Ilona Kickbusch

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Ilona Kickbusch (born August 27, 1948 in Munich ) is recognized worldwide for her contribution to health promotion and global health. Since 2008 she has headed the Global Health Program (Program de santé mondiale ) at the University Institute for International Studies and Development ( Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement , IHEID) in Geneva .

education

Ilona Kickbusch grew up in Munich and later in Chennai , an Indian state, where her father worked as a diplomat. She graduated from the University of Konstanz and received her PhD in Political Science in 1981 . During her postgraduate studies she was supported by a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

career

Kickbusch contributed to the earliest academic studies on consumer-centered health care, women's health, and self-help movements. After joining the World Health Organization in 1981 , she was selected to lead the global health promotion program and until 1998 held several high-level regional, national and international positions within WHO. She led the design of the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion (1986), a foundational document in the field of public health, and the World Conference on Health Promotion that followed the Ottawa Charter. She also initiated the first WHO comparative study on women's health in Europe, Women's Health Counts .

Between 1998 and 2004 she directed the newly established Global Health Program at the Yale School of Public Health at Yale University . After her return to Europe in 2005 she was appointed President of the World Demographic & Aging Forum in St. Gallen , in 2008 Director of the global health program at IHEID, and in 2009 President of Global Health Europe .

In 1999, Kickbusch was the federal government's candidate for the position of Regional Director of WHO Europe; the position went to Marc Danzon instead.

She then worked on the management of the Careum Foundation in Zurich, since 2008 as a member of the board of trustees. She regularly teaches at several universities, including the University of St. Gallen (HSG).

In 2017, Kickbusch and David L. Heymann from Chatham House ran a health crisis simulation at the meeting of G20 health ministers in Berlin. In 2018, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom appointed her to the Independent High-level Commission on non-communicable diseases (NDCs), which was co-chaired by President Tabaré Vázquez of Uruguay, President Maithripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka, President Sauli Niinistö of Finland, Weronika Skvorzova , Minister of Health of the Russian Federation; and Sania Nishtar, former Federal Minister of Pakistan. She has also been a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) of the World Bank and the WHO since 2018, under the joint chairmanship of Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General of the IFRC and Gro Harlem Brundtland .

Research and Health Policy

Ilona Kickbusch works as a consultant in various areas, both in the private sector and with organizations and government agencies. As a member of numerous advisory boards at national, European and international level, she is active in the field of health policy and strategies. She has published extensively in these areas and has received numerous awards for her contributions over the course of her career. As a leader in the field of public health, she relies on global responsibility, performance and the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach. It is seen as a driver of some important public health developments.

Health Promotion - Health Society

Ilona Kickbusch made a career in the World Health Organization, both regionally, nationally and internationally. She also participated in drafting the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World in 2005 and was a member of the 2011 Advisory Group to the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health.

She founded the magazine "Health Promotion International" at Oxford University Press , where she is editor-in-chief to this day.

She participates in the development of implementation strategies (for example by helping to shape the Swiss law on health promotion and disease prevention) and in developing the theoretical basis for health promotion. In this area, Ilona Kickbusch developed the concept of the "health society" and examined the connections between health and the modern world as well as innovative approaches to health management on a national and international level. She was the lead author of white papers on "The challenges of addiction (The challenges of addiction) and" The food system: a prism of present and future challenges for health promotion and sustainable development (The Food System: A prism of present and future challenges for health promotion and sustainable development). She wrote a glossary on "Learning for well-being".

Health in All Policies - Governance for Health - Health Innovations

At the invitation of the Prime Minister of South Australia, she was named "Thinker in Residence" in Adelaide in 2007 for the section "Healthy Societies". During her stay, she developed a Health Lens approach to the concept of Health in All Policies , which was then implemented in South Australia. She has published numerous books and advised on Health in All Policies and is one of the world's leaders in this field. She continues to be involved in many practical projects related to Health in All Policies .

She carried out a study on Governance for Health for the WHO European Regional Office, one of the key studies on which the new European health policy is based: Health 2020. She participated in the planning of the 2013 Global Conference on Health Promotion, the main theme of which was Health in All Policies and which also explored the social determinants of health.

The setting approach - demography and gender

Ilona Kickbusch developed the setting approach in health promotion and programs such as healthy cities, health promoting schools and hospitals, healthy workplaces and health in prisons. Many of these networks are now international and appear to be a sustainable approach to public health action. She also initiated the Study on the Behavior of School-Age Children and Their Relationship to Health: the Study on the Health Behavior of School-Age Children, which has since been recognized as a benchmark for measuring the health of children and adolescents.

