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...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Recent Issue, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
VOLUME IX, NO. 1 2015 SPRING-FALL COMBINED ISSUE TABLE OF CONTENTS SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON GLOBAL HEALTH Full Issue INTRODUCTION: THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON GLOBAL HEALTH Lance Gable, Ames Dhai, Robert Marten, Benjamin Mason Meier, and Jennifer...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Emilie K. Aguirre The Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) represents a significant opportunity to realize the right to health globally. However, in order to succeed the FCGH must be carefully considered: it must take a new evidence-based approach that...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Belinda Bennett This paper considers the role for a Framework Convention on Global Health in addressing key challenges in women’s health at a global level. Part I analyses the conceptualization of health in terms of human rights and the linking of women’s rights...
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...
