Global working groups (GWG)

 

The IUHPE has organised a range of Global Working Groups (GWG) to set, support and sustain an agenda for the IUHPE scientific affairs portfolio. Although they all have a different contextual backdrop for their establishment and development, the formation of each GWG is related to a direct IUHPE response to its membership's expressions of interest and the need to convene a set of global professionals around a specific facet of the scientific affairs programme.

 

Theses IUHPE global working groups are embedded in within the portfolio of the IUHPE Vice-President for Scientific Affairs. These groups are comprised of professionals from around the globe, by invitation of the IUPHE HQ, the VP for Scientific Affairs and the GWG Chair, according to the aims and objectives of the GWGs as defined by their Terms of Reference.

 

A distinguishing factor of the GWG is that they are all grounded in a set of core principles:

 

As part of its scientific collaborations, the IUHPE has a number of scientific advisory groups and similar ad-hoc groups that are project or topic based.