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Renewing Nordic Leadership in Global Health
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2025
Abstract
Two expert groups on global health from Norway and Denmark have recently made important strides in reenergizing the debate on the role of the Nordic countries in global health. Their tailored recommendations — emphasizing core values of human rights, equity, accountability, and local ownership alongside health security — have proven influential at a time when new forms of international collaboration in global health are urgently needed.
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- © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
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About This Column: Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin serve as the section editors for Global Health Law. Professor Meier is a Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Senior Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is University Professor at Georgetown University and the Founding Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. This column features timely analyses and perspectives on law, policy, and justice in global health.
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