The UCL Institute for Global Health Symposium, ‘Global Health Governance: Who is accountable to whom?’, took place on 13 May 2008. The symposium explored some of the questions of governance underlying the global health agenda, including: * what is governance and how does it differ from government? * should democracy be an important component of any global governance structure, and if so what sort of democracy is desirable or plausible? * do major philanthropists create a democratic deficit within the global governance of health, given that they provide a large proportion of the global...