by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Fall 2010 Special Issue: Global Health Goverance and the AIDS Response
Global Health Governance and the AIDS Response Guest Editors: Michel Sidibé and Kent Buse People, Passion & Politics: Looking Back and Moving forward In the Governance of the AIDS Response Michael Sidibé, Sonja Tanaka, and Kent Buse The Pipers Call Their Tunes in...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Health Security, Pandemic Response
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 Reviewed by Michael Stevenson The...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Book Review, HIV/AIDS, Pandemic Response
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 Reviewed by Marina Karbowski The beginning of the 21st century is marked by the...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Asia
Living Organ Transplantation Policy Transition in Asia: Towards Adaptive Policy Changes Alex He Jingwei, Allen Lai Yu-Hung, and Leong Ching Advances in medical science have opened up a new supply channel of organs for sick patients. But health policies to match supply...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Economics
The Role of Economic Power in Influencing the Development of Global Health Governance Richard D. Smith The configuration of economic actors has shifted dramatically in recent decades as a consequence of the shift from an international to global economy. The 21st...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Civil Society, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, World Health Organization
Civil Society Organizations and the Functions of Global Health Governance: What Role within Intergovernmental Organizations? Kelley Lee Amid discussion of how global health governance should and could be strengthened, the potential role of civil society organizations...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Health Systems
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 Debates around health...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Pandemic Response
Control of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDRTB): A Root Cause Analysis Jennifer Prah Ruger The threat of global infectious agents has the potential to cripple national and global economies, as the outbreaks of SARS, Avian Flu, H1N1, and XDR-TB have...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Asia, North America
Confronting Global Pandemics: Lessons from China and the U.S. Rachel D. Schwartz and Jonathan Schwartz The 2003 outbreak of SARS and its subsequent spread raised awareness about the global threat of emerging infectious diseases. The Chinese response to this disease,...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Health Security, North America
The North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza: A Case Study of Regional Health Security in the 21st Century Donald Howard Avery In August 2007, the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States established the North American Plan for Avian &...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Pandemic Response
H1N1 Returns, Again: The Globalization, Re-Conceptualization and Vaccination of “Swine Flu” James Ricci With the emergence of H1N1 in April 2009 and the subsequent declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organization, infectious diseases have once again taken a...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Pandemic Response
Governance Implications of Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance and Response as Global Public Goods Joshua Michaud Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are a continuing and serious threat to global health and welfare, but worldwide, country-level disease...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Pandemic Response
Look But Don’t Touch: Overemphasis on Surveillance in Analysis of Outbreak Response Frank L. Smith Most literature about global health governance assumes that surveillance is the most important public health function during pandemics and other transnational outbreaks....
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Asia, Global Health Diplomacy, Pandemic Response
Indonesia, H5N1, and Global Health Diplomacy Rachel Irwin The World Health Organization (WHO) is mandated to be the United Nations specialized agency for health. However, in light of changing disease trends, the increased “globalization” of health, and the entry of...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | International Health Regulations, Pandemic Response
The Revised International Health Regulations: A Framework for Global Pandemic Response Rebecca Katz and Julie Fischer The 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak tested the revised International Health Regulations [IHR (2005)] robustly for the first time. The IHR (2005)...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | International Health Regulations, International Law, Sub-Saharan Africa
Is There an International Duty to Protect Persons in the Event of an Epidemic? Sara E. Davies In 2006, the International Law Commission began a study into the role of states and international organizations in protecting persons in the event of a disaster. Special...