Abstract
The Diplomacy & Health initiative, launched in New York in September 2006 by the foreign ministers of Norway and France, and by the foreign ministers of South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and Senegal, was formalized in the Oslo Ministerial Declaration of March 20, 2007, which calls for international health to be considered a major foreign policy issue.
It reflects the growing awareness in foreign policy and diplomacy of the challenges posed by global health, particularly in the first decade of the 21st century, and calls for global health to be a full-fledged issue of diplomacy and foreign policy based on the questions of our time.
The Oslo process gained prominence in large part by harnessing and attempting to continue this momentum through the initiative's strategic action. It acted, for example, as a catalyst for the adoption of resolutions on foreign policy and global health by the United Nations General Assembly.
