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 | 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 | 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,...
by ghgovernance | Feb 6, 2013 | Asia, Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Health Security, Health Systems, Human Rights, Human Security
Human Security and Health in Singapore: Going Beyond a Fortress Mentality Lee Koh and Simon Barraclough Singapore has achieved high levels of human security, overcoming the socio-economic instability and poverty of its early days of independence in the mid 1960s. It...
by ghgovernance | Feb 4, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, Health Security, Human Security, Noncommunicable Diseases, Pandemic Response, World Bank, World Health Organization
Ten Years after SARS: Five Myths to Unravel Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. Last week, I was in Beijing for an international conference while the...
by ghgovernance | Jan 28, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Security
Presidential Inbox: Integrating Global Health Into the Pivot Strategy Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. Mr. President, as you begin your second term, you and...
by ghgovernance | Dec 31, 2012 | Complete Issues, Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Human Security, Most Recent Issue
Special Issue: Human Security and Health Guest Editors: Jack C. Chow, Susan Hubbard and Keiko Watanabe Opening Commentaries Provoking a New Agenda for Global Human Security Jack C. Chow Health and Human Security Susan Hubbard and Keiko Watanabe Articles Human...
by ghgovernance | Dec 31, 2012 | Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Human Security, Most Recent Issue
The Military Sector’s Role in Global Health- Historical Context and Future Direction Derek Licina The military sector’s role in global health has gained visibility in recent years following its disaster responses to the South Asian Tsunami of 2004 and the earthquake...
by ghgovernance | Dec 31, 2012 | Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Human Security, Most Recent Issue
Framing Child Nutrition in Developing Countries: A Human Security Perspective Raghavendra Madhu and Denese M. Neu Child deaths due to the insidious malnutrition epidemic are a seminal challenge to human security in low and middle-income countries. In addition to...
by ghgovernance | Dec 31, 2012 | Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Health Systems, Human Security, Most Recent Issue
Human Security, Multi-polarity, and Development Assistance for Health Karthik Nachiappan Development assistance for health (DAH) constitutes a critical vehicle of collective action in global health, one that has seen the rise and involvement of emerging powers like...
by ghgovernance | Dec 31, 2012 | Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Human Security
Nodding Syndrome in Post Conflict Northern Uganda- A Human Security Perspective Paul Bukuluki, Ismail Ddumba-Nyanzi, John David Kisuule, Emilio Ovuga, Lars Lien, and David Kaawa-Mafigiri “When you go to the family with nodding syndrome (NS) you will see that there is...
by ghgovernance | Dec 31, 2012 | Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Health Security, Human Rights, Human Security
Human Rights and Global Health Funding- What Contribution Can the Right to Health Make to Sustaining and Extending International Assistance for Health Lisa Forman, Donald C. Cole, Gorik Ooms, and Merrick Zwarenstein Global health funding has experienced dramatic...
by ghgovernance | Dec 31, 2012 | Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Human Security, Most Recent Issue, World Health Organization
The World Health Organization Engaging with Civil Society Networks to Promote Primary Health Care: A Case Study Claire Dickerson, Nathan Grills, Nick Henwood, Susannah Jeffreys, and Ted Lankester Engagement between the World Health Organization (WHO) and civil society...
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 | Jul 10, 2012 | Book Review, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Global Health Diplomacy, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Security, United Nations
Peter Piot’s Memoir on Infectious Disease Joshua Busby, Contributing Blogger Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin This is a cross-post with Joshua Busby’s blog on “The Duck of Minerva.” I just finished reading Peter Piot’s...
by ghgovernance | Jun 22, 2012 | Health Security, Health Systems, Pandemic Response, Spring 2012
Sustainability of Sub-Regional Disease Surveillance Networks Melinda Moore, David J. Dausey, Bounlay Phommasack, Sok Touch, Lu Guoping, Soe Lwin Nyein, Kumnuan Ungchusak, Nguyen Dang Vung, and Moe Ko Oo Sub-regional disease surveillance networks are an emerging trend...