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 | Dec 20, 2018 | Africa, Asia, Complete Issues, Fall 2018 Issue, Trade, World Health Organization
VOLUME XII, NO. 2 FALL 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS Full Text Chinese Global Health Diplomacy in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges Olivia Killeen, Alissa Davis, Joe Tucker and Benjamin Mason Meier Regional Health Security: An Overview of Strengthening ASEAN’s Capacities...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2018 | Fall 2018 Issue
by Olivia J. Killeen, Alissa Davis, Joseph D. Tucker, and Benjamin Mason Meier China has become a key actor in global health diplomacy, particularly in Africa, but little attention has been given to the evolution of Chinese health assistance to African states. This...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2018 | Fall 2018 Issue
by Gianna Gayle Herrera Amul and Tikki Pang The revised IHR and the capacities to implement them are critical for global health security. However, there is a dearth of literature about regional initiatives that support strengthening capacities for IHR implementation....
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2018 | Fall 2018 Issue
by Lauryn Garrett, Arwen Barr, Sowmya Kadandale, and Robert Marten By design, Sustainable Development Goal Three is unachievable by the health sector alone; instead, it requires coordinated effort harnessing commitment and action across sectors. As one of the most...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2018 | Fall 2018 Issue
by Eduardo J. Gómez This article seeks to explore the utility of integrating institutional change theory with network and power theory in the social sciences in order to provide a fuller account of international health agency capacity to meet domestic healthcare...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2018 | Fall 2018 Issue
by Mark Eccleston-Turner, Scarlett McArdle and Ross Upshur The global health landscape is characterized by a multitude of actors, including nation states, international organizations and non-governmental organizations, all of which play substantial roles in addressing...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2018 | Fall 2018 Issue
by Kermit L. Jones and Payal K. Patel In 1847, the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis determined that reasonable hand sanitation measures dramatically decreased infectious disease1 transmission and death in a European maternity ward. His discovery was so well...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Conflict, GFATM, Human Rights, IASC, International Law, LGBT, OHCHR, Pandemic Response, Recent Issue, Spring 2018, Trade, TSMOs, World Bank, World Health Organization
by Benjamin Mason Meier, Hanna Huffstetler and Lawrence O. Gostin Human rights frame global health governance. In codifying a normative foundation for global governance in the aftermath of World War II, states came together under the auspices of an emergent United...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Conflict, Human Rights, Spring 2018, World Health Organization
by Leonard S. Rubenstein A decade ago, when I was researching attacks on health workers and facilities over the preceding decades, I was struck by the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) was silent on violence against hospitals, patients, and health workers,...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, LGBT, Spring 2018
by Po-Han Lee In May 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariat produced its first-ever report regarding health issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in preparation for an agenda item of the 2013 WHO Executive Board (EB)...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, ICESCR, Pandemic Response, Spring 2018, World Health Organization
by Mark Eccleston-Turner Developing states lack access to pandemic influenza vaccines. The provision of ‘essential’ medicines is a core, non-derogable obligation of the right to health in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR),...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, IASC, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Spring 2018
by Sara Davis, Doris Schopper and Julia Epps Sexual violence in conflict settings is recognized as a war crime, constituting a grave violation of human rights. This article compares and contrasts sexual violence intervention monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, OHCHR, Spring 2018
by Gillian MacNaughton Since 1994, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has taken a lead role in promoting human rights around the globe. This article examines the work of the OHCHR on the right to health. Based on the annual reports of the...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, Spring 2018, TSMOs
by Samantha Plummer, Jackie Smith and Melanie Hughes Transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) played a critical role in integrating human rights into the policies and programs of the United Nations, including in health governance. In this article, we...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | GFATM, Human Rights, Spring 2018
by Sharifah Sekalala and Toni Haastrup New Global Health initiatives, such as the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunisations (GAVI), UNITAID, Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and...