Global health. The current scenario and future perspectives

59 2010, is a network of South-South collaborative academic institutions and emerged as a response to common health risks faced by their populations. The First Latin American Congress on Global Health took place on April 9-11, 2010. It was organized by the National Institute of Public Health and held on its campus in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. The congress coincided with the 19 th Annual Conference of the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC). This international congress primarily aimed to foster the creation and strengthening of partnerships for education and research in Global Health by promoting regional cooperation between English- speaking countries in North America and Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Notably, the event attracted 458 participants, 156 of whom came from Latin America. A total of 104 speakers participated, both conference attendees and presenters of scientific papers, of whom 51 represented Latin America. During this inaugural congress, the ASAG (Latin American Alliance for Global Health) was established, with representatives from academic institutions in Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru and Chile. From its inception, the Alliance set its ultimate goal to contribute to constructing programs and policies to promote equity in health and social justice in Latin America. The ALASAG is envisioned as a South-South collaboration network in Global Health that surfaced in response to common challenges and rooted in national realities, with deep respect for the idiosyncrasy and identity of the region’s peoples. The ALASAG’s ideology has been clear from the start, as it views Global Health as a way of perceiving and addressing health as a global public good, based on social justice and universal rights, revolving around equity, ethics and respect for human rights. It aims to advance the approach to Global Health in teaching, training, research and technical cooperation in Latin America through inter- institutional collaborations, with a vision to become the leading alliance for Global Health in Latin America and the region’s spokesperson globally. Since its inception, ALASAG has successfully organized six congresses, and the seventh congress will be held in 2022, organized by the University of Chile. 1 First Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Global Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico, April 2010: “Alliances in Global Health, learning South-South collaborations”. 2 Second Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Global Health, Santiago, Chile, January 2013: “Transcending borders for health equity”. 3 Third Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Global Health, San José, Costa Rica, 2014: “Global Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, challenges from the Americas”. 4 Fourth Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Global Health, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2016: “Technologies, global risks,