{"id":1711,"date":"2019-09-18T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T02:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2019-10-16T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T03:35:17","slug":"global-health-the-australian-government-aid-program-and-the-triple-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2019\/09\/18\/global-health-the-australian-government-aid-program-and-the-triple-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Global health, the Australian government aid program and the triple transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/361261467?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Widening health inequities, emerging disease threats, and shortfalls in financing for health are challenging\u00a0the\u00a0gains made in global health over the past 20 years.\u00a0 Many countries face a \u2018triple transition\u2019: Epidemiologically &#8211;\u00a0 from infectious to chronic diseases; Financially \u2013 from donor to domestic financing of health, and Structurally &#8211; as health systems reorganise to achieve universal health coverage.\u00a0 Dr Stephanie Williams will provide an overview of Australia\u2019s global health contribution with practical examples of how the aid program is adapting to these changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Stephanie Williams is the Principal Health Specialist at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra, where she provides strategic and technical advice on health for the aid program. Stephanie is a public health physician and Visiting Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at Australia National University. Previously Stephanie was formerly a medical adviser to Australia\u2019s Chief Medical Officer, and with\u00a0M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res\u00a0(MSF) and the World Health Organization in\u00a0Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widening health inequities, emerging disease threats, and shortfalls in financing for health are challenging\u00a0the\u00a0gains made in global health over the past 20 years.\u00a0 Many countries face a \u2018triple transition\u2019: Epidemiologically &#8211;\u00a0 from infectious to chronic diseases; Financially \u2013 from donor to domestic financing of health, and Structurally &#8211; as health systems reorganise to achieve universal health coverage.\u00a0 Dr Stephanie Williams will provide an overview of Australia\u2019s global health contribution with practical examples of how the aid program is adapting to these changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12691,12690,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-health","category-public-health","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}