Global health governance
We are in transition from what seemed a relatively reliable state defined and structured world of international health to a diffuse political space of global health in which new forms of distributed power and new patterns of power sharing emerge….even the most cursory analysis of global health governance shows that existing mechanisms of governance and resource flows are insufficient to address the problems at stake and to generate the political will necessary for action.
Kickbusch, Ilona Global health governance: Some theoretical considerations on the New Political Space. In Lee, K. (ed) Globalization and Health. London Palgrave 2003,
NEW: An analysis on the governance challenges at the global level Addressing global health governance challenges through a new mechanism: the proposal for a Committee C of the World Health Assembly. Ilona Kickbusch, Wolfgang Hein, Gaudenz Silberschmidt in: Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics Fall 2010, JLME 38.3.
An analysis of the governance challenges at the level of the WHO Regional office for Europe >>> more
A new governance space: Exploring the expanded responsibility
for health within society has always been at the core of Ilona Kickbusch´s
work and she has pushed the agenda both in her academic work and her work at
the WHO. At present her main interest lies in analyzing the new political space
of global health which allows for new forms of power and new patterns of powersharing
to emerge and in understanding the nature and potential of network governance
in the global health arena.
Health as a global public good: A key factor in these consideration is the discussion of health as a global public good.
Some key readings:
- With Gaudenz Silberschmidt and Don Matheson: Creating a committee C of the World Health Assembly. This was published in The Lancet 2008; 371:1483-1486
- Moving Global Health Governance forward. Chapter 15 in: Buse et al Making Sense of Global Health Governance. A Policy Perspective. Palgrave MacMillan 2009
- Global Health, Aid Effectiveness and the Changing Role of the WHO. (with Wolfgang Hein) GIGA Focus, International Edition. 3/2010, pp 1-7
- Global Public Health. (with B. Seck) In: Douglas et al (eds) Challenge and Controversy in promoting Public health. Sage in association with the Open University, London 2007
- Globalization, Woman and Health in the 21st Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2005 (ed, with Kari Hartwig, Justin List)
- Influence and opportunity: Observations on the US role in global public health. In: Health Affairs, November/December 2002, Vol.21, Nr. 6 pg 131-141 (to be reprinted in a reader on Global Health Governance forthcoming autumn 2003)
- Global Health Governance: some new theoretical considerations on the new political space. Chapter in Lee, K. (ed) Globalization and Health. London Palgrave 2003, pg. 192-203