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Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0PLOS Global Public Health

Preparing current and emerging health leaders: An innovative competency-based framework for health diplomacy

  • Esperanza Martinez1
  • Ellen Rosskam2
  • Garry Aslanyan3
  • Lyndsay Baines4
  • Ryuichi Komatsu5
  • Nikica Darabos6
  • Brian Li Han Wong7
  • Nina Viberg8
  • Mariko Hososawa9
  • Ren Minghui10
  • Magda Robalo Correia e Silva11
  • Anders Nordstrom12
12 affiliations
  1. 1College of Law, Governance and Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  2. 2Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
  3. 3Center for Social Epidemiology, Los Angeles, United States of America
  4. 4Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  5. 5UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva, Switzerland
  6. 6Wolfson College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  7. 7Interfaculty Initiative in Planetary Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
  8. 8School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
  9. 9Navigo Partners, LLC, Japan
  10. 10Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Split, Croatia
  11. 11Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
  12. 12Department of Global Public Health and Center of Excellence for Sustainable Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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Abstract

Health diplomacy is increasingly recognized as critical domain of practice for advancing global health equity, navigating political complexity, and fostering cooperation across sectors and borders. Yet formal training opportunities remain limited worldwide, with existing programs differing in length, depth and content, and lacking a shared core curriculum. To address these persistent gaps, the Health Diplomacy Institutional Network (HDIN) developed a globally informed, competency-based training framework that contributes to the professionalization of the field by offering a shared foundation for capacity building in health diplomacy. Co-developed by global experts and practitioners, the framework identifies five key competencies – global health knowledge, political and diplomatic acumen, strategic leadership, cross-cultural communication, and advocacy and coalition-building – each articulated across four progressive levels of mastery, from basic to expert. This structure enables institutions to align training content with learners’ roles, experience levels, and contexts. The framework’s flexible, outcomes-based design allows for adaptation across institutional missions, educational formats, and geopolitical settings. Accompanied by practical implementation tools, the HDIN Training Framework supports high-quality, context-responsive capacity-building for academic institutions, governments, NGOs, and multilateral organizations. It aims to equip a health diplomacy workforce capable of advancing health priorities amid intensifying global interdependence and uncertainty.

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@article{martinez2026preparing,
  title = {{Preparing current and emerging health leaders: An innovative competency-based framework for health diplomacy}},
  author = {Esperanza Martinez and Ellen Rosskam and Garry Aslanyan and Lyndsay Baines and Ryuichi Komatsu and Nikica Darabos and Brian Li Han Wong and Nina Viberg and Mariko Hososawa and Ren Minghui and Magda Robalo Correia e Silva and Anders Nordstrom},
  journal = {PLOS Global Public Health},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pgph.0004974},
  url = {https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0004974},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Preparing current and emerging health leaders: An innovative competency-based framework for health diplomacy
AU  - Esperanza Martinez
AU  - Ellen Rosskam
AU  - Garry Aslanyan
AU  - Lyndsay Baines
AU  - Ryuichi Komatsu
AU  - Nikica Darabos
AU  - Brian Li Han Wong
AU  - Nina Viberg
AU  - Mariko Hososawa
AU  - Ren Minghui
AU  - Magda Robalo Correia e Silva
AU  - Anders Nordstrom
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/15
JO  - PLOS Global Public Health
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004974
UR  - https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0004974
AB  - Health diplomacy is increasingly recognized as critical domain of practice for advancing global health equity, navigating political complexity, and fostering cooperation across sectors and borders. Yet formal training opportunities remain limited worldwide, with existing programs differing in length, depth and content, and lacking a shared core curriculum. To address these persistent gaps, the Health Diplomacy Institutional Network (HDIN) developed a globally informed, competency-based training framework that contributes to the professionalization of the field by offering a shared foundation for capacity building in health diplomacy. Co-developed by global experts and practitioners, the framework identifies five key competencies – global health knowledge, political and diplomatic acumen, strategic leadership, cross-cultural communication, and advocacy and coalition-building – each articulated across four progressive levels of mastery, from basic to expert. This structure enables institutions to align training content with learners’ roles, experience levels, and contexts. The framework’s flexible, outcomes-based design allows for adaptation across institutional missions, educational formats, and geopolitical settings. Accompanied by practical implementation tools, the HDIN Training Framework supports high-quality, context-responsive capacity-building for academic institutions, governments, NGOs, and multilateral organizations. It aims to equip a health diplomacy workforce capable of advancing health priorities amid intensifying global interdependence and uncertainty.
SN  - 2767-3375
ER  -