Headquarters activities
Karin Gross, SDC HQ Bern
Last year, the SDC Health Network organized a Global F2F
Meeting Health from 6 - 9 November 2017 in Versoix/Geneva. Three years
after its last global gathering in 2014. More than 70 people from SDC
cooperation offices and HQ, other federal offices, NGOs and experts
participated. The global gathering aimed at contributing to make SDC’s
health engagement fit for the ambitions of the Agenda 2030 but also for
current regional epidemiological trends, transformations of national
health systems, global health challenges, as well as current global and
national health policy debates. The global F2F meeting provided an
excellent opportunity to share experience and generate ideas to adapt
SDC’s bilateral and global health engagement to these trends, and to
explore potential and existing Swiss comparative advantages in health.
Moreover, the meeting aimed at enhancing the leverage of national and
regional evidence at global policy level – and vice versa - by
establishing a synergistic, mutually beneficial link between bilateral
and global initiatives.
A visit at WHO as part of the global gathering allowed for
an exchange with experts from various international organizations based
in Geneva on health system strengthening for UHC, on sexual and
reproductive health and rights and on non-communicable diseases.
The F2F Meeting provided an excellent opportunity to
exchange, discuss and to strategically reflect on all these issues. The
reporting containing all presentations, video messages from the key
speakers and participants, a summary report and some visual impressions
on our Global F2F Health is available on the homepage
www.globalf2fhealth.ch and also on our
SDC Health Shareweb.
