G20 and the global south: opportunities for global health
BMJ 2024; 387 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2536 (Published 18 November 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;387:q2536Read the series: Latin America’s global leadership in health
- Maria de Lourdes Aguiar Oliveira, deputy director of the reference laboratories, ambulatories and biological collections1,
- Natalie Mayet, deputy director2,
- Johanna Hanefeld, director3,
- Anne Meierkord, research scientist in health policy analysis3
- 1Laboratory of Respiratory Viruses and Measles, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Division of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 3Centre for International Health Protection, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
- Correspondence to: J Hanefeld HanefeldJ{at}rki.de
Countries in the Group of 20 (G20) represent two thirds of the world’s population, and it is a major forum for international cooperation. In recent years it has intensified its focus on global health, starting with the creation of a G20 health working group in 2017.
The G20 presidency rotates annually. It is currently held by Brazil, which was preceded by India and Indonesia, and will move to South Africa in 2025. This rotation through countries in the global south is providing opportunities to review the G20 agenda through a southern leadership lens. At the core of this agenda is global health, which cannot be detached from financial, climate, and economic considerations.1 Brazil has made its presidency …
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