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The Global Health Council is a United States-based non-profit networking organizing linking "several hundred health non-governmental organizations (NGOs) around the world to share knowledge and resources, build partnerships and together become stronger advocates for health". The Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to advancing policies and programs that improve health around the world. The Council serves and represents thousands of public health professionals from over 100 countries on six continents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Global Health Council — Press )〕 They work to address health concerns worldwide in five core issue "identified as critical to improving health and promoting equity" to "reduce disease and death in all countries":〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Global Health Council — Key Issues )〕 The council sponsors international conferences, makes available a diverse field of multi-disciplinary specialists for media interests and policy makers.〔 〕 According to their website the Council "works to ensure that all who strive for improvement and equity in global health have the information and resources they need to succeed."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Global Health Council — Who We Are )〕 On April 20, 2012 the Board of Directors announced that the Council will close operations within the coming months.〔http://www.globalhealth.org/Home_Page.html〕 After shutting its doors, GHC re-opened with a newly elected board of directors on January 1, 2013.〔http://www.humanosphere.org/2013/02/the-sudden-death-and-rebirth-of-the-global-health-council/〕 ==History== The Global Health Council is continuing to grow as the voice for global health by using media outreach and its publications, including the Global Health Magazine ",〔(The Global Health Magazine )〕 its annual conference and its website to promote advocacy, education and information sharing. As the council evolved, its name had to evolve to correctly reflect the scope of the Council's work. In 1998, the National Council for International Health became the Global Health Council to better represent its work in the 21st century. The inclusion of global in its name reflected the Council's goal to include more international organizations and individuals in its membership and become the preeminent non-governmental source of information, practical experience, analysis and public advocacy for the most pressing global health issues. Since 1998, the Council has been organizing the Global Health Action Network in pursuit of its advocacy building goals."〔(Global Health Action Network )〕 The idea is to establish groups of motivated citizens across the U.S. with the objective to educate local communities and their elected officials about the need for a more proactive approach to global health. With this network in place, the Council is able to implement nationwide advocacy campaigns dealing with vital global health issues. As part of the Council's work in advocacy and developing awareness of the AIDS crisis, the seventeen-year-old International AIDS Candlelight Memorial event came under their stewardship in 1999.〔(Evaluation of the Global Health Council )〕 The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial has grown to include 1,500 communities in more than 100 countries.〔(25 Years of AIDS Candlelight Memorial Parallels History of AIDS Epidemic ) "Global AIDSLink" www.globalhealth.org | November/December 2007 | #106.〕 It is the world's largest and oldest grassroots HIV/AIDS event.〔(AIDS Candlelight Memorial ) NBC Radio, 2008-12-23. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Global Health Council」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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