by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Feature Stories, Recent Issue, Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
VOLUME X, NO. 1 SPECIAL ISSUE (SPRING 2016) TABLE OF CONTENTS EBOLA: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE Full Text INTRODUCTION: EBOLA: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE Joshua Busby, Karen A. Grépin and Jeremy Youde COMMENTARY: NORMS WON’T SAVE YOU:...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Current Issue, Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Alexandra Kaasch The Ebola outbreak has led numerous global policy actors to call for strengthening health systems. This article discusses these developments employing a global social policy approach. The article shows the contributions by major global social...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Jessica Flannery, Gabriel Seidman, Yadira Almodovar-Diaz, Usman Munir, Nurah Alamro and Suerie Moon The Ebola outbreak that began in late 2013 in West Africa resulted in 28,637 cases and 11,315 deaths as of January 3, 2016, according to the World Health...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Rosalind McCollum and Miriam Taegtmeyer The Ebola epidemic in West Africa resulted in calls for universal health coverage and revision of global health governance for emergency response. This political economy analysis identifies structural reasons why Sierra...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Maryam Deloffre United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2177 (2014) was politically salient because it labeled the Ebola crisis as a threat to international peace and security and created UNMEER, the first-ever UN system-wide emergency health mission....
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Charles Clift The World Health Organization’s (WHO) programme of reform, begun in 2010, did not prevent the WHO from failing in getting to grips with the Ebola outbreak in 2014. At the root of its problems in fighting Ebola was the dysfunctionality inherent in its...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Tim Mackey Liberia is a country that has arguably borne the largest brunt of the 2014 Ebola Virus disease (EVD) outbreak, with the highest number of fatalities of all countries since the outbreak began in late March 2014. Though significant progress has been made...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Andrew Price-Smith and Jackson Porreca In March 2014 an 18 month-old boy died of the Ebola Zaire virus in the town of Meliandou, Guinea, near the porous borders of Sierra Leone and Liberia. The virus would soon spread inexorably throughout these three nations,...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Sophie Harman If the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone tells us anything about global health politics, it is that there is a distinct difference between normatively agreeing to act on an issue (in this case a public health emergency of...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
Guest Editors: Joshua Busby, Karen A. Grépin and Jeremy Youde In March 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) was officially notified about cases of the virus in Guinea, however, it was not until early August 2014 that the WHO declared the outbreak a Public...