Obligations under global health partnerships in LMICs should be contractual

Quasi-Contractual Obligations

Global partnerships for health.

As a reflexion on Dr Brundtland's speech, I would like to stress the important role global partnerships can play in the struggle for equitable health improvement. Dr Brundtland's focus, reasonably, is on infectious diseases with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS and SARS. She puts much emphasis on the undoubted successes in 2003 in controlling SARS, but less emphasis on our shamefully slow response to HI...

Evaluating Global Health Partnerships: A Case Study of a Gavi HPV Vaccine Application Process in Uganda

Background Global health partnerships have grown rapidly in number and scope, yet there has been less emphasis on their evaluation. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is one such public-private partnership; in Gavi-eligible countries partnerships are dynamic networks of immunization actors who work together to support all stages and aspects of Gavi support. This paper describes a conceptual framework ...

Global Health Training Should Be Structured, Standardized, and Universal

Academic Medicine, Vol. 89, No. 4 / April 2014 530 has limited benefits and potential harms for the receiving community abroad. As these short-term models become popular, our research group believes that standards are needed to shift this “balance of benefits” more towards the intended service recipients (i.e., the community abroad) while retaining benefits derived by learners and sending insti...

Global health public-private partnerships: IAVI, partnerships and capacity building.

New developments in biotechnology and the need to overcome the lack of incentive for investment in vaccines for diseases affecting Africa have led to the promotion of product development public-private partnerships (PPP). Our work at the ESRC INNOGEN Research Centre assesses the way in which these collaborative mechanisms approach their mission of getting science to work for the poor and what t...