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ISGlobal-Barcelona: the Global Health Institute designed to fight the diseases that affect the most disadvantaged populations
Barcelona, 26 February 2010
The goal of the Barcelona Global Health Institute will be to improve the health of the more vulnerable populations and break the vicious circle of disease and poverty they are trapped in. It will tackle these problems with an innovatory approach through four spheres of action: research, ideas laboratory, training and advisory services.
HRH Infanta Cristina, director of the Fundació ”la Caixa” International Department, will be president of ISGlobal-Barcelona. Dr Pedro Alonso, current director of the Barcelona International Health Research Centre (CRESIB-Hospital Clínic de Barcelona-University of Barcelona), will be the director.
As active participants, ISGlobal-Barcelona will have the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and the Inbursa Foundation (Mexico), as well as distinguished figures such as Javier Solana, former high representative for the common foreign and security policy of the European Union, and Graça Machel, winner of the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in 1998.
ISGlobal-Barcelona will have its headquarters at Palau Macaya, a symbol of Modernisme and cultural centre of Fundació ”la Caixa” until CaixaForum Barcelona was created in 2003.
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The goal of the Barcelona Global Health Institute will be to improve the health of the more vulnerable populations and break the vicious circle of disease and poverty they are trapped in. It will tackle these problems with an innovatory approach through four spheres of action: research, ideas laboratory, training and advisory services.
The Global Health Institute is the product of cooperation between public and private institutions, as can be seen from the composition of the Board, where administrations, foundations and civil society are represented: Fundació ”la Caixa”, the Catalan Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, the Hospital Clínic and the University of Barcelona.
La consellera de Salut, Marina Geli; el director del Centro de Investigación en Salud Internacional de Barcelona, Pedro Alonso; Javier Solana, ex Alto Representante para la Política Exterior y de Seguridad de la Unión Europea; el presidente de ”la Caixa” y de la Fundación ”la Caixa”, Isidro Fainé; el rector de la Universidad de Barcelona, Dídac Ramírez; El presidente de la Generalitat, José Montilla; y la directora del Área Internacional de la Fundación ”la Caixa”, SAR la Infanta Doña Cristina
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