The World Health Organization (WHO) was intended to serve at the forefront of efforts to realize human rights to … advance global health, and yet this promise of a rights-based approach to health has long been threatened by political … interview research with global health stakeholders, this research examines WHO's contributions to (and, in many cases …

Policy-Feld "Global Health". Explizit geht es um Autorität innerhalb des institutionellen Rahmens globaler Gesundheitspolitik …This paper links the main issues of the project "Contested World Order" (WZB, GIGA, HSFK) to the policy field of global … health: the authority of the institutional setting, and the preferences and strategies of rising powers and non-state actors …

Global public health agreements are heralded as a success for the affirmation of the right to health within a complex … overlooked. This article outlines two radically different global health agreements: The Doha Declaration on the Trade …-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement and Public Health; and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control …

. We illustrate this security–emergency dynamic in a case study of the recent empowerment of the World Health Organization … (WHO) in the governance of global health emergencies. The article shows how WHO's exceptional response to the 2003 severe …

Background With the exception of key 'proven successes' in global health, the current regime of global health … international cooperation, which fails to provide sufficient justification for an obligation to assist in meeting the health needs … develops select components of an alternative model of shared health governance (SHG), which aims to provide a 'road map …

Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World, Dr. Obijofor Aginam engages the root causes of public health … WHO is the world’s leading cause of ill health and suffering. This perspective is shared by Kofi Annan, arguing that the … global health challenges in a divided world …

A proposal to reduce global health architecture to three actors (one to handle financing, one to set norms and … health system, such as monitoring and multi-lateral negotiations, that will be neglected. Assigning advocacy and …

, Critique of Practical ReasonGlobal Health Governance (“GHG”) – viz. collaborative trans-national research and action for … promoting health for all – turns on a clear and distinct understanding of “the science being qua being” notably with respect to …