by ghgovernance | Jun 16, 2014 | Fall 2013 Issue
Tess van der Rijt and Tikki Pang Many health issues are transnational in nature and cannot be contained within national borders. Global health is therefore an area of study and research that should involve the collective opinions and ideas of diverse global health...
by ghgovernance | Jun 16, 2014 | Fall 2013 Issue, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, Pandemic Response
Asif B. Farooq and Shannon E. Majowicz This paper argues that emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) remain a threat-focused security issue as the relative success of recent international responses do not fully reflect our current readiness for EID...
by ghgovernance | Jun 16, 2014 | Fall 2013 Issue, Governance, International Health Regulations
Kathy Moscou, Jillian Clare Kohler, and Joel Lexchin Pharmacovigilance in low and lower middle-income countries has not been commensurate with increasing access to medicines, despite growing recognition that it is important to health outcomes. Pharmacovigilance is...
by ghgovernance | Jun 16, 2014 | Fall 2013 Issue, Governance, Health Technology, Human Resources for Health, International Health Regulations
James Thomas, Karen Hardee, Andee Parks, David Boone, Win Brown, Sara Pacquée-Margolis, and Ronald Tran Ba Huy Development in global health is addressed by a complex array of institutions working as “global action networks” (GANs). Network theory suggests a fluidity...
by ghgovernance | Jun 16, 2014 | Fall 2013 Issue, Governance, Human Rights, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, International Law
Jane Galvão, PhD This commentary describes efforts to address sexual violence, especially in situations of armed conflict, and bringing attention to this issue in connection with the Post-2015 United Nations (UN) Development Agenda.1 Analysis on sexual violence during...
by ghgovernance | Jun 16, 2014 | Fall 2013 Issue
Sirina Keesara, Robert Tessler, Kris Coontz, Carissa Chu, and Chris Stewart As the field of global health grows, the network of stakeholders and the influences on program development become more complex. Future leaders need to be prepared with skills to navigate and...
by ghgovernance | May 18, 2014 | Donor Assistance/Aid, Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Tuberculosis
By Tara Ornstein (TREAT TB Technical Officer at The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease) Twenty years after the World Health Organization declared tuberculosis (TB) a global public health emergency, one-third of the world’s population is infected...
by ghgovernance | May 15, 2014 | Current Openings in Global Health, Global Health Governance Blog
This Summer, HarvardX will be offering a course entitled “Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety,” starting on June 2nd. The course, ph555x, will be Directed by Ashish Jha of the Harvard School of Public Health. The course is free and will...
by ghgovernance | May 7, 2014 | Asia, Emerging Powers, Global Health Governance Blog, Uncategorized, Young Voices
by Raghavendra Madhu (Health Governance and Policy Practicioner) and Lalit Yadav (Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health) With the general elections 2014 in full swing in the world’s largest democracy, it is interesting to see the proposition of...
by ghgovernance | May 5, 2014 | Community Health, Global Health Governance Blog, Universal Health Coverage
Jay Chittooran, Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations The global support for universal health coverage (UHC) is wide-ranging. But on top of the potentially troubling role of domestic and global politics that has been previously examined, another large...
by ghgovernance | Apr 30, 2014 | Asia, Community Health, Industry, Young Voices
By Jeanifer Uwaechie, Rutgers University in New Brunswick It is no longer news that the Chinese economy has made great strides in recent years. In the past 10 years in particular, China has achieved what developed countries did in several decades or even centuries....
by ghgovernance | Apr 22, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog
By Tara Ornstein, Contributing Blogger The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has documented an urgent need for support to several African countries who are updating their surveillance and contingency plans for avian influenza A (H7N9). H7N9...
by ghgovernance | Mar 23, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, World Health Organization
By Tara Ornstein, Independent Global Health Researcher Since September 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed 198 cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), which include 84 deaths. The majority of cases have been reported in...
by ghgovernance | Mar 21, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Uncategorized
By Jane Cohen and Amanda Klasing Cross-posted from Human Rights Watch’s Dispatches If you are reading this, it’s not likely you will be one of the 2.5 billion people looking for a place to defecate outdoors. Or one of the hundreds of millions of mostly women...
by ghgovernance | Mar 20, 2014 | Global Health Diplomacy, Global Health Governance Blog, United Nations
Courtney M. Page and Yanzhong Huang The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set forth by the United Nations (UN) in 2000. At that time, nations around the world agreed to take action and reach target goals by 2015 to reduce poverty and improve health, education,...
by ghgovernance | Feb 6, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Health Systems, Health Technology, Young Voices
Vlad Boscor, Young Voices Blogger Globalization inevitably has its global winners and losers, and nowhere are they more apparent than in the healthcare sector. Developed countries have a huge advantage in healthcare access, modernity of treatment and diagnosis, and...
