by ghgovernance | Dec 22, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Maternal Health, United Nations, Young Voices
By Tara Ornstein September 2015 will mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration, a landmark convention on women’s rights. Over the last two months, UN member states and civil society organizations have accelerated their review of the progress...
by ghgovernance | Dec 3, 2014 | Community Health, Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
By Thomas Hill The field of global health has expanded rapidly over the past decade and this has led it to be increasingly linked to the field of international development policy and practice. According to a United Nations Development and human rights for all report...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Spring-Autumn 2014
Desmond McNeill In Global Health Law Larry Gostin describes and analyses, with great authority and moral commitment, what law may be able to contribute to promoting the health of the world and especially those most disadvantaged. This book will surely serve as a...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | International Law, Spring-Autumn 2014
Suerie Moon The Ebola outbreak puts in clear focus central questions for the global health system: Who is responsible for getting the outbreak under control? What can and should be done by the governments of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and by international...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Complete Issues, Spring-Autumn 2014
Rebecca J. Cook Larry Gostin’s book, Global Health Law, moves us to envision a world in which global health law and governance play a more effective role in reducing gross global health inequities. In so instructing and inspiring us, he gives an insightful overview of...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Complete Issues, Governance, Spring-Autumn 2014
Eduardo J. Gomez The emerging nations of Brazil, China, and India are currently facing the costly epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes. While similar in their pursuit of world prominence, these nations nevertheless varied in the timing and depth of their policy...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Complete Issues, Spring-Autumn 2014
Chantal Blouin, Laurette Dube, Ebony Bertorelli and Monique Moreau This article presents a case study of the policy process leading to the UN High-Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The case study tests an analytical framework to understand the factors...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Complete Issues, Spring-Autumn 2014
Suchita Shah A controversial international debate has arisen between those who call for stronger intellectual property legislation to protect their scientific innovation, and those who claim ‘biopiracy’ of their traditional medical knowledge (TMK) under such...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Complete Issues, Spring-Autumn 2014
Eileen S. Natuzzi and Thomas Novotny International aid policy is evolving. The Rome Declaration on Harmonization, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action have shifted development assistance efforts toward recipient countries assuming...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Complete Issues, Spring-Autumn 2014
Laura L. Janik Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have the potential to distribute public goods and lessen the development gap between the Global North and Global South. By drawing together public and private entities, PPPs attempt to capitalize on the unique...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Complete Issues, Spring-Autumn 2014
Tiffany Robyn Soetikno , Agus Suwandono and Tikki Pang Introduction: The year 2014 has been a landmark and monumental year for Indonesia’s health care environment. The year began with the implementation of Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN), a public health care...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Complete Issues, Spring-Autumn 2014
Jenna Karp The ongoing political crisis in Syria between the Ba’ath regime and rebel forces has created a humanitarian disaster, with over 150,000 deaths and 2.8 million refugees. Civil war has been raging for over three years, as brutal fighting between forces loyal...
by ghgovernance | Aug 28, 2014 | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Security, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Health Organization
Tara Ornstein, Contributing Blogger The leaders of the global health community have sought to quell the hysteria surrounding the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. On 14 August 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement confirming that the risk of...
by ghgovernance | Jul 31, 2014 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog
Laurie Garrett and Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellows for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations In mid-July, the Chinese city of Yumen in the northwestern province of Gansu sealed itself off and placed 151 people in quarantine after a man was exposed to a Himalayan...
by ghgovernance | Jul 22, 2014 | Armed Forces/Military, Donor Assistance/Aid, Global Health Governance Blog, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, United Nations
Tara Ornstein, Contributing Blogger On July 7, 2014, the United Nations (UN) released a new report describing the world’s progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and noted several positive developments. According to the report, the proportion of...
by ghgovernance | Jul 17, 2014 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Governance
Yanzhong Huang, Editor of the Global Health Governance Journal and Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations Six years ago today, sixteen infants in China’s Gansu Province were diagnosed with kidney stones. All of them had been fed milk powder that...