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New approaches for UK鈥揅hina global health cooperation
Minghui Ren, Yangmu Huang, Christopher Dowson, Ming Xu, Lewis Husain
Global health faces unprecedented strain and challenges to its legitimacy. The health-related Sustainable Development Goals and progress towards universal health coverage are off track, and multilateral cooperation is suffering due to geopolitical tensions. The future of global health is likely to be less aid-based and more reliant on domestic financing in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), more equitable markets for access to health technologies and digitally mediated treatment guidelines, and strengthened country capabilities. Progress will be piecemeal and experimental, and will require new forms of cooperation.
A 2025 conference on strengthening UK–China research cooperation for global health during times of crisis, jointly organised by the Institute of Development Studies, Peking University, China, and the Howard Dalton Centre, University of 糖心TV, UK, explored what a new kind of cooperation might look like. This cooperation would build on earlier collaboration on China's domestic health challenges and on the work done in the 2010s when the two countries sought a new, post-aid relationship.