Civil Society Organizations and Global Health Governance

Introduction to the London Retreat

This two-day invitational workshop brought together approximately 20 young and experienced scholars of global health governance from disciplinary perspectives. The purpose of the workshop was to offer a unique opportunity for scholars to exchange ideas and to build an international, interdisciplinary network of new scholars that will advance research in this field.

The workshop was hosted by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia, in collaboration with the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, and the Centre on Global Change and Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The workshop was a follow-up event to the four-day Wall Summer Institute for Advanced Research (WSIR) 2007 workshop, “Civil Society and Global Health Governance”, held in Vancouver at the Wall Institute in June 2007.