GHEF hosts live consensus building forums that bring together healthcare providers, administrators, experts, community leaders, and crucially, rural and small community leaders who often have no formal health background or support.
These gatherings identify critical gaps, discuss practical solutions, and build collective ownership of actions needed to strengthen healthcare systems and advance equity.
Key examples include:
• Making Tangible Improvements Toward Health Equity, Geneva, 2010 — convened during the World Health Assembly in partnership with WHO, setting a global framework for health equity dialogue.
• Priorities in Healthcare Delivery in Eastern Montana, Miles City, 2011 — a three-part series (March, June, September) that engaged local providers and small-town leaders to produce actionable consensus statements addressing rural health delivery gaps.
• Syrian International Coalition for Health, Istanbul, 2012 — tackling internal conflict’s impacts on health systems and shaping post-conflict priorities.
• New Methodology – Analysing Health Equity Gaps, London, 2012 — refining methods to measure and address equity shortfalls in health systems.
Recent forums in Geneva and Bonn have also focused on designing scalable licensing pathways to make GHEF’s programs more accessible to grassroots organizations while sustaining operational effectiveness.
Related Services
• Consensus forum facilitation and documentation
• Methodology co-design for equity gap assessments and participatory research