Promote global solidarity to advance health-system resilience: proposals for the G7 meetings in Japan (Lancet, 4 April 2023)

Summary

The world is facing challenges emerging from multiple crises, including pandemics, wars and climate change. Against this backdrop, the Government of Japan will host the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Hiroshima and the G7 Health Ministers' Meeting in Nagasaki, Japan, in May 2023. This article in The Lancet outlines key recommendations for G7 action to address these challenges through a human security approach and a transformation of global health architecture:

• Enhance resilience to public health emergencies by boosting country-led efforts to achieve universal healthcare
• Advance timely and equitable access to life-saving medical countermeasures as common goods
• Promote a multilayered approach to global health governance, including financing, that facilitates effective collaboration among state and non-state actors beyond the health sector at global and regional levels.