Diplomacy is undergoing profound changes in the 21st century, and global health is one of the areas where this is most apparent. The negotiation processes that shape and manage the global policy environment for health are increasingly conducted not only between public health experts representing health ministries of nation states but include many other major players at the national level and in the global arena. These include philanthropists and public- private players. As health moves beyond its purely technical realm to become an ever more critical element in foreign policy, security...

In the burgeoning work on global health governance, the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) role as an influential think-tank and transmission belt for health policy ideas remains unexplored. Global Health Governance and the OECD is a unique and in-depth study of the development of the OECD in relation to global health governance. It traces how the OECD's predecessor, the OEEC, commenced work in health in the 1950s; work that slowly grew over the years and was expanded by the OECD into a variety of health-related areas, in the last decade into the leading source of...