Offline: Global health security—smart strategy or naive tactics?

Health protection in the next millennium: from tactics to strategy?

Grand Strategy and Global Health

Despite successes in global health to combat specific diseases, progress remains slow particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss two challenges in the global health landscape currently: the waning hegemony in global health governance and the recurrent pendulum swing between horizontal (health systems focused) to vertical (single-disease focused) programming by donors and agencies. Using Eth...

Global strategy for women's and children's health.

2 Each year, millions of women and children die from preventable causes. These are not mere statistics. They are people with names and faces. Their suffering is unacceptable in the 21st century. We must, therefore, do more for the newborn who succumbs to infection for want of a simple injection, and for the young boy who will never reach his full potential because of malnutrition. We must do mo...

The Strategy and Tactics of Information Warfare

Over the last decade, information technology has been championed by policymakers, activists, international bureaucrats, business leaders and intellectuals as a catalyst for social transformation-generating economic growth and development, peace and global cosmopolitanism, personal freedom and individual empowerment. Like the industrial revolution before it, the information technology revolution...

Imperial or postcolonial governance? Dissecting the genealogy of a global public health strategy.

During the last decades of the 20th century it became increasingly apparent that the inter-relationship between globalisation and health is extremely complex. This complexity is highlighted in debates surrounding the re-emergence of infectious diseases, where it is recognised that the processes of globalisation have combined to create the conditions where once localised, microbial hazards have ...