Today's global health challenges require cooperation and coordination across borders, said Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakidou, calling for strengthening the global health architecture, on her departure from Berlin, where she is attending the G7 Health and Development Ministers meeting.
Ms. Kyriakidou will participate in the Health Ministers' meeting on 19 and 20 May, which will discuss preparedness for future pandemics, the problem of antimicrobial resistance and health risks due to climate change.
Commissioner for International Partnerships, Yuta Urpilainen, will also be in Berlin to represent the EU at the Development Ministers' meeting on the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on global food security. Both Commissioners will participate in a joint meeting of Health and Development Ministers on global health.
In her remarks, Kyriakidou recalled that the pandemic is not over and that therefore "we must continue to build resilience and strengthen the global health architecture".
"We need to deepen our strategic partnerships with our partner countries and secure sustainable financing to better address global health threats," she added.
The Commissioner reiterated that vaccination remains the best global response to the pandemic, and stressed that "today's global health challenges require cooperation and coordination across borders, and the G7 can play a key role."
"This is why we need to launch a strong new global health strategy to connect the dots around the world to improve health systems so that we are ready to respond to global health threats," she concluded.
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