Global health response to crises needs reform

Global health response to crises needs reform.

The Global Health Crisis of Solidarity: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Global Health as a Field of Power Relations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Actors working in global health often portray it as an enterprise grounded in principled concerns, advanced by individuals and organizations who draw on scientific evidence to pursue health equity. This portrait is incomplete. It is also a field of power relations—a social arena in which actors claim and draw on expertise and moral authority to gain influence and pursue career, organizational a...

Public reporting needs reform!

L ike many of my colleagues, I support President Obama's call to demonstrate value as part of health care reform. One way to do that is through public reporting. The rationale is that public scrutiny of outcomes will motivate the health care " industry " to improve the " product " (outcomes), rather than accelerating value-less economic activity (process) that often benefi ts providers more tha...

Vaccines and future global health needs.

Increased international support for both research into new vaccines and their deployment in developing countries has been evident over the past decade. In particular, the GAVI Alliance has had a major impact in increasing uptake of the six common infant vaccines as well as those against hepatitis B and yellow fever. It further aims to introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines in the near fu...