by ghgovernance | Sep 26, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. These days we’ve been used to China being the land of “the first,” “the largest” and “the highest.” However, not all of these...
by ghgovernance | Sep 25, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog
Joshua Busby, Contributing Blogger Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin This is a cross-post with Joshua Busby’s blog on “The Duck of Minerva.” So, in the interests of shameless self-promotion, I just wanted to mention that if you are...
by ghgovernance | Aug 29, 2013 | Asia, Climate Change, Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
Cecilia Zvosec, Young Voice Blogger MPH Candidate, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health MIA Candidate, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Twenty years of scientific research has warned of the impact greenhouse gas (GHG)...
by ghgovernance | Jul 24, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Uncategorized
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. There is a Chinese saying, Yi Ye Zhi Qiu, which means “Knowing that autumn is coming by seeing a single leaf fall.” This...
by ghgovernance | Jul 19, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
Anand Bhopal, Young Voices Blogger 5th Year Medical Student, University of Manchester The World Health Organisation was established in 1948 under the auspices of the United Nations. The post-war era was a time of great optimism and the visionary WHO constitution...
by ghgovernance | Jul 15, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, World Health Organization
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. Being an incorrigible tea drinker and a big fan of Chinese herbal products, I was disheartened by two reports released by...
by ghgovernance | Jun 5, 2013 | Community Health, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Technology
Jane Cohen, Contributing Blogger Researcher, Human Rights Watch This article is a crosspost with the Huffington Post, at the author’s permission. For Abigail Chombo in Zimbabwe, World Environment Day will pass like any other; a day with no safe water to drink, a...
by ghgovernance | Jun 3, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog
Lenias Hwenda, Ph.D., Contributing Blogger Access to Medicine Foundation Independent Expert Advisor on Global Health and Access to Medicine Wealthy and poor countries alike face a growing incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). NCD-related mortality is...
by ghgovernance | May 28, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, Health Systems, Health Technology, World Health Organization
The Survival of “Global Health” – Part Four: The New Global Health Architecture Does Not Match Its Emerging Mission By Laurie Garrett, Guest Blogger Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a co-post with Laurie Garrett’s...
by ghgovernance | May 12, 2013 | Book Review, Global Health Governance Blog
Markus Fraundorfer, Contributing Blogger Ph.D. Candidate, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Book Review: Jonathan Wolff, The Human Right to Health, New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. 192 pp. Hardcover: $23.95. ISBN 978-0-393-06335-6....
by ghgovernance | Apr 26, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog
Lenias Hwenda, Ph.D., Contributing Blogger Access to Medicine Foundation Independent Expert Advisor on Global Health and Access to Medicine Harald Siem, M.D., Contributing Blogger Senior Adviser, Norwegian Directorate of Health According to a study reported in The...
by ghgovernance | Apr 3, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Diplomacy, Global Health Governance Blog, Noncommunicable Diseases
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. It’s been a busy week for global health. With the Indian Supreme Court’s landmark decision to dismiss Novartis AG’s attempt to...
by ghgovernance | Apr 3, 2013 | Asia, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Global Health Governance Blog, Pandemic Response
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. China has long been perceived as the epicenter of major infectious disease outbreaks. The 2003 SARS crisis was the most recent...
by ghgovernance | Mar 22, 2013 | Asia, Community Health, Global Health Governance Blog
Jay T. Chittooran, Guest Blogger Research Associate, Council on Foreign Relations As it’s been reported here and elsewhere, air pollution is quite literally the cause of many headaches in China. The smog is at historic and alarming levels, and there’s no respite in...
by ghgovernance | Feb 4, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, Health Security, Human Security, Noncommunicable Diseases, Pandemic Response, World Bank, World Health Organization
Ten Years after SARS: Five Myths to Unravel Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. Last week, I was in Beijing for an international conference while the...
by ghgovernance | Jan 31, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, HIV/AIDS, Latin America, Uncategorized, World Health Organization
Understanding the Geopolitics of Epidemics: How Brazil Outpaced the other BRICS in Response Eduardo J. Gómez, Contributing Blogger Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy & Administration at Rutgers University Despite their similar geopolitical interests...
