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U.S. President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hold hands as they attend the launch of the Global Biofuels Alliance at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, September 9, 2023.

The G20 Summit Showcased India’s Ambitions in a Geopolitical World

by David P. Fidler

The New Delhi declaration positioned global health within a nonaligned development strategy

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo welcomes U.S. President Joe Biden on the second day of the G20 Indonesia Summit events at the Ngurah Rai Forest Park, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on November 16, 2022.

At Bali, the G20 Confronts Multidimensional Crises with Empty Diplomatic Rhetoric

by David P. Fidler

The summit revealed the G20's and global health's vulnerabilities in a geopolitical world

People walk through Terowongan 4444, built from plastic bottles collected from several rivers around the city in three years, constructed by an Indonesian environmental activist group.
Environment

Indonesia: Why Planetary Health Should Be on the Menu for the G20 Chair

by Renzo R. Guinto, Jemilah Mahmood

President Joko Widodo has the opportunity to champion a "planetary health" approach

U.S. President Joe Biden attends the G20 Summit in Rome, Italy, on October 30, 2021.
Governance

The G20 Disappoints on Global Health, but That's OK with the United States 

by David P. Fidler

U.S. foreign policy on global health did not require the G20 Summit to be transformative 

Doctor Tatjana Peric treats a patient suffering from COVID-19 on International Women's Day at the intensive care unit of the Clinical Center of Vojvodina, in Novi Sad, Serbia, March 8, 2021.
Gender

Women in Health Care: A Call for Pandemic Equity

by Roopa Dhatt, Choolwe Jacobs, Becca Reisdorf

At the G20 in Rome, it's time for a gender-responsive approach to COVID-19

George Washington is seen with a printed medical mask on the one-dollar bill near fifty-Euro banknotes in this illustration created during the coronavirus pandemic on March 31, 2020. The photo shows a bunch of paper money, dollars and euros, with a blue surgical-style mask on one of the bills. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
Governance

Coronavirus in Europe: Who If Not Us?

by Ilona Kickbusch, Susan Bergner

Can the EU balance internal recovery with geopolitical influence and lift its gaze towards the international sphere?

A boiler stack at the Sugar Cane Growers cooperative in Belle Glade, Florida on January 6, 2010. The image shows a large smokestack belching out black billows and blocking the cloudy sky.
Governance

COVID-19 Is Smoke and Mirrors—What Matters Is International Law

by Ilona Kickbusch

Health is political, and the best political choice at the moment would be to strengthen WHO's legal power—not destroy it