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.

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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.

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