Towards a coherent global health architecture: perspectives on integrating global health security and universal health coverage through diplomacy and governance reforms.

ABSTRACT: Within the global health landscape exists a complex interplay between global health security (GHS) and universal health coverage (UHC)-two influential agendas with profound influence on health system strengthening initiatives. There is a need to understand why and how coherence between GHS and UHC is being pursued in health policy and planning, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic which profoundly reshaped the field of global health and significant cuts to global health assistance. This paper presents one of the first detailed analyses of contemporary efforts to conceptualize and operationalize GHS-UHC coherence-through the perspectives of key actors responsible for its implementation. The study employed thirty-one interviews with senior officials across four major types of gl

SUBMITTER: Lal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12906769 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature