[EQ] Global Health Governance

Working Group Meeting: Global Health Governance

Board on Global Health (BGH) - US Institute of Medicine, June 2008

 

A working group of the Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health held a public meeting on global health governance on June 26th, 2008
Washington, DC.

 

The working group meeting addressed opportunities to advance U.S. engagement in global health governance. 
Agenda:
http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/55/247/June%2026_%20Governance%20Workshop%20DRAFT%20Agenda_08%2006%2030.pdfn

 

Julian Schweitzer, Director, Health, Nutrition, and Population, World Bank - Opening Remarks

http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/55/689/Sch.pdf

 

Larry Gostin, Associate Dean and Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center

PANEL 1: State-centered approaches to global health governance 2: Civil society approaches to global health governance

What major institutions are governing global health, and how effectively? Through what processes are decisions made and implemented? What role do these institutions play in setting priorities? What norms are guiding and constraining these institutions and the processes they use? How can institutions be more nimble to adapt to the changing global environment? Often the internal and external incentives that influence organizational behavior are inconsistent with effective cooperation in governance. Can incentive structures for collaboration, coordination, and better functioning be identified and aligned?

 

Ian Smith, Advisor to the Director-General, WHO

http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/55/687/Smith.pdf

 

David Bell, Senior Medical Officer, Office of Strategy and Innovation, CDC

http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/55/685/Bell.pdf

 

PANEL 2: Civil society approaches to global health governance

Does civil society govern global health, and if so, how effectively? Through what processes are decisions

made and implemented? What role does civil society play in setting global priorities? What norms are

guiding and constraining civil society and the processes they use? At the global level, what are the roles and

limits of civil society as a partner in health governance effectiveness, scale, replicability and sustainability?

What is being done to improve the accountability of civil society?

Seth Berkley, President and CEO, IAVI (teleconference)

David De Ferranti, President and Director of Health Financing Task Force, Results for Development

Josh Lozman, Vote '08 Policy Manager, One Campaign http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/55/681/Lozman2.pdf

Rhona MacDonald, Global Health Watch (teleconference)

 

PANEL 3: Optimal global health architecture and institutions

 

Is the current population of institutions the optimal one? How well are the traditional and newer governance structures working? What are the criteria one might use to identify necessary or productive aspects of institutions, initiatives, frameworks, partnerships, etc? What is the state of innovation in governance today? How can the U.S. improve global health governance?

 

Mark Rosenberg, Executive Director, Task Force for Child Survival and Development
http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/55/679/Rosenberg.pdf

Maria Ivanova, Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Policy, The College of William and Mary; Director, Global Environmental Governance Project, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy

Jennifer Prah Ruger, Co-Director of the Yale/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and Research

David Fidler, James L. Calamaras Professor of Law, Indiana University

 

Clarion E. Johnson, Medical Director, Medicine and Occupational Health, ExxonMobil’s Global Health Department

June 26, 2008 at: http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/55/683/Johnson.pdf

 

 

 

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