At WHO headquarters she founded the program for healthy aging and continues to be active in this area as chair of the multidisciplinary World Demographic & Aging Forum in St. Gallen.

In addition, she has helped empower women in health and initiated the first WHO comparative study on women's health in Europe: Women's Health Counts .

Health literacy / health literacy

Ilona Kickbusch is a pioneer in developing the concept of health literacy and strengthening it through research and programs. At the initiative of the EU, the first European survey on health literacy was created in 2011 and the results presented (the second from 2019 will be presented in 2020). She is strongly committed to public participation in the healthcare sector and has contributed to the creation of the new European Network on Patient Empowerment (ENOPE). The alliances for health literacy in Switzerland and South Australia were also created on the basis of their proposals. She wrote a handbook on health literacy in German and a lead publication for the WHO.

“The 'Alliance for Health Competence', launched in June 2017 by the Federal Minister of Health Hermann Gröhe, has committed itself to a joint declaration to develop and implement measures to improve health knowledge. The most important fields of action are the improvement of health education, good health information and decision-making aids, especially on the Internet, as well as more comprehensibility in doctor-patient discussions, but also in all other health professions. ”On the“ National Action Plan Health Competence ”, a scientific guide to strengthen Health literacy in Germany, which was presented on February 19, 2018, was part of the expert advisory board by Ilona Kickbusch.

Global Health Governance

During her years at Yale University, she led the Global Health Department, one of the first programs of its kind. She was instrumental in shaping the global health field and, in particular, in analyzing its governance. She was also the director of a Fulbright program called Health in a Borderless World . (Health in a Boundless World). Ilona Kickbusch is considered one of the thought leaders in this area, as she made a significant contribution to global health administration at the WHO and in projects such as the creation of a C-Committee at the World Health Assembly .

She has also contributed to the global health policy of the European Union as well as to the innovative Swiss health policy. She also formed the Global Health Europe think tank with the aim of strengthening Europe's place in global health.

Diplomacy in Global Health

Ilona Kickbusch is a pioneer in global health diplomacy and, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, has developed an approach to executive education. The training for innovative courses takes place regularly in Geneva and was also carried out in cooperation with local partners in China, Indonesia, Kenya, the USA and Canada. She has written numerous publications on the subject, including a textbook and the broader subject of global health and foreign policy. She is a member of numerous networks, including the Global Health Diplomacy Network (GHD-NET).

She is currently the editor of Tom Novotny's Global Health Diplomacy book series, published by World Scientific .

further activities

Government organizations

Non-profit organizations

  • UHC2030, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee (since 2018)
  • German Health Partnership (GHP), Member of the Advisory Board (since 2017)
  • Guttmacher - Lancet , Member of the Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Post-2015 World (since 2016)
  • International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP), Member of the Scientific Council (since 2015)
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , member of the Public Health working group (2015)
  • Center Virchow-Villermé, member of the International Advisory Board
  • German network of health promoting hospitals and health facilities, member of the advisory board
  • World Health Summit , Council Chair
  • Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence (HLCA) Consortium, member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Women in Global Health, member
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), member
  • German Society for Sociology (DSG), member

honors and awards

  • CYWHS Oration, Adelaide, Australia
  • Honorary doctorate from the Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Leavell Lecture, awarded by the World Federation of Public Health Associations
  • Aventis Pasteur International Award, presented by the Canadian Public Health Association in recognition of contribution to international health
  • Andrija Stampar Prize and Medal for Outstanding Service to Public Health, awarded by the Association of Public Health Schools in the European Region (ASPHER) (2001)
  • The Salomon Neumann Medal for an important contribution to social medicine, awarded by the German Society for Social Medicine (2002)
  • The Gold Medal of Merit awarded by the Province of Vienna in Austria for a special contribution to the health of Viennese citizens
  • Federal government candidate for the office of Regional Director of WHO Europe
  • Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Lecture, School of Medicine, United Kingdom
  • Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, United Kingdom
  • VicHealth Award, presented by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Melbourne, Australia, for exceptional collaboration in health promotion
  • "Fellowship" of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for her doctorate
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Girona (2015)
  • Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2016)

