by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Book Review, HIV/AIDS, Pandemic Response
Review of Virus Alert: Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic by Stefan Elbe. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 224 pp. Hardcover: $45.00, ISBN: 978-0-231-14868-9 Reviewed by Marina Karbowski The beginning of the 21st century is marked by the...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Pandemic Response
Control of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDRTB): A Root Cause Analysis Jennifer Prah Ruger The threat of global infectious agents has the potential to cripple national and global economies, as the outbreaks of SARS, Avian Flu, H1N1, and XDR-TB have...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Pandemic Response
H1N1 Returns, Again: The Globalization, Re-Conceptualization and Vaccination of “Swine Flu” James Ricci With the emergence of H1N1 in April 2009 and the subsequent declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organization, infectious diseases have once again taken a...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Pandemic Response
Governance Implications of Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance and Response as Global Public Goods Joshua Michaud Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are a continuing and serious threat to global health and welfare, but worldwide, country-level disease...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Pandemic Response
Look But Don’t Touch: Overemphasis on Surveillance in Analysis of Outbreak Response Frank L. Smith Most literature about global health governance assumes that surveillance is the most important public health function during pandemics and other transnational outbreaks....
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Asia, Global Health Diplomacy, Pandemic Response
Indonesia, H5N1, and Global Health Diplomacy Rachel Irwin The World Health Organization (WHO) is mandated to be the United Nations specialized agency for health. However, in light of changing disease trends, the increased “globalization” of health, and the entry of...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | International Health Regulations, Pandemic Response
The Revised International Health Regulations: A Framework for Global Pandemic Response Rebecca Katz and Julie Fischer The 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak tested the revised International Health Regulations [IHR (2005)] robustly for the first time. The IHR (2005)...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | Pandemic Response
Introduction: Tackling Pandemics as a Governance Challenge Jeremy Youde Writing in Foreign Affairs in 2007, Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota warned: No one can predict when the next pandemic will occur or how severe it will be. But it will occur for...
