[Correspondence] Germany's expanding role in global health

In their Series paper on Germany's expanding role in global health (July 3, 2017, p 898),1 Ilona Kickbusch and colleagues draw attention to the country's fragmented public health infrastructure. The authors call for an enabling network or platform to build synergies between the major German institutions —eg, through a global health institute or think tank. Although this approach is consistent with an analysis of Germany's scientific academies,2 the success of a specialised global health institute with an international programme would ultimately also depend on a domestic public health knowledge ba se of high competency and sufficient capacity.

Source: LANCET - February 16, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Manfred Wildner, Lothar H Wieler, Hajo Zeeb, standing committee of the Future Forum Public Health Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research