Publications

Books

  • with Jeff Sturchio and Louis Galmbos (Eds.), The Road to Universal Health Coverage: Innovation, Equity and the New Health Economy , Johns Hopkins Press. Baltimore 2018
  • with Vivan Lin (Ed.), Progressing the Sustainable Development Goals through Health in All Policies: Case studies from around the world , Government of South Australia and WHO. Adelaide 2017
  • with Mihály Kökény (ed.), Health diplomacy: European perspectives , WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen 2017
  • with Stephen A. Matlin, Pathways to Global Health: Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy , Volume 2, World Scientific, Singapore 2017
  • with Thea Emmerling and Michaela Told, The European Union as a global health actor , World Scientific, Singapore 2016
  • Health in All Policies - a training manual , Geneva, World Health Organization 2015
  • with David Gleicher (Ed.), Smart Governance for Health and Wellbeing - the evidence , WHO Regional Office for Europe. Copenhagen 2014
  • with Susanne Hartung, Die Gesundheitsgesellschaft , Bern 2014
  • Jürgen Pelikan, Franklin Apfel, Agis Tsouros (eds.), Health Literacy - the solid facts , World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen 2013
  • with Ellen Rosskam (Ed.), Negotiating and Navigating Global Health: Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy . New Jersey: 2011.
  • with Kevin Buckett (Ed.). Implementing Health in All Policies . Adélaïde: 2010.
  • Policy Innovation for Health . Springer, 2009.
  • with Bernhard Bührlen (Ed.). Health innovation system: goals and benefits of health innovations . Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer Society, 2008.
  • with David McQueen, Louise Potvin, Jürgen Pelikan , Laura Balbo and Thomas Abel, On Health and Modernity: Theoretical foundations of health promotion . Springer, 2007.
  • with Raimund Geene and Anja Halkow (eds.). Prevention and health promotion - a social and political task . Berlin: Gesundheit Berlin, 2005.
  • with Kari Hartwig and Justin List (eds.). Globalization, Women, and Health in the 21st Century . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • with Bernhard Badura (ed.). Health Promotion Research: Towards a New Social Epidemiology , European Series No. 37. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1991.
  • Good Planets are Hard to Find , WHO Healthy Cities Paper No. 5. Copenhagen, 1989.
  • with Robert Anderson, John K. Davies, David V. McQueen, and Jill Turner (Eds.), Health Behavior Research and Health Promotion . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • The familialization of female work: On the structural similarity between paid and unpaid women's work . Constance, 1987.
  • with Barbara Riedmüller (Ed.). The poor women, women in the welfare state , anthology with international contributions. Introduction (with B. Riedmüller): Theoretical perspectives of a social policy analysis and family as a job - job as a family: The segregated labor market and the familialization of female work , Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, ​​1984, pp. 7–13 and 163–178.
  • with Stephen Hatch (Ed.). Self-help and Health in Europe: New Approaches in Health Care . Introduction: 'A Reorientation of Health Care', and conclusion: 'Making a Place for Self-help' (both with Stephen Hatch). Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1983.
  • with Alf Trojan (ed.). Together we are stronger, self-help groups and health security . Frankfurt, Fischer Alternativ, 1981.

Articles and chapters (selection)

