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A ‘Force for Good’?: Examining UK engagement in Fragile and Conflict Affected Countries
Examining the importance of open societies to the UK’s ‘force for good’ ambitions.
This event will examine how best to strengthen health systems in developing countries and the role the UK can play in supporting such initiatives. The Government’s 2021 Integrated Review identified Global Health as one of its 12 strategic framework areas that will see a new British approach. Under the heading ‘Global Health’ it states that ‘we will work to strengthen global health security, including through the Prime Minister’s five-point plan to bolster ...
More infoPreet Kaur Gill MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.
Dr Dan Poulter MP, Chair of Global Health APPG and member of the International Development Committee.
Dr Neema Kaseje, Founding Director of the Surgical Systems Research Group in Kisamu, Kenya and a visiting surgeon for Kids Operating Room and for Doctors Without Borders.
Further speakers TBA.
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Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Room, Houses of Parliament, London, SW1A 0AA
Summary Vladimir Dubrovskiy is a political economist based in Kyiv (Senior Economist at CASE Ukraine). In his commentary, Vladimir shares his understandably raw and personal views on what lies behind…
At a FPC event this week, we learnt three things about Britain, its constituent territories and the EU.[1] Firstly, that the UK’s engagement in the EU since Brexit does not…
Talks between China and the US in Rome on 14 March 2022 ended inconclusively, dashing any tentative hopes for enlisting China in western efforts to end the war in Ukraine…
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