EU Global Health Strategy’s 20 Guiding Principles (European Commission, 2022b).

1. Prioritize tackling the root causes of ill health, paying particular attention to the rights of women and girls, and to vulnerable populations and disadvantaged groups.
2. Improve equitable access to a full range of essential health services from health promotion to disease prevention and affordable quality treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care to fight communicable and non-communicable diseases.
3. Improve primary health care with built-in surge capacity, and enhance core public health capacities to meet the requirements of the International Health Regulations.
4. Foster digitalization as a fundamental enabler.
5. Boost global health research to develop the technologies and countermeasures which are necessary to improve health.
6. Address workforce imbalances and foster skills.
7. Strengthen capacities for prevention, preparedness and response and early detection of health threats globally.
8. Work towards a permanent global mechanism that fosters the development of and equitable access to vaccines and countermeasures for low- and middle-income countries.
9. Negotiate an effective legally binding pandemic agreement with a One Health approach and strengthened International Health Regulations.
10. Build a robust global collaborative surveillance network to better detect and act on pathogens.
11. Apply a comprehensive One Health approach and intensify the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
12. Link effectively all policies and measures that have an impact on global health within the Commission, EU agencies and EU financing institutions.
13. Better link and coordinate policies and measures of the EU and its Member States to speak with one voice and deliver effective action worldwide.
14. Support a stronger, effective and accountable WHO.
15. Steer the new global health governance by filling gaps and ensuring coherence of action.
16. Ensure a stronger EU role in international organizations and bodies.
17. Expand partnerships based on equal footing, co-ownership, mutual interest and strategic priorities.
18. Strengthen engagement with key global health stakeholders.
19. Enhance EU finance for global health with maximum impact.
20. Assess progress and ensure the accountability of the EU’s global health action through permanent monitoring and assessment.