  • Global health diplomacy: how foreign policy can influence health in British Medical Journal , Volume 342: 2011.
  • Global Health Diplomacy and Peace (with Paulo Buss) in Infectious Disease Clinics of North America , 25 (3): 2011, pp. 601-610.
  • with Wolfgang Hein and Gaudenz Silberschmidt, Addressing global health governance challenges through a new mechanism: the proposal for a Committee C of the World Health Assembly , in: The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Autumn 2010, JLME 38.3.
  • Moving global health governance forward . Chapter 15 in Buse et al, Making Sense of Global Health Governance: A Policy Perspective . Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
  • Global Health Diplomacy: the new recognition of health in foreign policy (with Christian Erk). Chapter 10 in: Andrew Clapham, Mary Robinson, and Salome Hangartner (Eds.), Realizing the right to health . 2009.
  • European Perspectives on Global Health: A Policy Glossary (with Graham Lister and David Gleicher). Bruxelles: European Foundation Center. Reworked and updated in 2009, http://www.globalhealtheurope.org
  • In search of the public health paradigm for the 21st century: the political dimensions of public health , in: Portuguese Journal of Public Health . 25th Anniversary Supplement Issue: Current public health challenges. Lisbon, 2009, pp. 11-19.
  • Health Promotion (Mittelmark, Kickbusch, Rootman, Scriven et Tones) in HK Heggenhougen and SR Quah, SR (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Public Health , Volume 3. Oxford: Academic Press, 2008, pp. 225-240
  • Health Governance: The Health Society in Kickbusch, McQueen et al (Eds.), Health and Modernity: Theoretical Foundations of Health Promotion . Springer, 2007, pp. 144-161.
  • Health promotion - Not a tree but a rhizome in O'Neill, M. et al (Eds.), Health promotion in Canada: Critical perspectives . (2nd edition). Toronto: 2007.
  • Global health diplomacy: training across disciplines (with Thomas E. Novotny, Nico Drager, Gaudenz Silberschmidt and Santiago Alcazar) in Bulletin of the World Health Organization , 85 (12): 2007, pp. 971-973.
  • Global health diplomacy: the need for new perspectives, strategic approaches and skills in global health (with Gaudenz Silberschmidt and Paulo Buss) in Bulletin of the World Health Organization , 85 (3): 2007, pp. 230-232.
  • Health and Wellbeing in Marshall Marinker (Ed.), Constructive Conversations about Health . Radcliffe, 2006, pp. 31-40.
  • Health Literacy: Towards active health citizenship (with Daniela Maag) in M. Sprenger (Ed.), Public health in Austria and Europe . Festschrift Horst Noack. Graz: 2006, pp. 151–158.
  • Navigating Health: The Role of Health Literacy (with Suzanne Wait and Daniela Maag). London, Alliance for Health and the Future, 2006.
  • Perspectives in health promotion and population health in American Journal of Public Health , March 93 (3): 2003, pp. 383-388.
  • Global Health Governance: some new theoretical considerations on the new political space . Chapter in K. Lee (Ed.), Globalization and Health . London, Palgrave, 2003, pp. 192-203
  • Influence and opportunity: Observations on the US role in global public health in Health Affairs , 21 (6): 2002, pp. 131-141.
  • Global influences and global responses: international health at the turn of the 21st century (with Kent Buse). Chapter in MH Merson, RE Black, and AJ Mills (Eds.), Handbook of International Public Health . Aspen Publishers, 2001, pp. 701-737
  • The development of international health policies: accountability intact? in Social Science & Medicine , 51: 2000, pp. 979-989. (Reprint in John Kirton (Ed.), Global Health, Library of Essays in Global Governance series . Ashgate, 2009.)
  • Partnerships for health in the 21st century (with Jonathan Quick) in World Statistics Quarterly , 51 (1): 1998, pp. 68-74
  • Research for Health: Challenge for the Nineties (with Kathryn Dean) in Shunichi Araki (Ed.), Behavioral Medicine: An integrated biobehavioral approach to health and illness . Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1992, pp. 299-308.
  • Self-care in Health Promotion in Social Science & Medicine , 29: 1989, pp. 125-130.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Healthcare Forum Journal , Volume 37, No. 3, May-June 1994
  2. ^ The Graduate Institute website, accessed February 22, 2012
  3. ↑ Jocalyn Clark, Ilona Kickbusch: Global health reformer , The Lancet 390 (10097), 2017, p. 835
  4. ↑ World Demographic & Aging Forum website , accessed February 22, 2012
  5. ^ Website of the Graduate Institute , accessed February 22, 2012
  6. ↑ Global Health Europe website , accessed February 22, 2012
  7. ↑ Website of the Careum Foundation, accessed on February 11, 2020
  8. ↑ "Ilona Kickbusch named to WHO Commission on Non-Communicable Diseases Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies", press release dated February 22, 2018
  9. ^ "WHO and World Bank Group Join Forces to Strengthen Global Health Security World Bank", press release of May 24, 2018
  10. ↑ Ilona Kickbusch, Kevin Buckett, Implementing Health in All Policies: Adelaide 2010 , Department of Health, Government of South Australia
  11. ^ Adelaide Thinkers in Residence website, accessed February 22, 2012
  12. ^ "Presentation of the National Action Plan on Health Literacy", press release from February 19, 2018
  13. ↑ UHC2030 welcomes Ilona Kickbusch as new Steering Committee co-chair UHC2030, press release June 12, 2018
  14. ↑ Professor Ilona Kickbusch joins GHP Advisory Board German Health Partnership (GHP), press release March 1, 2017
  15. ↑ Composition of the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission Announced Guttmacher Institute , press release of January 7, 2016
  16. ↑ Scientific Council International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP)
  17. ^ Public Health
  18. ↑ Center Virchow Villermé
  19. ^ German network of health promoting hospitals and health facilities
  20. ^ Council
  21. ^ Scientific Advisory Board Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence (HLCA) Consortium
  22. ↑ Speaker: Ilona Kickbusch European Forum Alpbach
  23. ↑ Speaker: Ilona Kickbusch , European Forum Alpbach
personal data
SURNAME Kickbusch, Ilona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich