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Blog: Sydney Health Law
If you live on planet earth, you have a stake in global health law. This post draws attention to two upcoming short courses taught by global health law colleagues in Europe. Summer in Geneva? The University of Geneva will be hosting a course on International Law, Global Health and Global Justice on June 26-30, 2023. […]
Blog: Verfassungsblog
Since at least the 1980s, private actors and market-based mechanisms have played an increasingly important role in the provision of public goods and services and the pursuit of public policy objectives in general. A market approach is also widely used in the field of public health. In effect, the PPP approach, as illustrated by COVAX, can work to structurally protect the interests of (a majority) of the high-income countries. While PPPs in global health may do a lot of good things, their private law, contractualist nature and structures safeguard formal state sovereignty and voluntarism, predominantly benefitting high-income donor countries
Blog: Verfassungsblog
With an estimated 6,9 million deaths and with its enormous scale of economic, social and political collateral damages, the COVID-19 Pandemic has created excessive momentum for re-considering the rules and procedures governing global health – or has it? In this blog contribution, I will discuss the promises and pitfalls of current law-making and law-amending efforts that seek to strengthen pandemic governance post COVID-19 by reflecting on three distinct features of global health as an area of international cooperation.
Blog: USAPP
Artificial intelligence (AI) has many potential applications in health care. Divya Srivastava writes that as policymakers grapple with the question of how to regulate AI health solutions, there is a clear need for international collaboration founded on robust research. Digital health technologies have become an important part of health care systems across the world. This … Continued
Blog: Verfassungsblog
The coronavirus pandemic has once again shown that scarcity and distribution are political problems. It is only through distribution that resources, finite in principle, are separated into scarce and non-scarce goods. So how can this unfair distribution of resources be countered?
Blog: Orders Beyond Borders
In the past decade, Germany has caught the attention of the world for the high-profile moves it has made in the field of global public health. While the country's contributions …
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Blog: Soziopolis. Gesellschaft beobachten
Call for Applications of the Frankfurt University. Deadline: February 18, 2024
Blog: Podcast - Orders Beyond Borders
In this episode of our interview series, our host Luis Aue talks to Prof. Nitsan Chorev, Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Listen …
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Blog: APHA Science Blog
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top ten global public health threats. Read more about how APHA and partners harness their expertise to help partners located in low- and middle-income countries to develop their approach to investigating AMR and antimicrobial use.
Blog: LSE Global Health
In this blog, LSE students Patricia Jairos and Elizabeth Cleary share their reflections on a panel event discussing the motion, "This house believes that social determinants of health (SDH) are buzzwords in the global health field". Studies show that SDH account for up to 55% of health outcomes, yet there exists a gap in transforming … Continued
Blog: LSE Global Health
In this blog, Damien de Walque and Eeshani Kandpal from the World Bank talk to Xiaoran Xu about their latest policy research report, “Improving Effective Coverage in Health: Do Financial Incentives Work?” published in May 2022. Healthcare coverage has increased in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last decades, yet health outcomes have remained … Continued
Blog: LSE Global Health
In this blog, the authors discuss their recent commentary: Challenging the Illusion: Health Equity Amidst New Variants, arguing that health equity has remained an illusion during the COVID-19 pandemic. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic pushed everyone – from world leaders to community health workers – to rethink whether our health systems are truly fit-for-purpose. … Continued
Blog: LSE Global Health
It is exactly three years since the COVID-19 Pandemic erupted worldwide in 2020. Shutting borders and causing economic downturns wreaking havoc in the already fragile health systems common in most developing countries. But even before populations in these countries could get COVID-19 shots in their arms, we find ourselves in a seemingly unending cycle of … Continued
Blog: LSE Global Health
This blog is written with the intention to reflect on the findings and discussion in relation to mental health and poverty in the context of low- and middle-income countries in the Middle East. This is the third and final blog in the series. The Middle East and North Africa is home to approximately 6% of … Continued
Blog: LSE Global Health
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for approving and regulating all drugs in the US. Aside from its domestic role, the FDA is also globally important, writes Robin Forrest. Drawing attention to mechanisms of global drug development, market dynamics, and recent trends in drug approvals, he argues that the influence of the FDA outside of … Continued