Developing Countries: Health Services

(asked on 23rd October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) strengthen his Department’s expertise on global health and (b) help ensure effective coordination with other development partners globally.


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Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 2nd November 2020

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has excellent global health expertise. Health advisers, who are accredited public health professionals, are central to delivering the FCDO's work on global health and undergo continuing professional development to strengthen their expertise. Health advisers work closely with staff across FCDO and share learning with other sector specialists (such as education and humanitarian advisers); as well as engaging with external experts to strengthen the Department's expertise.

FCDO uses its full range of health, development and diplomatic expertise to support better coordination on global health with our development partners bilaterally, and at a global level through the WHO and the wider UN system.

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