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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>"Good governance starts at home"<br>(favourite quote of many WHO delegates)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>......................<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>I refer to a notice posted on IP-health: The US Health and Human Services Department invites for a “Stakeholder listening session in preparation for the 65th World Health Assembly”: “The Stakeholder Listening Session will help the HHS's Office of Global Affairs prepare for the World Health Assembly by taking full advantage of the knowledge, ideas, feedback, and suggestions from all communities interested in and affected by agenda items to be discussed at the 65th World Health Assembly. Your input will contribute to US positions as we negotiate these important health topics with our international colleagues.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/02/2012-7738/stakeholder-listening-session-in-preparation-for-the-65th-world-health-assembly">https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/02/2012-7738/stakeholder-listening-session-in-preparation-for-the-65th-world-health-assembly</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>This is remarkable. I wonder in which countries this kind of pre-WHA stakeholder dialogue is organized in a similar way. In the UK, I suppose - but I do not know the details. Where else? If there are enough examples, I will publish a collection of "best practices" before this year's World Health Assembly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Thomas Schwarz, Executive Secretary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Medicus Mundi International Network<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR-CH>Murbacherstrasse 34, CH-4013 Basel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR-CH>Phone +41 (61) 383 18 11 (MON-WED)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR-CH>schwarz@medicusmundi.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR-CH>www.medicusmundi.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR-CH><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><i><span lang=EN-GB>Sharing knowhow and joining <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText><i><span lang=EN-GB>forces towards Health for All</span></i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>