Morning Briefing

In this post in the Global Health Governance blog, Jenilee Guebert, director of research for the global health diplomacy program and G8 research group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, writes that, "for the second year in a row, the amount of attention devoted to global health" at the annual G8 summit, which took place at Camp David in Maryland in May, has declined. "Global health was not completely absent from the summit," she continues, highlighting several health initiatives discussed at the meeting, including the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, launched "to accelerate the flow of private capital to African agriculture" with an aim of "lift[ing] 50 million people out of poverty over the next decade."