How European countries fund global health: unpacking decision-making and priority-setting processes
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: How European countries fund global health: Unpacking decision-making and priority-setting processes 7European countries have been playing an important role in funding global health organisations and initiatives.Notable financial contributions from European governments include support from the United Kingdom (UK), France, and Germany, Europe's top funders of development assistance for health (DAH) from 1990 to 2018. 1 These countries account for large portions of funding to agencies such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi). 2 These funding streams are supported and reinforced by the institutions of the European Union (EU) who have been contributing to DAH through, amongst others, the Global Fund, Gavi, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) and the Global Financing Facility (GFF).3 The Covid-19 pandemic has witnessed European countries and EU institutions taking a more central role in global health, including but not limited to their role in financing development assistance and WHO.The European Commission (EC) organized the first major international pledging conferences for the Covid-19 response in May and June 2020, during which the EC, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and EU Member States pledged a total of 11.9 billion EUR (approx.14 billion USD). 4 Individual European countries -such as the UK, 5 Germany, 6 Ireland 7 and Finland 8 -stepped up their funding to the WHO after the US announced its withdrawal in May 2020. 1 IHME: Financing Global Health|Viz Hub, "Flows of Global Health Financing," 2020
Authors: Kurihara, Fumi, Moon, Suerie
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: European Commission
OpenAlex ID: W6977713718
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