This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a 'private turn' in global health governance, and provides theoretical and practical grounds for viewing global health partnerships and philanthropic foundations as closely aligned in their ideational and material approaches to a range of important issues and crises.
This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a 'private turn' in global health governance, and provides theoretical and practical ...
This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade, the study of global health and its interconnection with security has become a prominent and rapidly growing field of research. Ongoing debates question whether health and security should be linked; which (if any) health issues should be treated as security threats; what should be done to address health security threats; and the positive and negative consequences of 'securitizing' health. In academic and policy terms, the health security field is a timely and...
This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade, the study of glo...
In the age of air travel and globalized trade, pathogens that once took months or even years to spread beyond their regions of origin can now circumnavigate the globe in a matter of hours. Amid growing concerns about such epidemics as Ebola, SARS, MERS, and H1N1, disease diplomacy has emerged as a key foreign and security policy concern as countries work to collectively strengthen the global systems of disease surveillance and control.
The revision of the International Health Regulations (IHR), eventually adopted by the World Health Organization's member states in 2005, was the...
In the age of air travel and globalized trade, pathogens that once took months or even years to spread beyond their regions of origin can now circu...
