Global Health Action Supplement 1, 2013 BUILDING NEW KNOWLEDGE

Rapidly Building Global Health Security Capacity — Uganda Demonstration Project, 2013

Increasingly, the need to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats around the globe is being recognized. CDC, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), has committed to building capacity by assisting member states with strengthening their national capacity for integrated disease surveillance and response as required by International Heal...

Knowledge, Politics and Power in Global Health; Comment on “Knowledge, Moral Claims and the Exercise of Power in Global Health”

This article agrees with recent arguments suggesting that normative and epistemic power is rife within global health policy and provides further examples of such. However, in doing so, it is argued that it is equally important to recognize that global health is, and always will be, deeply political and that some form of power is not only necessary for the system to advance, but also to try and ...

Building New Knowledge

Global health, personal action.

For those concerned about disparities in health between rich and poor nations, 1993 was a momentous year. First, the World Bank's World Development Report for 1993, subtitled " Investing in Health " [1], forcefully put forward the thesis that improving the health of the poor is an engine for economic development. This is the case because healthier workers are better able to cope with both the i...

Building Intentional Action Knowledge with One’s Hands

Understanding others' actions as intentional is fundamental to everyday social life. Adults view even the simplest and most concrete actions not as sheer movements, but rather as actions organized by intentions. To illustrate, observing a group of children and a ball traversing a soccer field, we perceive the motions of the former, but not the latter, as structured with respect to a goal, in th...