In order to design metrics and produce a solidarity index and ranking that will measure the practice of solidarity among global health actors across national, financial, or socio-cultural differences on global health challenges, empirical work is ongoing to enable us to build an understanding of what solidarity means, involves, and can achieve in and for global health, in the eyes of diverse global health actors. We are interviewing approximately 120 global health stakeholders across the global health ecosystem. These include actors based at the community level, within government and inter-governmental agencies and programs, research institution directors, and private sector funders. This study will expand understandings of what solidarity means and can look like in diverse settings, and document and compare lived experiences of solidarity and its role in advancing global health goals. Most interviews will be conducted with people whose voices are under-represented historically in global health funding and governance and participants are being recruited purposively, to ensure diversity in the types of actors and organizations represented, and representation across WHO regions.  

For more info on these interviews, contact project manager Mary Ndu (mndu@uwo.ca) or Qualitative study lead Elysée Nouvet (enouvet@uwo.ca)