by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Florian Kastler The absence of a clear and committed choice of a host for the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) weakens the instrument. It sends a confused and uncertain message to the global health community. The World Health Organization (WHO) should...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Mara Pillinger Ensuring legal accountability for the right to health is among the core goals of a Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH). Current FCGH proposals promote legal accountability in innovative ways, including the extension of accountability for...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
Debra L. DeLaet This article delineates the limitations of international human rights law—including ambivalent language, loopholes, ill-defined state obligations, and a lack of concrete enforcement mechanisms—that have limited the effectiveness of international...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Sebastian Taylor A key issue for the proposed Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) is how to engage with the existing architecture of health governance.1 Central within this architecture are the International Health Regulations (IHR). Most recently...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Jalil Safaei Improving health and reducing health inequities is a chronic yet urgent global issue. In addition to appeals to humanity, social responsibility, distributive justice and human rights as powerful normative perspectives that unite and guide efforts for...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Anuj Kapilashrami, Suzanne Fustukian, Barbara McPake The Framework Convention on Global Health comes amid wider recognition of health inequalities and several recent calls for greater democratization of the world order. The framework suggests wider consensus on...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Sharifah Rahma Sekalala The proposed Framework Convention on Global Health envisages the imposition of a binding obligation on developed countries to assist developing countries in their quest to achieve the right to health for all their citizens. Looking at the...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Lance Gable, Ames Dhai, Robert Marten, Benjamin Mason Meier, and Jennifer Prah Ruger Global health governance continues to be a complex and challenging undertaking. A remarkably complicated patchwork of institutions at the international, national, and local levels...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Brigit Toebes The proposed Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) is an important initiative that has the potential to place global health inequities more firmly on the international agenda. Ideally, it will become an instrument implemented by law and policy...
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...
