by ghgovernance | May 18, 2014 | Donor Assistance/Aid, Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Tuberculosis
By Tara Ornstein (TREAT TB Technical Officer at The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease) Twenty years after the World Health Organization declared tuberculosis (TB) a global public health emergency, one-third of the world’s population is infected...
by ghgovernance | May 15, 2014 | Current Openings in Global Health, Global Health Governance Blog
This Summer, HarvardX will be offering a course entitled “Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety,” starting on June 2nd. The course, ph555x, will be Directed by Ashish Jha of the Harvard School of Public Health. The course is free and will...
by ghgovernance | May 7, 2014 | Asia, Emerging Powers, Global Health Governance Blog, Uncategorized, Young Voices
by Raghavendra Madhu (Health Governance and Policy Practicioner) and Lalit Yadav (Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health) With the general elections 2014 in full swing in the world’s largest democracy, it is interesting to see the proposition of...
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 | Apr 22, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog
By Tara Ornstein, Contributing Blogger The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has documented an urgent need for support to several African countries who are updating their surveillance and contingency plans for avian influenza A (H7N9). H7N9...
by ghgovernance | Mar 23, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, World Health Organization
By Tara Ornstein, Independent Global Health Researcher Since September 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed 198 cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), which include 84 deaths. The majority of cases have been reported in...
by ghgovernance | Mar 21, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Uncategorized
By Jane Cohen and Amanda Klasing Cross-posted from Human Rights Watch’s Dispatches If you are reading this, it’s not likely you will be one of the 2.5 billion people looking for a place to defecate outdoors. Or one of the hundreds of millions of mostly women...
by ghgovernance | Mar 20, 2014 | Global Health Diplomacy, Global Health Governance Blog, United Nations
Courtney M. Page and Yanzhong Huang The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set forth by the United Nations (UN) in 2000. At that time, nations around the world agreed to take action and reach target goals by 2015 to reduce poverty and improve health, education,...
by ghgovernance | Feb 6, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Health Systems, Health Technology, Young Voices
Vlad Boscor, Young Voices Blogger Globalization inevitably has its global winners and losers, and nowhere are they more apparent than in the healthcare sector. Developed countries have a huge advantage in healthcare access, modernity of treatment and diagnosis, and...
by ghgovernance | Jan 30, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Health Systems, Human Resources for Health
Noreen M. Sugrue Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Health and Policy Initiatives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Skilled labor migration means more than the loss of individual workers, it means the loss – predominantly from poor countries – of...
by ghgovernance | Jan 16, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, International Health Regulations, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, International Law, Uncategorized
By Tara Ornstein, Independent Global Health Researcher Although on December 18, 2013, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirmed the deaths of 2,360 migrants in 2013, they indicated that the actual number was much higher. IOM Director General William...
by ghgovernance | Jan 14, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, North America, Young Voices
Peter Maslanka, Young Voices Blogger In March 2013 the U.S. spent a staggering $463 million for 2 million new smallpox doses in defense of a potential bioterrorist attack. This new drug, Arestyvr, made by New York-based Siga Technologies, is an antiviral pill that...
by ghgovernance | Dec 10, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
Laurel Stone, Young Voices Blogger In the past month, international media compiled devastating pictures from the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. Humanitarian aid agencies and even the US military are scrambling to help the country stabilize by...
by ghgovernance | Oct 21, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
Courtney M. Page, Young Voices Blogger Global Health Governance Research Intern, Council on Foreign Relations Two weeks ago, JPMorgan Chase and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation rolled out the Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF). The GHIF has been hailed...
by ghgovernance | Sep 30, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. One month ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) quietly lifted the ban on processed poultry imports from China. This...