In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue
of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of …

In recent years the spread of diseases such as AIDS, SARS and avian flu has pushed health
issues towards the top of the international agenda. Such outbreaks have serious political …

Three crises in 2009 revealed the inadequacy of global health governance. The outbreak of
pandemic influenza A (H1N1) found countries scrambling for access to vaccines, an …

The Millennium ushered in renewed interest and investment in global health, in part
because of concerns that globalization would intensify the risks of ill-health. But are we …

Recently global health issues have leapt to the forefront of the international agenda and are
now an everyday concern around the world. The war for global health is clearly being lost on …

The authors examine how health governance is being transformed amid globalization,
characterized by the emergence of new actors and institutions, and the interplay of …

This is a new volume in global health analyzes twenty first century innovations in global
health governance. It addresses questions of pandemics, essential medicines and disease …

With the emergence of global health comes governance challenges which are equally
global in nature. This article identifies some of the initial limitations in analyses of global …

In the 1980s, health was a marginal issue on the international political agenda, and it barely
figured into donor states' foreign aid allocation. Within a generation, health had developed a …

The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international
organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of …