by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Oriana Ramirez-Rubio and Gonzalo Fanjul The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a new opportunity to propel Europe’s role in the fulfillment of global health aspirations, such as ending preventable diseases and achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However,...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Donald C Cole, Suzanne Jackson and Lisa Forman Schools of Public Health (SPH) have been integral to public health system development at different jurisdictional levels, including global. With different histories, they have adapted to the shifting landscape of...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Ashley M. Fox The past decade has been characterized by a dramatic scale-up of development assistance for health, which has raised questions about who is responsible for health, how to hold non-state actors accountable for their activities and whether development...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Mari Grepstad and Berit Sofie Hembre The climate change discourse holds that burning of fossil fuels leads to climate change. Therefore, emissions must be reduced in order to avoid climate change. Further, it holds that climate change deteriorates global public...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Recent Issue, Reform of the World Health Organization
Volume XI, No. 1 Reform of the World Health Organization Guest Editors: Tine Hanrieder and Adam Kamradt-Scott Introduction: Same, same but different: Reforming the World Health Organization in an age of public scrutiny and global complexity Tine Hanrieder and...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Tine Hanrieder and Adam Kamradt-Scott As the World Health Organization (WHO) enters its 70th year of existence, a new director-general assumes the helm of the intergovernmental organization for their next five-year term of office. The election process for the WHO’s...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Catherine Z. Worsnop One aim of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 is to discourage the use of overly restrictive barriers because these measures incentivize outbreak concealment and undermine outbreak response...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Mark Eccleston-Turner and Scarlett McArdle Recently the World Health Organization (henceforward WHO) has received significant criticism for its choice of action, as well as on occasion its inaction, with much of this criticism focusing on the role the Organization...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Julian Eckl The paper argues the working methods of the World Health Assembly (WHA) have been a recurrent object of reform discussions and that the vision that WHAs should become shorter has been a constant driver for them. It shows also how the vision of shorter...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Lawrence O. Gostin The United Nations created the World Health Organization (WHO) as its first specialized agency in 1948. This was a time of enormous promise for the world, coming as it did after the horrors of World War II. What is striking about the post-war...
by ghgovernance | Feb 26, 2017 | Global Health Governance Blog
By Tikki Pang and Gianna Gayle Herrera Amul at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore photo credit: Logo of the World Health Organization via photopin As the process to elect a new Director General (DG) for the...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Feature Stories, Recent Issue, Winter 2016
Special Issue: Political Science in Global Health Volume X, No. 3 (Winter 2016) Special Guest Editor: Eduardo J. Gómez, King’s College London Full Text Introduction: The State of Political Science Research in Global Health Politics and Policy Eduardo J. Gómez Ideas...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Eduardo J. Gómez Over the past two decades, the study of the politics of global health has become an increasingly popular and important scholarly topic. A host of social scientists, public health researchers, medical scientists and historians have taken an interest...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Daniel Béland and Valéry Ridde Contributing to this special issue of Global Health Governance on “Political Science in Global Health,” this exploratory article draws attention to the potential role of ideas in policy implementation, a topic that has been relatively...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Joshua W Busby and Ethan B Kapstein Framing is a central mechanism in the social movements literature. Human rights frames are thought to be an especially potent form of rhetorical communication because human rights are thought to trump other objectives. However,...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Simukai Chigudu In 2008, Zimbabwe was engulfed by a devastating cholera outbreak resulting in an unprecedented 98,000 cases and over 4,000 deaths. Cholera, however, was much more than a health crisis. The disease signified the nadir of Zimbabwe’s catastrophic...