by ghgovernance | Jun 16, 2014 | Fall 2013 Issue, Governance, International Health Regulations
Kathy Moscou, Jillian Clare Kohler, and Joel Lexchin Pharmacovigilance in low and lower middle-income countries has not been commensurate with increasing access to medicines, despite growing recognition that it is important to health outcomes. Pharmacovigilance is...
by ghgovernance | Jun 16, 2014 | Fall 2013 Issue, Governance, Health Technology, Human Resources for Health, International Health Regulations
James Thomas, Karen Hardee, Andee Parks, David Boone, Win Brown, Sara Pacquée-Margolis, and Ronald Tran Ba Huy Development in global health is addressed by a complex array of institutions working as “global action networks” (GANs). Network theory suggests a fluidity...
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 | Jun 22, 2012 | Global Health Diplomacy, International Health Regulations, Noncommunicable Diseases, Spring 2012, UNICEF, United Nations, World Health Organization
A WHO-UNICEF Global Code of Practice on the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Beverages to Children Allyn L. Taylor, Ibadat S. Dhillon, Lenias Hwenda The High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2012 | Global Health Diplomacy, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Security, Health Technology, HIV/AIDS, International Health Regulations, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, World Health Organization
25 by 25: The New 3 by 5? Derek Yach, Larry Gostin & Devi Sridhar, Contributing Bloggers Devi Sridhar is Lecturer in Global Health Politics at Oxford University. Lawrence O. Gostin is Professor of Law at Georgetown University, Faculty Director of the O’Neill...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | International Health Regulations, Pandemic Response
The Revised International Health Regulations: A Framework for Global Pandemic Response Rebecca Katz and Julie Fischer The 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak tested the revised International Health Regulations [IHR (2005)] robustly for the first time. The IHR (2005)...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | International Health Regulations, International Law, Sub-Saharan Africa
Is There an International Duty to Protect Persons in the Event of an Epidemic? Sara E. Davies In 2006, the International Law Commission began a study into the role of states and international organizations in protecting persons in the event of a disaster. Special...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2007 | Fall 2007, International Health Regulations
Sound Science and the New International Health Regulations Jonathan E. Suk The new International Health Regulations (IHR) entered into effect in June 2007. In order to ensure cooperation and avoid disputes between WHO member states, the new IHR have “sound science”...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2007 | Human Rights, International Health Regulations
XDR Tuberculosis, the New International Health Regulations, and Human Rights
Philippe Calain and David P. Fidler Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is the latest emerging disease recognized as a global health threat. It has so far been identified in at...