Objective: To investigate how donors and government agencies responded to a proliferation of donors providing aid to Ghana’s health sector between 1995 and 2012. Methods: We interviewed 39 key informants from donor agencies, central government and nongovernmental organizations in Accra. These...

The proper object of global health governance (GHG) should be the common good, ensuring that all people have the opportunity to flourish. A well-organized global society that promotes the common good is to everyone’s advantage. Enabling people to flourish includes enabling their ability to be...

Understanding the relationship between women's political participation and health has eluded researchers and cannot be adequately studied using traditional epidemiological or social scientific methodologies. We employed a health capability framework to understand dimensions of health agency to...

Background Substance use decreases in pregnancy but little prospective data are available on the rates of abstinence and relapse for specific substances. This study compared rates of abstinence in pregnancy and relapse postpartum for nicotine cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. Methods...

The summer 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa illustrates global health's striking inequalities. Globalization has also increased pandemics, and disparate health system conditions mean that where one falls ill or is injured in the world can mean the difference between quality care,...

Micro-costing is a cost estimation method that allows for precise assessment of the economic costs of health interventions. It has been demonstrated to be particularly useful for estimating the costs of new interventions, for interventions with large variability across providers, and for...

The experience of human life differs dramatically depending on where one lives in the world. While many of those in wealthier countries can expect decent nutrition, housing, education, and health care, those in the poorest countries live under extraordinary poverty and hardship, without...

Injection drug use is a leading transmission route of HIV and STDs, and disease prevention among drug users is an important public health concern. This study assesses cost-effectiveness of behavioral interventions for reducing HIV and STDs infections among injection drug-using women....

In July 2013, Timothy Evans became Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank. Just last year, President Obama nominated Jim Yong Kim, a global health expert, as president of the World Bank. These choices both signify global health's ascendance in development practice and put...

In 2000, the world community adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a number of which are health-related (child and maternal mortality; HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; poverty; hunger; safe water; sanitation; and essential drugs), and began a process of global cooperation to...