[EQ] Assessing Proposals for Global Health Governance Reform

Student Voices 2:
Assessing Proposals for Global Health Governance Reform

Edited by Steven J. Hoffman

Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University

Adjunct Faculty, McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University
Research Fellow, Global Health Diplomacy Program, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

McMaster Health Forum, March 2011
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - ISBN 978-1-894088-27-5

Available online [180p.] at: http://bit.ly/hGpkir

 

           

“…This edited volume offers evidence-based assessments of thirteen existing proposals for global health governance reform. These include proposals that call for the creation of or a larger role for the:

1.       Health 8 (H8)

2.       Committee C of the World Health Assembly

3.       International Health Partnership and Related initiatives (IHP+)

4.       Group of 8 (G8)

5.       Global Fund for Health

6.       Biosecurity Concert

7.       World Development Organization

8.       Networked Governance

9.       Global Action Networks

10.   Framework Convention on Global Health

11.   Global Plan for Justice

12.   Issue-Specific Global Health Laws

13.   Health Impact Fund

 

Each chapter relies on an extensive review of the available research evidence and a broad range of insights to: (a) summarize the key elements of each proposed global health governance reform; (b) identify the needs it seeks to address; (c) examine the extent to which it could strengthen global health governance and ameliorate known weaknesses in its existing architecture; (d) analyze the proposal’s political attractiveness; (e) raise implementation considerations such as costs, risks, possible harms, feasibility and equity; and (f) offer recommendations on whether the proposal should be further explored for possible implementation.

 

A common analytical framework was developed and utilized to help structure each chapter and ensure a comprehensive approach to each assessment. For example, when examining the extent to which each proposal may address the various challenges facing global health governance, the authors used Gostin and Mok’s six “grand challenges in global health governance” as their evaluation criteria for assessing the merit of each proposal. The use of a common analytical framework also offered the added benefit of enhancing comparability across the examined proposals (see Tables 1-3).

 

The authors of this report are all students at McMaster University who prepared these essays for the fourth-year undergraduate Law & Disorder in Global Health (HTH SCI 4LD3) course, offered from September to December 2010 by the Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) Program in collaboration with the McMaster Health Forum. In publishing this report, it is our belief that today’s students have an important role to play in global health decision-making for both their innovative ideas and future leadership of the global health community. Through this publication, it is hoped that these students can help shape the future of global health governance reform while preparing themselves to confront tomorrow’s greatest challenges…”

 

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