Gro Harlem Brundtland

Director-General of the World Health Organization

"Globalization As a Force for Better Health"

With globalization, a single microbial sea washes all of humankind. There are no health sanctuaries. The separation between domestic and international health problems is no longer useful.

At the same time, we are beginning to realize the devastating effect ill health has on the economies of developing nations. Therefore, Dr Brundtland argues, focusing on health is an important way of channelling the forces of globalization so that they lead to a more just and equitable global society.

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March 16th 2001

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There must be very few people with experience of global issues to rival that of Gro Harlem Brundtland.

As well as serving for ten years as Prime Minister of Norway, Dr Brundtland also chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development, which in 1987 published its report Our Common Future. More commonly known as The Brundtland Report, it established the broad political concept of sustainable development, and led to the Earth Summit - the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Dr Brundtland has been Director-General of the WHO since July 1998.

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