John-Arne Røttingen, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Wellcome, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I’ve just attended the One Health Summit in Lyon, France, marking this year’s World Health Day.
The Summit was a powerful illustration of France’s leadership under its G7 Presidency – and of President Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to bringing together key actors to keep global health high on the political agenda at a critical moment.
On the margins of the Summit, I took part in a high‑level roundtable on the future of global health architecture, bringing together voices from across governments, institutions, and regions. Countries have been clear: the system needs clearer roles, stronger regional capability, and governance that genuinely reflects country priorities.
This is a moment for political leadership and ambition – not small tweaks. The risk is not inaction, but fragmented action that falls short of a truly global partnership for reform.
Building on the discussions in Lyon, the French government has set out its perspective on the way forward for global health architecture. As I’m heading to Welcome Trust’s global convening in Bangkok, I’m taking some messages from the day with me:
- Global health will continue to need collective investments across countries for global and regional public goods, like surveillance, research, innovation, product development and regulatory standards. Open science and collaboration will need to be a cornerstone for this.
- Investments for support of individual countries need to be aligned with and alongside domestic investments. National platforms and compacts are needed to ensure such coherence and coordination and to counter fragmentation, complexity and proliferation of many parallel channels and programmes.
- Proper reform will need bold political leadership rooted in common principles and an emerging consensus on direction of change, but we cannot wait for unanimity. Change is already happening and need to be shaped collectively.
I will feed this directly into the discussions in Bangkok, where we are inviting stakeholders from governments, science, civil society, philanthropy, and multilateral institutions to focus on concrete, near‑term steps – and on strengthening alignment and partnership across ongoing reform efforts.”
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