This blog is based on the chapter: Saatchi, A. G. (2026). The Role of Technology in Tackling Global Health Challenges. In Addressing Global Health Challenges Through Financial Innovation and Health Technologies. IGI Global Scientific Publishing. Full chapter available here: Read the full chapter. Global health is often discussed through the language of hospitals, doctors, medicines, and treatments. But the true scope of global health is much wider. It is shaped not only by c

The central failure in fertility policy is not simply whether care exists, but when people are able to access it. In fertility, delay is not a neutral administrative issue; it shapes outcomes, widens inequity, increases the likelihood of more invasive treatment, and can permanently narrow the window in which intervention is effective. Yet across the NHS, fertility care is still too often treated as though time is incidental. Birth rates have fallen to historic lows, with the

In November 2025, the Global Policy Network brought together healthcare leaders from pharmacy, primary care, policy, and digital health to ask a timely question: could neighbourhood care models be the key to stronger primary care and better population health outcomes? The discussion explored key challenges, including fragmented patient records, workforce pressures, and the practical realities of implementing integrated care. In the UK, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease

In England, homelessness carries a heavy human and economic toll - and it is not experienced equally. While the issue cuts across every community, evidence shows that Black individuals face a disproportionate and persistent risk of homelessness. This is a product of structural inequalities rippling across housing, health, and social systems that have been allowed to persist for far too long. This reality sits at the heart of Global Policy Network's recent report, “Homelessn

Nigeria’s pharmaceutical system is entering a defining moment. For decades, it has operated with fragmented coordination, limited manufacturing capacity, and heavy dependence on donor-driven delivery models. Today, these long-standing pressures have reached a critical point. The departure of global pharmaceutical companies, rising medicine prices and the approaching 2028 transition away from vaccine funding have created an environment where the system to confront realities ca

On Thursday 26th February, at the Business Services Hub of the Best Practice Show, the Global Policy Network convened a focused and timely panel session: From Ambition to Action: Making Prevention Deliverable in Primary Care. More than a discussion, the session marked the official launch of Primary Care Roundtable Report 1, the first in a series examining how to translate prevention policy into operational reality. Chairing the conversation was our CEO, Ameneh Saatchi, who gu

We are proud to launch our latest report from the Primary Care Series, capturing frontline insights on prevention, neighbourhood integration and digital reform, and setting out practical steps to secure a resilient future for UK primary care.

Medicines sit at the centre of almost every patient interaction across the NHS. Yet the systems designed to support their safe and effective use remain fragmented, unevenly digitised, and often disconnected from the realities of frontline care. While policy ambition around digital transformation has accelerated, the practical conditions needed to translate data into better medicines use have not always kept pace. These themes shaped the fifth roundtable in the UK Medicines Po

As the NHS undergoes profound technological, educational and workforce shifts, pharmacy must evolve alongside it. The fourth roundtable of the UK Medicines Policy Series, hosted by the Global Policy Network (GPN), examined this moment of transition through a unifying lens: innovation. Chair Reena Patel captured the purpose of the session clearly: “We will explore the future of the profession through that lens of innovation and explore how pharmacy can drive better outcomes th

The NHS is asking more of pharmacists than ever before, yet the systems designed to support them have not kept pace. As workforce pressures intensify across the health service, pharmacy at a critical juncture: highly trained, widely accessible, and increasingly essential, but still constrained by structural barriers. Today, that is evolving into a new strategic frontier, one that asks; " How do we develop and utilise the pharmacy workforce to meet growing system needs?". Thi

Nigeria’s Joint Annual Review (JAR) 2025 offers one of the clearest signals yet that the country’s health sector is not just reforming it is transforming. Twenty-three months into the Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative (NHSRII), the results are becoming visible, measurable, and scalable. This year’s review brought together leaders from Federal, State, and Local Governments, the private sector, civil society, and development partners under the theme: All Hands, One M