The power of survivor advocacy: making car trunks escapable.

Power and Politics in the Global Health Landscape: Beliefs, Competition and Negotiation Among Global Advocacy Coalitions in the Policy-Making Process

Background Advocacy coalitions play an increasingly prominent role within the global health landscape, linking actors and institutions to attract political attention and resources. This paper examines how coalitions negotiate among themselves and exercise hidden forms of power to produce policy on the basis of their beliefs and strategic interests.   Methods This paper examines the beliefs and ...

Live, Learn, Pass It on

Introduction: The objective of this project was to engage survivor–advocates by describing their experiences living with lung cancer in an era of increasing treatment options. Methods: This was a qualitative engagement project with participants from a lung cancer advocacy organization’s survivor advisory board. Interviews were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed for stages and associated exper...

An Investigation of the Effect of Client Characteristics on Auditor Advocacy Attitude in Judgment and Decision-Making Processes

Over recent years, researchers have focused on factors shaping auditor advocacy attitude. The literature review shows that auditors’ attitudes towards clients are among factors affecting judgment and decision-making processes. The main objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of client importance and image on auditor advocacy attitude in judgment and decision-making processe...

Tapping the Power of Soda Taxes: A Call for Multidisciplinary Research and Broad-Based Advocacy Coalitions – A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Global Health Warning: Definitions Wield Power; Comment on “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health”

Gorik Ooms recently made a strong case for considering the centrality of normative premises to analyzing and understanding the underappreciated importance of the nexus of politics, power and process in global health. This critical commentary raises serious questions for the practice and study of global health and global health governance. First and foremost, this commentary underlines the impor...