Governing Global Health

Andrew Cooper is Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. John Kirton is Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada. Ted Schrecker is Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada.

• I: Introduction; 1: Governing Global Health in the Twenty-First Century; II: Global Challenges and Responses; 2: The Transformation in Global Health Collaboration since the 1990s; 3: Global Health, Social Movements, and Governance; 4: A Pathology of Public Health Securitism: Approaching Pandemics as Security Threats; III: The Central Institutions: The Multilateral System; 5: Public Health in a Globalising World: The Perspective from the World Health Organization; 6: Reaching the Millennium Development Goals; 7: Can the World Trade Organization Help Achieve the Health Millennium Development Goals?; 8: Partnerships for Health, the Environment, and Governance; IV: The Central Institutions: The G8 System; 9: The G8 and Global Health Governance; 10: Diplomatic Rhetoric or Rhetorical Diplomacy: The G8 and Global Health Governance; 11: Keeping Faith with Africa's Health: Catalysing G8 Compliance; 12: Breaking Faith with Africa: The G8 and Population Health after Gleneagles; 13: Global Health and Universal Human Rights: The Case for G8 Accountability; V: Conclusion; 14: Toward Innovation in Global Health Governance

'This is a seminal work. We live in an interconnected world in which health and illness, like so much else, have gone global. This challenge will demand major changes in transnational governance. The book discusses in a detailed and imaginative way what these changes should be.' Lord Anthony Giddens, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 'At a time when the human species faces great uncertainty over its capacity to balance globalization with the need for social and environmental protection, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of global health governance. As well as revealing the limitations of existing institutions, the authors encourage innovative thinking about how to better address the challenges of global health.' Kelley Lee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 'This book will interest professionals working on health policy...Recommended. Graduate students, faculty/researchers, and professionals/practitioners.' Choice 'This excellent book provides a comprehensive and analytical overview of the socio-political and economic factors that contribute to an understanding of global health governance. The opening chapter outlines compelling arguments for why such an understanding should be everyone's business...This is a visionary and challenging text that should be required reading for all healthcare professionals and their teachers.' Nursing Standard 'Overall, this book makes the case for why global health governance must be further explored within international relations. There have recently been important developments in international law and the role of international organizations, and this book makes a good start in taking this exploration further.' Political Studies Review 'This book gives the reader an excellent perspective on the war against the spread of disease as well as some unvarnished and high-resolution views of the terrain and the challenge before us that must be met and vanquished.' New England Journal of Medicine 'The contributors of the 14 chapters which comprise the volume are knowledgeable, prominent scholars of global health...This book is a must-read for anyone interested in global health governance; it is an excellent, coherent contribution to the current debates on this topic of major consequence for human security and welfare.' The Round Table 'This book may allow health professionals on an international level to understand better the power games with which their actions are linked. It is also a tool for researchers and students working in governance in general or in global cooperation within the field of health.' Etudes internationales '...the collection as a whole provides excellent material for a discourse analysis of conversations regarding global governance and health...[it] is quite fascinating as a reflection of several contending ways of answering the general question of why health in developing countries might matter.' Health Sociology Review '...the text provides a solid overview of core 21st century health challenges, and delves into very specific health governance issues such as securitization, the contextual frame of human rights discourse, and health performance outcomes in case regions like Africa. In this regard, it would be a useful text for public health and policy scholars, as well as a source for issue area readings in an advanced undergraduate or graduate seminar.' Critical Public Health