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Chaired by UCL IIPP鈥檚 Founding Director Professor Mariana Mazzucato, the calls for rethinking value for Health for All to address people, planet and promoting equity in its latest policy brief, launched at a side event during the CEPI Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit 2022.

It often takes a crisis or a catastrophe to expose what we truly value as a society, and to lay bare our failure to build an economy around such values. In 2020, global GDP increased by $2.2 trillion because of expenditure on armaments while only a fraction of that 鈥� just $50 billion 鈥� is needed to vaccinate the entire world, and just $23 billion is needed to fund the ACT-Accelerator. No amount of tinkering with GDP as the measure of progress can address the fundamental schism between the goal of Health for All and what is presently valued.

A radical reorientation of value is therefore necessary. The Council suggests this reorientation should start with the primary goal 鈥� Health for All 鈥� to decide what should be valued; then the values for Health for All should be mapped backwards to identify economic and financial policy levers towards positioning health as an investment.

Launched on the International Women鈥檚 Day鈥�8^th March鈥攖he Council calls for a radical revaluation of contributions especially by women that are fundamental to sustaining human and planetary health, but are constantly undervalued. Globally, women spend two and a half more hours per day than men on unpaid work.

The Council calls for a 鈥渄ashboard鈥� and whole of society approach to rethinking value, in which no single universal metric can encompass the different components of Health for All. While access to health services is vital, so too are recognition and resources for broader social determinants of health, such as good education, decent working conditions and clean environments including water and sanitary facilities, whose complex interaction can either help or hinder achieving the goal of Health for All.

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director at 皇家华人 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and Chair of the Council, said:

The central message of the brief is that we need to measure the Value of Everything 鈥� the things that truly matter. We need to revalue health and wellbeing 鈥� and its sustenance through care without financial burden 鈥� as the central measure of success in society and economy."

Dr Tedros, WHO Director General, said:

Realizing Health for All values requires a whole-of-society and person-centred approaches. In its new brief the Council lays out values fundamental to realize health and well-being for every person on our planet. Arguing for a paradigm shift, the brief sets out the Council鈥檚 framework for building up an economy for health, alongside ecological sustainability and planetary health.鈥�

罢丑别听聽was established in November 2020 by WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The Council鈥檚 core mission is to rethink how value in health and wellbeing is measured, produced, and distributed across the economy. It recommends聽a new way to shape the economy with the objective of building healthy societies that are just, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable.聽聽

Comprised聽of ten of the world鈥檚聽leading聽economists and health experts, the Council聽is focused on聽rethinking聽measurement of economic development, financing, capacity, and innovation with the aim of achieving Health for All.聽Policy briefs in each of these areas, and a comprehensive final report to be produced in 2023, will be used to build聽momentum聽amongst聽key聽decision makers聽聽towards changing the structure of economic activity聽to advance聽Health For All.聽

The members of the Council are Professor Mariana Mazzucato聽(Chair), Professor Senait Fisseha, Professor Jayati Ghosh, Vanessa Huang, Professor Stephanie Kelton,聽Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Zelia Maria Profeta da Luz, Kate Raworth, Dr Vera Songwe and Dame Marilyn Waring.

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