by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Feature Stories, Recent Issue, Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
VOLUME X, NO. 1 SPECIAL ISSUE (SPRING 2016) TABLE OF CONTENTS EBOLA: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE Full Text INTRODUCTION: EBOLA: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE Joshua Busby, Karen A. Grépin and Jeremy Youde COMMENTARY: NORMS WON’T SAVE YOU:...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Current Issue, Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Alexandra Kaasch The Ebola outbreak has led numerous global policy actors to call for strengthening health systems. This article discusses these developments employing a global social policy approach. The article shows the contributions by major global social...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Jessica Flannery, Gabriel Seidman, Yadira Almodovar-Diaz, Usman Munir, Nurah Alamro and Suerie Moon The Ebola outbreak that began in late 2013 in West Africa resulted in 28,637 cases and 11,315 deaths as of January 3, 2016, according to the World Health...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Rosalind McCollum and Miriam Taegtmeyer The Ebola epidemic in West Africa resulted in calls for universal health coverage and revision of global health governance for emergency response. This political economy analysis identifies structural reasons why Sierra...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Maryam Deloffre United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2177 (2014) was politically salient because it labeled the Ebola crisis as a threat to international peace and security and created UNMEER, the first-ever UN system-wide emergency health mission....
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Charles Clift The World Health Organization’s (WHO) programme of reform, begun in 2010, did not prevent the WHO from failing in getting to grips with the Ebola outbreak in 2014. At the root of its problems in fighting Ebola was the dysfunctionality inherent in its...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Tim Mackey Liberia is a country that has arguably borne the largest brunt of the 2014 Ebola Virus disease (EVD) outbreak, with the highest number of fatalities of all countries since the outbreak began in late March 2014. Though significant progress has been made...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Andrew Price-Smith and Jackson Porreca In March 2014 an 18 month-old boy died of the Ebola Zaire virus in the town of Meliandou, Guinea, near the porous borders of Sierra Leone and Liberia. The virus would soon spread inexorably throughout these three nations,...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
By Sophie Harman If the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone tells us anything about global health politics, it is that there is a distinct difference between normatively agreeing to act on an issue (in this case a public health emergency of...
by ghgovernance | Apr 25, 2016 | Special Issue: Ebola: Implications For Global Health Governance
Guest Editors: Joshua Busby, Karen A. Grépin and Jeremy Youde In March 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) was officially notified about cases of the virus in Guinea, however, it was not until early August 2014 that the WHO declared the outbreak a Public...
by ghgovernance | Sep 17, 2013 | Complete Issues, Summer 2013
Tess van der Rijt and Tikki Pang WHO has been guilty of complacency and taking its unassailable leadership role in global health for granted. The WHO’s governing bodies are currently engaged in a programme of reform in an attempt to resuscitate the lethargic and...
by ghgovernance | Sep 17, 2013 | Complete Issues, Summer 2013
Matthew Hoisington This article argues for a “living, breathing” Global Health Governance Constitution, which would be initiated by a World Health Governance Forum (“Forum”) convened by the World Health Organization (WHO). The content of the new constitution would...
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 | Jan 25, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, Health Systems, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, Uncategorized, World Health Organization
Can (MICs) governments make the global R&D system work for all? By Suerie Moon, Contributing Blogger Research Director and Co-Chair, Forum on Global Governance for Health, Harvard Global Health Institute This is a cross-post with the Spanish blog El Pais’...
by ghgovernance | Dec 31, 2012 | Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Most Recent Issue
Improving United Nations Funding to Strengthen Global Health Governance- Amending the Helms – Biden Agreement Appendix Timothy K. Mackey and Thomas E. Novotny Global health governance is widely considered fragmented after more than a decade of inconsistent support for...
by ghgovernance | Dec 31, 2012 | Fall 2012 Special Issue: Human Security, Human Security, Most Recent Issue, World Health Organization
The World Health Organization Engaging with Civil Society Networks to Promote Primary Health Care: A Case Study Claire Dickerson, Nathan Grills, Nick Henwood, Susannah Jeffreys, and Ted Lankester Engagement between the World Health Organization (WHO) and civil society...
