Press Release: Health security: Building stronger global collaboration

Health ministers from G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US), Mexico and the World Health Organisation attended the 9th ministerial meeting of the Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI) hosted by the Commission in Brussels. The aim of the GHSI is to forge stronger global collaboration on health security by addressing health threats from chemical, biological and radio/nuclear agents and by developing preparedness and response on pandemic influenza. A communiqué setting out the achievements of the GHSI to date and defining future areas of joint work to promote collective health security was agreed at the end of the meeting.

European Commission: MEMO/08/769: Communiqué: 9th Ministerial Meeting of the Global Health Security Initiative http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/08/769&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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