by ghgovernance | Oct 30, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance
By Gail Thornton In the opening chapter of his newly published book, The Peculiar Dynamics of Corruption, Dr. Omer Gokcekus, a pioneer in global research on corruption, shares a Turkish proverb that says a “fish stinks first at the head,” referring to the origin of...
by ghgovernance | Oct 22, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Uncategorized
By Anna Guryanova, Young Voices Blog Multinational corporations and global research institutes restlessly seek to excel their methods of data analysis and gathering by creating leading and innovative strategies in science and technology. In recent times, such...
by ghgovernance | Aug 22, 2015 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Uncategorized
Blog by Yanzhong Huang, Editor of Global Health Governance and Senior Fellow for Global Health photo credit: Chinese flag in Shanghai via pixabay Despite higher government spending, public hospitals remain a hindrance to genuine healthcare reform in China, says...
by ghgovernance | Apr 21, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Pandemic Response
Blog by Sara Gorman, PhD, is an MPH candidate at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health photo credit: Logo of the World Health Organization via photopin There is a lot of talk about global health governance these days, especially in the wake of the Ebola...
by ghgovernance | Dec 22, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Maternal Health, United Nations, Young Voices
By Tara Ornstein September 2015 will mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration, a landmark convention on women’s rights. Over the last two months, UN member states and civil society organizations have accelerated their review of the progress...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Complete Issues, Governance, Spring-Autumn 2014
Eduardo J. Gomez The emerging nations of Brazil, China, and India are currently facing the costly epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes. While similar in their pursuit of world prominence, these nations nevertheless varied in the timing and depth of their policy...
by ghgovernance | Jul 17, 2014 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Governance
Yanzhong Huang, Editor of the Global Health Governance Journal and Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations Six years ago today, sixteen infants in China’s Gansu Province were diagnosed with kidney stones. All of them had been fed milk powder that...
by ghgovernance | Jul 1, 2014 | Asia, Governance, Transnational Campaigns
By Susan Hubbard, Senior Associate at the Japan Center for International Exchange In the spirit of the current World Cup mania, I am reminded of the historic decision that Korea and Japan made to combine their competing bids to host the 2005 World Cup. By doing so,...
by ghgovernance | Jun 26, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Health Security, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations
By Gail S. Thornton, founder of Worldview Communications, and member of the Board of Overseers, Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations. Rare and orphan diseases are disabling medical conditions which affect nearly 30 million Americans,...
by ghgovernance | Jun 16, 2014 | Fall 2013 Issue, Governance
Sophie Harman and Simon Rushton Rhetoric around the need for more and better leadership is ubiquitous in contemporary global health governance, yet there has been little articulation of what type of leadership is required, who might play leadership roles, and in...
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 | 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 | Jun 22, 2012 | Donor Assistance/Aid, Governance, HIV/AIDS, Spring 2012
Regional HIV-AIDS Work- An Added Value Peris S. Jones and Siri B. Hellevik Regional level responses to HIV/AIDS have become increasingly in vogue. Beyond the symbolism and established truisms associated with regional integration, however, much less is known about the...
by ghgovernance | Jun 22, 2012 | Asia, Global Health Diplomacy, Governance, Health Security, Spring 2012
Regional Health Meetings in the Pacific and their Impact on Health Governance Joel Negin, Chris Morgan, and Rob Condon As a result of the increased number of regional health meetings in the Pacific region, senior health professionals in the Pacific have expressed...