This article analyses the emergency governance of international organizations by combining securitization theory with legal theory on the state of exception. Our main argument is that where issues are securitized as global threats, exceptionalism can emerge at the level of supranational bodies,...

This paper examines two strategies aimed at demonstrating that moral obligations to improve global health exist. The ‘humanitarian model’ stresses that all human beings, regardless of affluence or global location, are fundamentally the same in terms of moral status. This model argues that...

The Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) was established in 2003 to disburse funds to the poorest countries to be utilised in fighting these three major diseases. It has a unique organisational structure which is part of a new breed of public private institutions (PPIs)...

In this paper we critically analyse one of the new global health institutions: The Global Fund to fight Aids Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFTAM). The GFTAM, as an international body, is novel because it doesn’t operate at the national level in the countries in which it disburses funds for the...

The development of a new global health architecture in the wake of Covid-19 will require important decisions to be made, especially when it comes to negotiating a pandemic accord and creating robust supply chains. Against the backdrop of their systemic rivalry, the US and China view global...

The "One Health" approach has found its way into political processes at various levels. The reason for this is the increased occurrence of zoonoses, i.e. infectious diseases that can be reciprocally transmitted between animals and humans. One Health is located at the intersection of human,...

This review takes stock of the global health governance (GHG) literature. We address the transition from international health governance (IHG) to global health governance, identify major actors, and explain some challenges and successes in GHG. We analyze the framing of health as national...