by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change, Current Issue
VOLUME X, NO. 1 SPECIAL ISSUE 2020 Climate Change and Global Health Security: An Overview of the Scope and Issues Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. and Nicholas Seltzer Elevating the Status of Health in Global Environmental Politics: Securitizing the Nexus between...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. and Nicholas Seltzer The links between climate change and health security have been under investigation for decades. However, at its core, linking climate change to health security faces a number of complex obstacles, most of which are...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Geoffrey B. Cockerham Considerations of health have received little notice in international climate change negotiations and agreements. To address this issue, the nexus between climate change and health in global politics should be strengthened. I argue that this...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Andrew Defor and Theresa Valerie Oheneba-Dornyo The impact of climate change on human health is becoming increasingly evident. Several studies have linked disease outbreaks to climate change within the last decade, re-affirming the threat of climate change to human...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Summer Marion While health and climate science recognize a clear linkage between infectious diseases and effects of climate change, outbreaks and disasters are frequently framed as standalone crises in public discourse. Drawing on public policy image framing...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Yara M. Asi The needs of fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) are usually framed in terms of humanitarian or security aims. As a result, health security in FCAS is poor. Yet in the background of these competing forces is the approaching threat of climate...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Kelly F. Austin, Mark D. Noble, and Laura A. McKinney HIV/AIDS remains a serious public health threat in less-developed countries, especially for women. Drawing on ecofeminist perspectives, we explore linkages between climate-related disasters, food insecurity, and...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Destini M. Garrison, Radina P. Soebiyanto, Sarah Hutchinson, Assaf Anyamba and Tomoko Y. Steen The Republic of Yemen has concurrently fallen victim to political and climatic disruptions causing the largest cholera epidemic. Recent conditions in Yemen provide a...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Sebastian Kevany The Solomon Islands, as with many resource poor settings, faces multiple direct and indirect threats to public health. These include environmental, population, health security and globalization considerations; similarly, a range of ostensibly...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Thomas Lange What role can regions, or more precisely regional organizations, play in the further development of international health and climate policy? If one shifts the view from the global system to regional spaces, it becomes clear that the development of...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Daniel Gilfillan Globally, negative climate change impacts on public health are addressed using a variety of managerial approaches. In donor-funded initiatives, project-based approaches dominate, however an emerging literature questions the effectiveness of the...
by ghgovernance | Nov 2, 2019 | 2019 Fall and Spring Issue, Complete Issues, Recent Issue
VOLUME IX, NO. 1 & 2 2019 SPRING & FALL COMBINED ISSUE TABLE OF CONTENTS Japan’s Health Diplomacy: Projecting Soft Power in the Era of Global Health Hisashi Kato, Tim K. Mackey, and Yee K. Heng Why Does Global Health Matter to Diplomacy? Global Health as a...
by ghgovernance | Nov 2, 2019 | 2019 Fall and Spring Issue
By Hisashi Kato, Tim K. Mackey, and Yee K. Heng Few scholars have studied the use of “Global Health Diplomacy” by the Japanese Government, a unique form of diplomacy that relies on the use of “soft power” and “smart power” but also one that is undergoing changes based...
by ghgovernance | Nov 2, 2019 | 2019 Fall and Spring Issue
By Kotono Hara and Satoshi Ezoe Why does global health matter to diplomacy as an agenda of world leaders while those leaders are facing other competing agendas? To respond to this question, the authors, who engaged in the preparatory and follow-up process of the...
by ghgovernance | Nov 2, 2019 | 2019 Fall and Spring Issue
By Raad Fadaak This paper traces the uneven and recent history of ‘global health security’ (GHS) as a conceptual space that emerged in the 1990s, and questions how it is undergoing transformation today. It argues that GHS has shifted – from at one time...
by ghgovernance | Nov 2, 2019 | 2019 Fall and Spring Issue
By Aliya Allen-Valley and Mark Daku This piece explores international responses to the 2013-2016 Ebola and 2016 Zika Virus outbreaks. It argues that international responses were heavily reactive in nature as they occurred long after the initial outbreaks and were...