January 17, 2011 - January 21, 2011
Dakar, Senegal
Aspen Global Health and Development

MLI launched Phase 1 of a long term organizational development and team building training for the reproductive health division (DSR) in the Ministry of Health and Prevention in Senegal. This training was at the request of Dr.

January 11, 2011 - January 22, 2011
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Aspen Global Health and Development

The Balanced Scorecard Institute, with support from MLI, provided balanced scorecard (BSC) certificate training for the National BSC Team of the Ministry of Capacity Building.

December 8, 2010
Washington, DC
Aspen Global Health and Development

With Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at the Karolinksa Institutet in Sweden and Director of Gapminder Foundation.

"The Population Factor and Economic Growth: Myths and Misconceptions"

November 29, 2010 - December 3, 2010
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Aspen Global Health and Development

A distinctive element of MLI's approach to build capacity and foster greater country ownership and leadership is south to south peer learning.

November 2, 2010 - November 4, 2010
Dakar, Senegal
Aspen Global Health and Development

Access to quality health services does not come without a price. In several developing countries, decreasing the financial burden on individuals and families seeking health services continues to be a major challenge. However, in recent years, many African countries have launched ambitious national policies aiming to reduce or eliminate financial barriers to health care.

October 30, 2010 - November 3, 2010
Kathmandu, Nepal
Aspen Global Health and Development

Following on a successful Negotiating Health Development Leadership Training (NHD LT) in August 2010, Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) was eager to further enhance training for additional staff members.

October 25, 2010 - October 28, 2010
Washington, DC
Aspen Global Health and Development

Political will, country ownership, and technical capacity are needed to address gender inequalities in health. Health data collected in many countries are currently gender blind, resulting in data gathered on “households, couples, and children” without analyzing the sex and gender differentiated needs and constraints of women and men or girls and boys.

September 20, 2010
New York, NY
Aspen Global Health and Development

The Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health is composed of a select group of high level leaders who will serve as champions to build political leadership for increased financial and technical support for reproductive health. The Council’s purpose is to revitalize broad recognition of the centrality of reproductive health to development and prosperity.

September 10, 2010
Kathmandu, Nepal
Aspen Global Health and Development

Communicating with the public is an essential skill that is often not emphasized in public health curricula.

July 27, 2010 - July 30, 2010
Sierra Leone
Aspen Global Health and Development

Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights, Rosann Wisman, Director, Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health (MLI), Michelle Bologna, Associate Director, Women Leaders Intercultural Forum (WLIF), Realizing Rights, and Jennifer Magalong, Program Associate, Realizing Rights/MLI, traveled to Sierra Leone from 27-30 July 2010.

May 19, 2010
Geneva, Switzerland
Aspen Global Health and Development

The third annual MLI Reception was co-hosted by the African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST). Honorable Mary Robinson, chair of the MLI Advisory Council and President of Realizing Rights, along with Dr.

May 19, 2010
Washington, DC
Aspen Global Health and Development

Chaired by Hon. Mary Robinson, President of Realizing Rights and former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, this roundtable dialogue features a discussion of the essential role that political leadership plays in realizing the right to health for all.

May 9, 2010 - May 11, 2010
Madrid, Spain
Aspen Global Health and Development

The Health Worker Migration Policy Council met in Madrid two weeks before the 2010 World Health Assembly to review the language of the draft 

March 8, 2010
Washington, DC
Aspen Global Health and Development

MLI hosted a policy dialogue in Washington, D.C. on the WHO report, Women and Health: Today's Evidence Tomorrow's Agenda. Developed with support from MLI, it is the first ever report which focuses on the global status of women’s health from birth to older age and which identifies key areas of reform both within and outside of the health sector.

February 18, 2010
Dakar, Senegal
Aspen Global Health and Development

more effective donor harmonization.

January 21, 2010
Washington, DC
Aspen Global Health and Development
Inaugural lunchtime roundtable discussion of U.S. and U.K. experiences in major health care reform and new visions for global health in the 21st century. Read More
January 21, 2010 - January 23, 2010
Bamako, Mali
Aspen Global Health and Development

As the next step in its mission to extend health insurance coverage to all Malians, the Ministry of Social Development, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, recently held a 3-day workshop to vet and validate the national strategic plan to scale-up of community-based health insurance nation-wide (CBHI, or mutuelles de santé).

December 21, 2009
Washington, DC
Aspen Global Health and Development

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to deliver speech to mark the 15th year of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). Secretary Clinton will announce U.S. Government’s renewed support for and dedication to reaching the ICPD goals and other related UN agreements, including the Millennium Development Goals, by 2015.

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