite you to join us as we continue refining the draft Principles for Embedding Solidarity in the Global Health Ecosystem.

This session will focus on Pacific and South Asia, bringing the principles back into conversation with the communities, workshop participants, and contributors whose reflections helped shape them.

Join us for a thoughtful discussion on how the principles resonate across different contexts, what can be strengthened, and what it would mean to put solidarity into practice across global health research, funding, partnerships, policy, and implementation.

REGISTER HERE: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/H6TzfcxxR-SPQVusIKn3oQ #/registration

EVENT DETAILS
🗓️: Wednesday, 5 August 2026
⏰: 14:30 AEST | 16:30 NZST/FJT | 10:00 IST
📍: Virtual

Who holds power in a solidarity partnership, and who gets to shape its purpose?During the Global Health Solidarity Proje...
27/07/2026

Who holds power in a solidarity partnership, and who gets to shape its purpose?

During the Global Health Solidarity Project’s South Asia workshop, Prof. Sharad Raj Onta from Nepal reflected on the multiple dimensions of solidarity in global health.

For Prof. Onta, solidarity requires clarity of purpose and an equal partnership in which all stakeholders have a genuine voice in shaping decisions and advocating for change.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VkS-VT1okU

Insights from the South Asia and Pacific workshops, will help shape discussions during the upcoming Pacific and South Asia Feedback Webinar on the draft Solidarity Principles.

We warmly invite colleagues from the Pacific and South Asia to register, share their perspectives and contribute to refining the principles.

REGISTER HERE: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/H6TzfcxxR-SPQVusIKn3oQ #/registration

EVENT DETAILS
🗓️: Wednesday, 5 August 2026
⏰: 14:30 AEST | 16:30 NZST/FJT | 10:00 IST
📍: Virtual

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