<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Carlito,serif;font-size:medium">Dear comrades and friends,</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Multistakeholderism, a specific form of corporate capture of multilateral institutions, has become increasingly determinant in the formulation of national public policies, with direct effects on access to and quality of health services provided worldwide. Global governance institutions are increasingly seeing this corporate capture which has to be challenged vehemently. </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000">In the struggle for public and universal health services, the People's Working Group on Multistakeholderism (PWGM), the Transnational Institute (TNI) and the Peoples' Health Movement (PHM) invite you to the session</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><b><font color="#000000">Undermining democratic and multilateral responses:</font><span style="color:rgb(43,161,169)"><span> </span></span><font color="#000000">Multistakeholderism in global health governance, on May 20th, at 13h CEST.</font></b></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif">This session is part of the round of public health policy debates that the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) is organizing ahead of the World Health Assembly (22-28 May), as it has significantly restricted the participation of civil society and social movements. It is therefore outside the Assembly that people will gather to debate and organize for collective, popular, public, free and universal health. Following are the details:</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><br></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US"><b><font color="#000000">Undermining democratic and multilateral responses:</font><span style="color:rgb(43,161,169)"><span> </span></span><font color="#000000">Multistakeholderism in global health governance</font></b></span></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"><b>Date:</b> Friday, 20 </font></span><font color="#000000">May 2022</font></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><font color="#000000"><b>Time:</b> 7 pm Manila / 4.30 pm New Delhi / 2 pm Nairobi / 8 am Rio de Janeiro (1 pm CEST)</font></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><br></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><font color="#000000"><span><b>Register here:<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></b></span></font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6LUAYJVBStK2IPRVLmS_xw" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Quicksand,Cantarell,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:15px" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6LUAYJVBStK2IPRVLmS_xw</a><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </b></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><br></p><p style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><b>Speakers:</b></p><p style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><b>Dr. Fifa Rahman</b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">University of Leeds and Civil Society Representative COVID-19 ACT- Accelerator</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span></p><p style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><b>Dr. Lauren Paremoer</b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">University of Cape Town and People's Health Movement </span><br></p><p style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><b>Maduresh <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span>Kumar<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">,</span></b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Transnational Institute</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span></p><p style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><br></p><p style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><b>Moderator:</b></p><p style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><b>Sulakshana Nandi</b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b></b>, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">People’s Health Movement and People's Working Group on Multistakeholderism</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif">In this session we will discuss the chapter on health in the book "The Great Takeover: Mapping of multistakeholderism in Global Governance” with its author, Maduresh Kumar.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"> </p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Kindly join and spread the word!</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US">More information: <a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/may2022/" target="_blank">https://g2h2.org/posts/may2022/</a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif">Jyotsna</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Carlito,serif"><br></p></div></div>
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