Matsumura Hiroshi, Nishimura Yoshito, Horiuchi Hisayo, Higashiraa Toshitaka, Kita Yosuke, Nishizawab Hideaki
International Affairs Division, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan.
Glob Health Med. 2019 Dec 31;1(2):65-70. doi: 10.35772/ghm.2019.01033.
The third G20 Health Ministers' Meeting was held in Okayama, Japan on October 19-20, 2019. The authors were involved in the decision making of the substantial issues of this meeting including theme setting, schedule management, facilitating the discussion, and preparation for the ministers' meeting. Here, we summarize our lessons of experience from hosting G20 Okayama Health Ministers' Meeting as: ) Utilizing the occasion of existing major health related meeting to gain efficiency; ) Collaboration with other G20 tracks such as finance can function as a tool to facilitate inter-sectoral collaboration within other G20 members; ) Two-day Health Working Group before the ministerial meeting provides sufficient time for negotiation of the declaration text; and iv) Inclusion of residents and representatives of the host city provides great opportunity to create G20 legacy. Such an experience of Japanese policymaking is rarely shared in English and the lessons learned from our experience shall provide meaningful advice for Saudi Arabia colleagues who are to hold the next G20 Health Ministers' Meeting as well as for the preparation of other G20 ministerial meetings.
第三届二十国集团（G20）卫生部长会议于2019年10月19日至20日在日本冈山举行。作者参与了本次会议实质性议题的决策，包括主题设定、日程管理、推动讨论以及部长级会议筹备等工作。在此，我们总结了主办G20冈山卫生部长会议的经验教训如下：（1）利用现有重大卫生相关会议的契机提高效率；（2）与G20其他领域（如金融领域）合作可作为促进G20其他成员国部门间协作的工具；（3）部长级会议前为期两天的卫生工作组会议为宣言文本谈判提供了充足时间；（4）吸纳主办城市居民和代表参与提供了创造G20遗产的绝佳机会。日本的这一决策经验鲜有用英文分享，我们从经验中汲取的教训将为即将主办下一届G20卫生部长会议的沙特阿拉伯同行以及其他G20部长级会议的筹备工作提供有意义的建议。
