POLICY BRIEF Rebuilding Trust in Global Health Governance - An Opportunity for Germany

20 | September 2024 Rebuilding Trust in Global Health Governance POLICY BRIEF Recent health crises such as the Ebola outbreak of THE ISSUE OF TRUST 2013 and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 have wors- ened the lack of trust that is crippling the global Trust is essential to stakeholder dynamics. [...] In the global health governance context, trust therefore re- When Ebola broke out in 2013, global health institu- lates to the confidence in the partner to pursue and tions reacted far too slowly. [...] A Fragmented Global Health Architecture WHO Inefficiencies The cause of much of the trust problem lies in the The WHO, positioned as the central coordinator in fragmentation of the global health governance archi- global health governance, struggles to assert its role tecture. [...] This reduces the need to accept conditions imposed by the Global North and visibility in global leads to diverging priorities and strategic interests among stakeholders that complicate the development health governance of cohesive global health policies. [...] Do More to Bring in the Global South To bridge the growing divide between the Glob- al South and Global North, Germany should actively continue and expand its efforts to associate Global South nations to key forums like the G7.