Improving global and regional health governance and cooperation: perspective of South and Southeast Asia

This document serves as a briefing paper, produced by the Centre for Social and Economic Progress
(CSEP) and the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) under the umbrella of The Asian Collective for Health Systems (TACHS). It collates a broad spectrum of data and information, based mostly on a non-systematic desk review of academic and grey literature, to feed into discussions about how countries in South and Southeast Asia can contribute to and improve the system of global health governance; ensure that South and Southeast Asian needs and perspectives are better accommodated within the system of global health governance; reduce their reliance on external funding and expertise; enable more effective pooling of resources and expertise at the regional level; promote greater intra-regional health equity; and contribute to more effective regional governance and cooperation in South and Southeast Asia.