# Key takeaways - [[global public goods (GPG)]] as a perspective can help building on existing work/programs. GPG should not be liberally used as a tag for fundraising, but rather specific goods and services where global collective action is needed. - The aid community should stress to policymakers that where [[global public goods (GPG)]] label is appropriate, as in the case of communicable disease control, what is needed is additional resources -> mobilizing [[innovative financing|innovative sources of financing]], eg, advance purchase commitments. - Provision and policy should focus on health sector strengthening rather than vertical disease-specific programs/actions. - [[global public goods (GPG)]] is a good which is rational, from the perspective of a group of nations collectively, to produce for universal consumption, and for which it is irrational to excude on individual nation from consuming, irrespective of whether that nation contributes to its financing.