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- public health
- health systems
- global health innovations
- digital health
- intersectionality
- university territory of health
- l’agence universitaire de la francophonie
In its first editorial, the BMJ Global Health exhorted its new readership to submit unique research pieces and views which are important to them. But beyond the importance of tackling the ‘information problem’, coined by the editor in chief Seye Abimbola,1 we also believe that key underlying structural strategies must be addressed, cutting across problems, diseases or populations. At the end of 2018, as a group of 11 Francophone junior and senior public and global health (we understand ‘public health’ and ‘global health’ as defined by Koplan and colleague’s 2009 article ‘Toward a common definition of global health’) researchers and academics, we met during the Annual Conference of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) held in Brussels.2 Echoing the concern of being inclusive of the broad global health community, we were asked the important question about reflecting on the future of global health innovations amid evolving and complex global contexts. Joining our efforts with the AUF to foster dynamic practices in the French-speaking globalised space, we brainstormed and recommended three key areas to promote population health and harness the public health challenges of tomorrow, both in the global South and North. These recommendations are digital health, the Intersectionality approach and social health responsibility …