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GLOBAL POLICY

GLI plays a sustained and credible role in shaping global health policy by ensuring patient voices are represented in international decision-making spaces. Our global policy work centers on advancing patient-centered solutions that reflect lived experience and the impact of health systems on individuals and communities. Through strategic advocacy, policy engagement, and coalition-building, GLI connects patients, civil society, and policymakers to drive change across health systems.

Global Health Governance in Geneva

Since 2023, GLI maintains a consistent presence in Geneva through engagement with the World Health Assembly (WHA) and World Health Organization-led processes. Our focus is to secure recognition of Steatotic Liver Disease within the non-communicable disease (NCD) framework. For more info about our WHA side events:
May 2026 WHA Side-event
May 2025 WHA Side-event
May 2024 WHA Side-event

United Nations Leadership on NCDs and Liver Health

GLI actively participated in the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases in New York City, in September 2025, advancing global momentum toward the formal recognition of Steatotic Liver Disease as an NCD. This work was reinforced by GLI’s leadership in organizing a dedicated working group to maintain high-level political attention on liver health and its impact on public health

European Policy Engagement

GLI engages directly with European policymakers through participation in high-level events held at the European Parliament. These interventions allow us to bring the patient perspective into policy discussions.

Engagement with the WHO Executive Board and Member States

GLI maintains a direct, trusted engagement with the WHO Executive Board through collaborations with multiple health ministries worldwide. We are actively contributing to the development of a forthcoming resolution on metabolic liver health, working to ensure sustained political commitment, policy coherence, and meaningful inclusion of patient priorities at the highest level of global health decision-making.

This initiative is made possible thanks to the support of: