Advocacy Initiatives
The IAHPC Advocacy and Partnerships Senior Director and IAHPC members have participated as delegates and representatives in several meetings of UN organizations and civil society organizations. This section includes links to presentations and reports.
2025 Advocacy Initiatives
Commission on Narcotic Drugs Session 68, 2025
- IAHPC statement to CND68 Plenary on Agenda Item 5d(d) International cooperation to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes while preventing their diversion.
- IAHPC Written Submission on Agenda Item 5 (d) International cooperation to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes while preventing their diversion.
- Statement of the Ambassador for Ghana at IAHPC Side Event
- Recording of IAHPC Side Event CND68 Improving Equitable Global Availability & Affordability of Internationally Controlled Essential Medicines in Africa
- Presentations
- IAHPC Oral Statement to CND68 Plenary Agenda Item 6 Follow-up to the implementation at the national, regional and international levels of all commitments, as reflected in the Ministerial Declaration of 2019, to address and counter the world drug problem.
- WHO statement to CND68 on Agenda item 5d, Availability of Controlled Medicines
PallCHASE Webinar February 19 & 20 "Making The Case for Palliative Care in Humanitarian Settings"
Katherine Pettus presentation "Palliative Care in Emergencies: The Global Normative Framework"
Why the IAHPC is supporting national palliative care associations in 2025
International, interfaith webinar on World Day of the Sick 2025
156th Meeting of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization
- IAHPC statement on Mental Health And Social Connection - Video recording
- Health Conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory - Video recording
- IAHPC Advocacy Note WHO EB156 Health Workforce
- IAHPC Led Constituency Statement WHO's Work in Emergencies - Video recording
- IAHPC Advocacy Note WCA Health WHO EB156
- IAHPC Note 156 EB WHO WCA Health FR
- Nota IAHPC - OMS EB156 español
IAHPC Statement at OHCHR Expert Workshop on Access to Medicines January 21
IAHPC webinars for G2H2 Policy Debates prior to WHO EB156 Series
Dianova Webinar "Ensuring the right to health through evidence based public health approach to substance use challenges"
- Improving availability of internationally controlled essential medicines under right to health, Katherine Pettus Presentation for Dianova webinar
- Recording of webinar
IAHPC webinar "UHC is incomplete and inequitable without access to palliative care"
- Recording of session
- Presentation by Katherine Pettus
- Presentation by Sherin Paul
- Presentation by Daniel Munday
- Presentation by Hammoda Abu-Odah
- Presentation by Eve Namisango
2022-2024 LEAD Project Presentations
- Albania: Irena Laska
- Burkina Faso: Eric N. Somé
- Colombia: María Adelaida Córdoba
- Zambia: Mwate Joseph Chaila
- India: Piyush Gupta