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Collaboration

A leadership presence at the table means little without mutual respect and a consistent, reliable, collaborative presence in one another’s space. Healthcare leadership does require influential action, not just parental correspondence or command. 


As global health improves on leadership and collaboration in an increasingly small world, we can help balance global health work for maximum influence and leadership presence.


*List and detail international health agencies, by charitable organization and governing status. Detail the duplication, reach and leadership. Involve agencies together, through liaisons.


*Evaluate world health organization (WHO) and other agency credibility, respect and influence. Evaluate this by peer organization, interindustry organization and by country. Ask for survey creation and feedback assistance. Respect unbiased response. 


*Dedicate a strategic plan to extend global health into national health and partner agency collaboration. Create action with urgency, require commitment from global organizations and countries and set expectations for global health representation – even if just a listening support. Ask these countries, health ministers and health agencies what they need. Ask interindustry agencies to extend invitations and consider health in their committees or work. Practice active listening and take feedback back to WHO committees. Reduce paternalistic approach. 


*Show up. Be much, much more present and aligned in health and medicine by requiring global health and peers to be much, much more present at individual tables. Work with individual countries, commit to showing up and follow through.  


We can improve global health coordination, trust in medicine and preparation for future international health crises by prioritizing the interpersonal relationship between WHO, global health, individual countries and local communities. It is a privilege to improve interpersonal relationships, and we should be attentive to our good fortune.

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