Tackling Pandemics as a Governance Challenge
Guest Editor: Jeremy Youde
Introduction
Jeremy Youde
Is There an International Duty to Protect Persons in the Event of an Epidemic?
Sara E. Davies
The Revised International Health Regulations: A Framework for Global Pandemic Response
Rebecca Katz and Julie Fischer
Indonesia, H5N1, and Global Health Diplomacy
Rachel Irwin
Look but Don’t Touch: Overemphasis on Surveillance in Analysis of Outbreak Response
Frank L. Smith
Governance Implications of Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance and Response as Global Public Goods
Joshua Michaud
H1N1 Returns, Again: The Globalization, Re-conceptualization and Vaccination of “Swine Flu”
James Ricci
The North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza: A Case Study of Regional Health Security in the 21st Century
Donald Howard Avery
Confronting Global Pandemics: Lessons from China and the U.S.
Rachel D. Schwartz and Jonathan Schwartz
Control of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB): Root Cause Analysis
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Other Research Articles
Converging Health Systems Frameworks: Towards A Concepts-to-Actions Roadmap for Health Systems Strengthening in Low and Middle Income Countries
George Shakarishvili, Rifat Atun, Peter Berman, William Hsiao, Craig Burgess, and Mary Ann Lansang
The Role of Economic Power in Influencing the Development of Global Health Governance
Richard D. Smith
Living Organ Transplantation Policy Transition in Asia: towards Adaptive Policy Changes
Alex He Jingwei, Allen Lai Yu-Hung, and Leong Ching
Book Reviews
Review of Virus Alert: Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic by Stefan Elbe. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 224 pp. Hardcover: $45.00, ISBN: 978-0-231-14868-9
Marina Karbowski
Review of Who’s In Charge: Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises, by Laura H. Kahn. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, 2009. 236 pp. Hardcover: $49.95, ISBN: 978-0-275-99485-3
Michael Stevenson