The Globalism and Social Policy Program (GASPP) was a joint academic and advisory
program between the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health in …

This Essay examines the scope of the United Nations Security Council as a global health
actor. Focusing on developments in the Council's agenda in the last two decades, it takes …

This book maps the emergence of health in global development discourse and governance
since 1990. It argues that health norms have emerged, diffused, and subsequently become …

FOREWORD focus on the most visible, high profile diseases (eg, novel influenza, SARS,
anthrax) or dramatic events requiring rescue (eg, tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes), which …

At least two threads of argument and analysis, which are not mutually exclusive, can be
identified in the literature on political economy and health in a global context. The first treats …

Is investing in health a good buy in poor countries? The Center for Global Development's
(CGD) Global Health Policy Network presents a compilation of 17 large scale successful …

How can sustainability be achieved in a highly value-laden, expensive, and complex policy
sector? This chapter applies a systems-based analysis to understand the policy problems of …

The OECD states that in times of globalization" social ills associated with poverty-disease,
illicit migration, environmental degradation, crime, political instability, armed conflict and …

In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political,
personal and economic concern. In the US, plans to address a troubled health care model …

The HIV/AIDS pandemic made the concept of “global health” intelligible to people outside a
narrow circle of activists and visionary professionals. It also demonstrated the need for a …