Global Health Council
The Global Health Council serves as a place for transpositional deliberation and decision making among diverse actors. It is transpositional, designed to take a ‘view from everywhere.’ As independent and impartial institutions not dominated by financially or politically powerful entities, the GIHM and Global Health Council are two central institutions of SHG that complement each other in implementing the Global Health Constitution.
The Global Health Council interprets and implements the Global Health Constitution. Constitutional interpretation, for example, would assess whether actors are meeting their obligations. To date, the different actors in the global health system have not had well reasoned and clearly articulated duties and obligations. Holding them accountable for unspecified responsibilities is unreasonable and fruitless. Under a Global Health Constitution, obligations would be clear, evading them would no longer be an option, and support and accountability for their effectuation would be a priority.
Since the GIHM will do much of the work in analyzing and formulating policy and the Global Health Constitution delineates responsibility for implementation, with a Global Health Council to oversee global health strategy, global and national organizations—multilateral institutions or non-governmental organizations—will be free from manipulation by powerful states and from distortion by their own bureaucratic interests.