by ghgovernance | Jan 14, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, North America, Young Voices
Peter Maslanka, Young Voices Blogger In March 2013 the U.S. spent a staggering $463 million for 2 million new smallpox doses in defense of a potential bioterrorist attack. This new drug, Arestyvr, made by New York-based Siga Technologies, is an antiviral pill that...
by ghgovernance | Mar 28, 2012 | Global Health Governance Blog, North America, Universal Health Coverage
The Affordable Care Act and Global Health David P. Fidler, GHG Contributing Blogger James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law Oral arguments this week before the U.S. Supreme Court about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have garnered...
by ghgovernance | Feb 27, 2012 | Global Health Governance Blog, North America, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Global Implications of the Contraception Kerfuffle 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.” Our readers are surely aware of...
by ghgovernance | Jan 9, 2012 | Donor Assistance/Aid, Global Health Governance Blog, North America
The 2012 Republican Primaries, American Conservatism, and Global Health David P. Fidler, Contributing Blogger James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law I imagine that, even among this blog’s readers, global health did not come to...
by ghgovernance | Nov 21, 2011 | Europe, North America, Pandemic Response
Multilevel Governance and Complex Threats: The Case of Pandemic Preparedness in the European Union and the United States Erik Brattberg and Mark Rhinard The scale of dangers...
by Tom McGee | Jun 21, 2011 | Armed Forces/Military, Health Security, North America
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the US military expanded its global health engagement as part of broader efforts to stabilize fragile states, formally designating “medical stability operations” as use of Department of Defense (DoD) medical assets to build or sustain indigenous health sector capacity. Medical stability operations have included medical assistance missions launched by US Africa Command and in other regions, deployment of hospital ships to deliver humanitarian assistance and build capacity, and health-related efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. The public health impact of such initiatives, and their effectiveness in promoting stability is unclear. Moreover, humanitarian actors have expressed concern about military encroachment on the “humanitarian space,” potentially endangering aid workers and populations in need, and violating core principles of humanitarian assistance. The DoD should draw on existing data to determine whether, and under what conditions, health engagement promotes stability overseas and develop a shared understanding with humanitarian actors of core principles to guide its global health engagement.
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Asia, North America
Confronting Global Pandemics: Lessons from China and the U.S. Rachel D. Schwartz and Jonathan Schwartz The 2003 outbreak of SARS and its subsequent spread raised awareness about the global threat of emerging infectious diseases. The Chinese response to this disease,...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Health Security, North America
The North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza: A Case Study of Regional Health Security in the 21st Century Donald Howard Avery In August 2007, the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States established the North American Plan for Avian &...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Health Systems, North America
The Application of Key Governance Tools to Understand How Common Health Services Administrations Function Jonathan Matusitz and Gerald-Mark Breen This research analysis aims to examine three particular tools of governance (that is – government insurance, social...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Donor Assistance/Aid, International Law, North America
Health Care Reform that Works for the U.S. and for the World’s Poor Thomas Pogge Some 18 million people die annually from poverty-related causes. Insofar as present global institutional arrangements foreseeably and avoidably perpetuate this death toll, affluent...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2008 | Latin America, Noncommunicable Diseases, North America, Spring 2008
Autism and Special Education Policy in Mexico John P. Tuman, Danielle Roth-Johnson, Dana Lee Baker, and Jennifer Vecchio In recent years, a great deal of scholarship has examined the adequacy of special education and other support services for children with...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2007 | Asia, Health Security, North America
Combating a Collective Threat: Prospects for Sino-American Cooperation Against Avian Influenza
Andrew Erickson This essay seeks to increase awareness among Western scholars, analysts, and policy makers concerning both the potential danger posed by an outbreak of...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2007 | Latin America, North America
Bureaucratizing Epidemics: The Challenge of Institutional Bias in the United States and Brazil” for Consistency Purpose
Eduardo J. Gómez This paper examines the politics of government response to health epidemics in the United States and Brazil. Using a global...