Global Health Governance in an Uncertain World: A Proposed Framework for the G20

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and other health crises, the focus on public health in foreign policy around the world appears to have shifted from ‘low politics’ (humanitarian endeavour) to ‘high politics’ (national and international security concerns). [1] This shift is accompanied by the emerging need to understand the social, economic, commercial, security, and political determinants of health. These developments have necessitated that ‘health’ be considered as a multisectoral global concern and not just limited to individual countries.