by ghgovernance | Feb 26, 2017 | Global Health Governance Blog
By Tikki Pang and Gianna Gayle Herrera Amul at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore photo credit: Logo of the World Health Organization via photopin As the process to elect a new Director General (DG) for the...
by ghgovernance | Jan 19, 2016 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Security
By Patrick Jarkowsky, Young Voices Blog Seventy years ago, on December 11, 1945, Sir Alexander Fleming, Sir Howard Walter Florey, and Ernest Boris Chain shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect...
by ghgovernance | Oct 30, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance
By Gail Thornton In the opening chapter of his newly published book, The Peculiar Dynamics of Corruption, Dr. Omer Gokcekus, a pioneer in global research on corruption, shares a Turkish proverb that says a “fish stinks first at the head,” referring to the origin of...
by ghgovernance | Oct 22, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Uncategorized
By Anna Guryanova, Young Voices Blog Multinational corporations and global research institutes restlessly seek to excel their methods of data analysis and gathering by creating leading and innovative strategies in science and technology. In recent times, such...
by ghgovernance | Aug 22, 2015 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Uncategorized
Blog by Yanzhong Huang, Editor of Global Health Governance and Senior Fellow for Global Health photo credit: Chinese flag in Shanghai via pixabay Despite higher government spending, public hospitals remain a hindrance to genuine healthcare reform in China, says...
by ghgovernance | Jun 11, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Uncategorized
By Tara Ornstein, Contributing Blogger The rabies virus is one of the most deadly viruses affecting both human and animal populations today. Every year, there are 60,000 deaths attributed to rabies, but global health experts believe that the actual number of...
by ghgovernance | Apr 21, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Pandemic Response
Blog by Sara Gorman, PhD, is an MPH candidate at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health photo credit: Logo of the World Health Organization via photopin There is a lot of talk about global health governance these days, especially in the wake of the Ebola...
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 | 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...
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 | Jun 26, 2014 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Maternal Health
By Yanzhong Huang For those who were born in the Chinese countryside in the 1970s, the story of my birth—as my mother used to tell me—is not atypical. When the labor pains began, my mom sent my siblings to the local midwife asking her to come and deliver the baby at...
by ghgovernance | Jun 26, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Health Security, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations
By Gail S. Thornton, founder of Worldview Communications, and member of the Board of Overseers, Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations. Rare and orphan diseases are disabling medical conditions which affect nearly 30 million Americans,...