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 | Jun 21, 2011 | Asia, Pandemic Response
Epidemics as Politics with Case Studies from Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam Tuong Vu Severe epidemics caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza viruses have recently killed hundreds of people while causing chaos and panic in many...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Asia, North America
Confronting Global Pandemics: Lessons from China and the U.S. Rachel D. Schwartz and Jonathan Schwartz The 2003 outbreak of SARS and its subsequent spread raised awareness about the global threat of emerging infectious diseases. The Chinese response to this disease,...
