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 | Jul 14, 2014 | Community Health, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Technology, Human Resources for Health
Cynthia Lee, Independent Global Health Researcher To scroll through the websites of global health crowdfunding platforms is to stumble into a world of deep and urgent need. On one website, Watsi, lack of funds and access to care fuel the growth of simple illnesses...
by ghgovernance | May 5, 2014 | Community Health, Global Health Governance Blog, Universal Health Coverage
Jay Chittooran, Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations The global support for universal health coverage (UHC) is wide-ranging. But on top of the potentially troubling role of domestic and global politics that has been previously examined, another large...
by ghgovernance | Apr 30, 2014 | Asia, Community Health, Industry, Young Voices
By Jeanifer Uwaechie, Rutgers University in New Brunswick It is no longer news that the Chinese economy has made great strides in recent years. In the past 10 years in particular, China has achieved what developed countries did in several decades or even centuries....
by ghgovernance | Jun 5, 2013 | Community Health, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Technology
Jane Cohen, Contributing Blogger Researcher, Human Rights Watch This article is a crosspost with the Huffington Post, at the author’s permission. For Abigail Chombo in Zimbabwe, World Environment Day will pass like any other; a day with no safe water to drink, a...
by ghgovernance | Mar 22, 2013 | Asia, Community Health, Global Health Governance Blog
Jay T. Chittooran, Guest Blogger Research Associate, Council on Foreign Relations As it’s been reported here and elsewhere, air pollution is quite literally the cause of many headaches in China. The smog is at historic and alarming levels, and there’s no respite in...
by ghgovernance | Dec 31, 2012 | Community Health, Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Human Security, Most Recent Issue
Civil Society’s Contribution to Budget Advocacy for Sexual and Reproductive Health: Findings and Lessons Learned from Three Country Studies in Bangladesh, The Philippines and Uganda Clare Dickinson, Dale Huntington, Rene Loewenson, Terri Collins, Sujit Ghosh and Nel...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Community Health, HIV/AIDS
Social Capital and Effective HIV Prevention: Community Responses Daniel Low-Beer, Musoke Sempala Most work on health governance has been concerned with global and national coordination; this paper assesses the governance challenge of building HIV prevention programs...