<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Eric Friedman</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Eric.Friedman@law.georgetown.edu">Eric.Friedman@law.georgetown.edu</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Did you know that during the MDG era, the gap in the level of stunting -- a key measure of whether a child is receiving adequate nutrition -- between children in the wealthiest and poorest households actually <i>increased</i> in more than one-third of more than 50 countries surveyed (<a href="http://data.unicef.org/resources/progress-children-report/" target="_blank">http://data.unicef.org/resour<wbr>ces/progress-children-report/</a>)<wbr>? Health inequality grew. Now, the Sustainable Development Goals promise to Leave No One Behind. But will the world keep its promise?</div><div><br></div><div>The O'Neill Institute, in partnership with the Stop TB Partnership, USAID, and others, has been strategizing around a comprehensive response to persisting health inequities: developing <span style="font-size:12.8px">National Health Equity Strategies. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">We hope that governments and other partners, from local civil society organizations to international organizations, will adopt this approach to help achieve the core promise of the SDGs.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">We invite you to be part of this effort. We are holding an online consultation, which has just begun, on this approach and on a draft of a guide that we have developed to assist countries interested in health equity strategies. We look forward to extensive feedback and engagement in this process to ensure that the guide is a valuable resource and to help build interest in and momentum towards comprehensively addressing health equity.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">To contribute to the consultation, which has just begun and will last approximately two months -- you can response to a survey, providing feedback on the guide itself, or participating in one of several webinars. To learn more and to participate, please join us: <a href="http://www.law.georgetown.edu/oneillinstitute/research/national-health-equity-strategy.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.law.georgetown.edu/<wbr>oneillinstitute/research/natio<wbr>nal-health-equity-strategy.cfm</a></span></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">A little more information on National Health Equity Strategies is below and this recent piece: <a href="https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-countries-need-to-build-national-health-equity-strategies-here-s-how-92496" target="_blank">https://www.devex.com/news/opi<wbr>nion-countries-need-to-build-<wbr>national-health-equity-strateg<wbr>ies-here-s-how-92496</a>. You can also read more at the above consultation website.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We look forward to hearing from and working with you during our consultation -- and even beyond. <a href="http://www.law.georgetown.edu/oneillinstitute/research/national-health-equity-strategy.cfm" target="_blank">Join us</a>. Please email me with any questions (<a href="mailto:eaf74@law.georgetown.edu" target="_blank">eaf74@law.georgetown.edu</a>).</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><br><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">National Health Equity Strategies would cut across health issues and not be limited to any single disease. They would<span style="font-size:small"> encompass all populations experiencing health inequities, analyze the causes of these inequities – causes both within and beyond the health sector – and include action plans, with time-bound targets, in response to them.</span><span style="font-size:small"> </span>Participation and leadership of members of marginalized populations in developing these strategies would be central, as would robust accountability. These strategies and their action plans would be integrated throughout the plans and strategies of health and other sectors. </div><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><font style="font-size:12.8px" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#444444">Eric A. Friedman, JD</font><span style="font-family:constantia,serif"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#444444">O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law</font></span><br><span style="font-family:constantia,serif"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:constantia,serif"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#444444">Georgetown University Law Center</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444">Washington, DC USA</font></p><span style="color:black;font-family:constantia,serif"><font face="Arial"><a href="https://www.fcghalliance.org/" target="_blank">https://www.fcghalliance.org</a></font></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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