Governance
There is a new world of challenges for global health governance, with shifting donor priorities and evolving health needs in many low- and middle-income nations. This section offers an inside look at the ways in which global health governance is adapting to these changes, with a focus on the institutions, rules, and processes that govern the health of people across the world.
Governance
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More than 1.2 million people across the globe died of antibiotic resistant superbugs in 2019
Antibiotic Resistance Is a Smoldering Crisis
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In 2021, 9.3 million people lost their jobs across Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia's Economic Future After COVID-19
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By December 2021, 94 percent of people in LMICs had not yet received a first dose of COVID vaccine
Billions Committed, Millions Delivered
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More than 800,000 people still die each year due to HIV
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Where there was trust in local health workers people were 3.3 times more likely to wear a mask during COVID
Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic Hinges on Trust
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In 2019, the United States spent $61 million on NCD development assistance
Noncommunicable Diseases and Foreign Policy on Global Health
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World Health Organization founded
World Health Organization founded
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Though China was the first country hit by the COVID pandemic, within 4 months it effectively halted the virus
The Closed Loop of the Beijing Olympics
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North Korea's COVID-19 Crisis: An Impossible Outbreak in the "Impossible State"
Victor Cha, Korea chair at CSIS, on the health, political, and economic factors shaping North Korea's outbreak
Ukraine: A Turning Point for Attacks on Health
Accountability is overdue for wartime atrocities in Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Gaza, Myanmar, and now Ukraine
Just How Do Deaths Due to COVID-19 Stack Up?
Despite a likely undercount in many places, COVID-19 is the leading killer in most of Latin America and Western Europe
Tucker Carlson Blasts the Pandemic Treaty as a Threat to the American Way of Life
The Fox News pundit joined the global health debate and invited viewers to think about what he said—so I did
A Help Wanted Sign for Health Workers
What the ratio of doctors to nurses in Bangladesh and the Philippines tells us about the global health worker shortage
Building COVID-19 Vaccine Production Capacity in LMICs
Patents aren't really the problem—usually
Five Questions for the World Health Assembly
The assembly meets as global health transitions into a dangerous post-COVID world
U.S. War Aims, Health, and the Armed Conflict in Ukraine
Ambitious U.S. objectives in the war will affect health on Ukrainian battlefields and in nations beyond
The Domestic Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy on Global Health
The transformation of American politics threatens foreign policy engagement on global health
War Threatens Ukraine's Progress Curbing HIV/AIDS
Russia's invasion is keeping lifesaving medication out of the hands of Ukrainians living with HIV
Global Health and the Declaration for the Future of the Internet
The declaration takes geopolitical and ideological stands that raise questions for global health
Unvaccinated in Nigeria and Still Waiting on a Jab
Scaling up COVID-19 antivirals to fight new variants is now more important than ever
COVID-19's Repercussions on Public Health Policy and Law in the United States
The pandemic has triggered regressive state-based law and policy reforms across America
Opioid Overdose Deaths: What the United States Can Learn From Other Countries
Naloxone for everyone and supervised drug consumption rooms could be the future