Diplomacy Program
Laura-Lee Boodram, Shane Kirton and Lisa Indar: A Public Health Perspective on Climate Change and Small Island Developing States: The Caribbean Region, full-length version prepared for publication in Financing a Just Transition: Transforming Funding, Tackling Climate Change, edited by John Kirton and Ella Kokotsis, November 2024
This year's publications are available! Health: A Political Choice – Building Resilience and Trust, just published, and also, published in April, Health: A Political Choice – Advancing Indigenous People's Rights and Well-being
Health: A Political Choice – From Fragmentation to Integration, edited by Ilona Kickbusch and John Kirton, with bonus content
Health: A Political Choice – Investing in Health For All, edited by Ilona Kickbusch and John Kirton, 2022 (contents here)
Health: A Political Choice – Solidarity, Science, Solutions, edited by Ilona Kickbusch and John Kirton, 2021 (contents here)
Building Brain Health at the G20 Health Ministers Meeting, Vladimir Hachinski, Antonio Federico and John Kirton, September 4, 2021
Lauren Millar: "G7 Global Fund Commitments, Compliance and Financial Contributions, 2001–2021, April 16, 2021
Lauren Millar, "Can International Law Improve Compliance with G7 and G20 Health Commitments?, July 21, 2020
Health: A Political Choice – Act Now, Together, edited by Ilona Kickbusch and John Kirton, 2020 (contents here)
Video: Ilona Kickbusch, James Orbinski and Peter Singer, with Danielle Bochove, on "Does COVID-19 Make the Case for the WHO," from the Empire Club of Canada, April 24, 2020
Health Is a Political Choice, a publication coedited by John Kirton and Ilona Kickbusch, with the support of the World Health Organization (contents here)
Watch Madeline Koch on preparing compliance reports, at the House of Commons in London, July 18, 2018
Watch John Kirton on demonstrating good governance, at the House of Commons in London, July 18, 2018
Kirton, John J., Andy Knight and C. James Hospedales. "Implementing Global Summit Commitments on Health.", April 2, 2018
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List of Commitments
Commitments containing specified institutions or mandates
1: [We declare] Our full support for the initiatives and mechanisms aimed at strengthening regional health institutions, to provide critical leadership required for implementing our agreed strategies for the reduction of the burden of Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases as a central priority of the Caribbean Cooperation in Health Initiative Phase III (CCH III), being coordinated by the CARICOM Secretariat, with able support from the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) and other relevant partners [Compliance report]
14: [We declare] Our endorsement of the efforts of the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI), Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) and the regional inter-governmental agencies to enhance food security. [Compliance report]
15: [We declare] our strong support for the elimination of trans-fats from the diet of our citizens, using the CFNI as a focal point for providing guidance and public education designed toward this end [Compliance report]
16: [We declare] Our support for the efforts of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) to pursue fair trade policies in all international trade negotiations thereby promoting greater use of indigenous agricultural products and foods by our populations and reducing the negative effects of globalisation on our food supply [Compliance report]
25: [We declare] That we will establish, as a matter of urgency, the programmes necessary for research and surveillance of the risk factors for NCDs with the support of our Universities and the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre/Pan American Health Organisation (CAREC/PAHO)
26: [We declare] Our continuing support for CARICOM and PAHO as the joint Secretariat for the Caribbean Cooperation in Health (CCH) Initiative to be the entity responsible for revision of the regional plan for the prevention and control of NCDs, and the monitoring and evaluation of this Declaration.
Commitments with only specified international instruments
2: [We declare] Our commitment to pursue immediately a legislative agenda for passage of the legal provisions related to the International Framework Convention on Tobacco Control [Compliance report]
Commitments without specified institutions, mandates or instruments
3: [We] support the immediate enactment of legislation to limit or eliminate smoking in public places [Compliance report]
4: [We support the immediate enactment of legislation to] ban the sale [of tobacco products to children] [Compliance report]
5: [We support the immediate enactment of legislation to] ban the advertising [of tobacco products to children] [Compliance report]
6: [We support the immediate enactment of legislation to] ban the promotion [of tobacco products to children] [Compliance report]
7: [We] insist on effective warning labels [for tobacco] [Compliance report]
8: [We will] introduce such fiscal measures as will reduce accessibility of tobacco [Compliance report]
9: [We declare] That public revenue derived from tobacco, alcohol or other such products should be employed, inter alia for preventing chronic NCDs, promoting health and supporting the work of the Commissions [Compliance report]
10: [We declare] That our Ministries of Health, in collaboration with other sectors, will establish by mid-2008 comprehensive plans for the screening and management of chronic diseases and risk factors so that by 2012, 80% of people with NCDs would receive quality care and have access to preventive education based on regional guidelines [Compliance report]
11: [We declare] That we will mandate the re-introduction of physical education in our schools where necessary [Compliance report]
12: [We declare that we will] provide incentives and resources to effect [the re-introduction of physical education in our schools]
13: [We will] ensure that our education sectors promote programmes aimed at providing healthy school meals and promoting healthy eating [Compliance report]
17: [We declare] Our support for mandating the labeling of foods or such measures as are necessary to indicate their nutritional content through the establishment of the appropriate regional capability
18: [We declare] That we will promote policies and actions aimed at increasing physical activity in the entire population, e.g. at work sites, through sport, especially mass activities, as vehicles for improving the health of the population and conflict resolution
19: In this context we commit to increasing adequate public facilities such as parks and other recreational spaces to encourage physical activity by the widest cross-section of our citizens
20: [We declare] Our commitment to take account of the gender dimension in all our programmes aimed at the prevention and control of NCDs
21: [We declare] That we will provide incentives for comprehensive public education programmes in support of wellness
22: [We declare that we will provide incentives for comprehensive public education programmes in support of] healthy life-style changes
23: [We declare that we will provide incentives for comprehensive public education programmes in support of] improved self-management of NCDs
24: [We will] embrace the role of the media as a responsible partner in all our efforts to prevent and control NCDs
27: We hereby declare the second Saturday in September "Caribbean Wellness Day"
