Background Books
Health: A Political Choice – From Fragmentation to Integration
Edited by Ilona Kickbusch and John Kirton
Published by GT Media, 2023
Free downloadable electronic version available here with bonus video content
See also the Global Governance Project
A decisive year for global health
- Health: a human right
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general, World Health Organization
- Addressing the deficiencies of globalisation
- Axel R Pries and Frederike Sontag, World Health Summit
- Health at the heart of sustainable development
- Amina J Mohammed, deputy secretary-general, United Nations
- An 'off the shelf' cure for fragmentation?
- Achim Steiner, administrator, United Nations Development Programme
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Editors' introductions
- The patchwork of global health policymaking
- Ilona Kickbusch, founding director, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Integrating global health governance for a fragmented world
- John Kirton, director, Global Governance Program
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- Generative AI and the impact on health equity (promoted content)
- Vanessa Huang, general partner, and Dr Zhi Yang, chair, BVCF
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Spotlight on Partnerships
- Global health security and diplomacy in the 21st century
- John Nkengasong, US global AIDS coordinator and senior bureau official for the Global Health Security and Diplomacy Bureau
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A new global health order
- A healthier future in sight
- Katsunobu Kato, former minister of health, labour and welfare, Japan
- A view from the Global South
- Mansukh Mandaviya, union minister of health and family welfare, India
- From crisis to partnership
- Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety
- G20 and G7 convergence key for a new global health order
- Hatice Beton, executive director, G20 and G7 Health and Development Partnership
- The climate crisis is a health crisis
- Vanessa Kerry, WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health
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Spotlight on financing
- A new financial platform
- Catharina Boehme, assistant director-general, External Relations and Governance, World Health Organization, and Thomas Östros, vice president, European Investment Bank
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- AI's transformative potential to improve global health equity (promoted content)
- Karen DeSalvo, chief health officer, and Ivor Horn, chief health equity officer, Google
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Integrating action for health and well-being
- Nothing about us without us
- Inger Ashing, CEO, Save the Children International
- The whole: greater than the sum of its parts
- Joy St John, executive director, Caribbean Public Health Agency
- From dementia to 'supermentia'
- Vladimir Hachinski, Western University, and Mayowa Owolabi, University of Ibadan
- Building integrated health systems saves lives
- Carolyn Bennett, member of parliament, Canada
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- Soaring drones:
delivering a milestone
in tackling healthcare
disparities (promoted content)
- Maria Tereno, corporate
vice president, culture
and sustainability,
Boehringer Ingelheim
- Gender equity is the backbone of global prosperity (promoted content)
- Kevin Ali, CEO and board
member, Organon
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Spotlight on workforce
- From a vicious cycle to a virtuous cycle
- Interview with Pamela Cipriano, president, International Council of Nurses
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Planetary health
- Healthier environments: a requirement for better health and safety
- Maria Neira, director, and Annette Prüss, unit head, policies and interventions, Health and Environment Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health World Health Organization
- Biodiversity and health: from fragmentation to integration
- David Cooper, acting executive secretary, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
- From theory to practice
- Interview with Monique Eliot, director-general, World Organisation for Animal Health
- In the face of future disasters
- Mami Mizutori, head, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Lebanon: reform and sustainability
- Firass Abiad, minister of public health, Lebanon
- A new narrative of hope
- Omnia El Omrani, climate change and health junior policy fellow, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London
- Many for the price of one
- C James Hospedales, founder, EarthMedic and EarthNurse Foundation for Planetary Health
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Spotlight on Africa
- A new deal for African health security
- Jean Kaseya, CEO and director-general, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
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- The call for a health taxonomy (promoted content)
- Interview with Dr Zhi Yang, chair, BVCF
- Innovation and equity: at the core of future pandemic responses (promoted content)
- Thomas Cueni, director-general, IFPMA
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Digital transformation of health
- Transformation supporting a shift from analogue to digital health systems
- Alain Labrique, director, Digital Health and Innovation, World Health Organization
- BONUS: Technology: meeting Rwanda's healthcare needs
- Paula Ingabire, minister of information and communication technology and innovation, Rwanda
- A plague on health systems
- Anurag Agrawal, dean, Biosciences and Health Research, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University
- Seamless, simple and speedy
- Marelize Görgens, lead, Digital Health Flagship Program, World Bank
- Health data: everyone's business
- Mathilde Forslund, executive director, Transform Health
- Equity in eHealth: amplifying youth voices in mental health care
- Melissa Gasser, PhD candidate, University of Washington
- Digitalising Slovenia's healthcare system
- Interview with Kerstin Vesna Petric, head, Office for Cooperation with WHO, and Alenka Kolar, director-general, Directorate for the Digitalization in Healthcare, Ministry of Health Slovenia, and Hajdi Kosednar, eHealth Manager, Centre for Healthcare Informatics, Public Health Institute of Slovenia
- New healthcare frontiers
- Maliha Hashmi, World Economic Forum Global Future Council Expert
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- Alternative futures for digital health (promoted content)
- Jake Atkinson, STOPAIDS, Sara (Meg) Davis, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, Ulla Jasper, Fondation Botnar, Maria Malomalo, Restless Development, and Sabina F Rashid, James P Grant School of Public Health, Brac University
- A more equitable future for health information (promoted content)
- Garth Graham, head, YouTube Health
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Preparing for a safer world together
- A pact for global pandemic readiness
- Karl Lauterbach, health minister, Federal Republic of Germany
- Reshaping global health
- Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija, WHO Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, and chair, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
- The Pandemic Fund, a testament to multilateralism
- M Chatib Basri, co-chair, Pandemic Fund
- Tackling it together: for a unified pandemic response
- Precious Matsoso, co-chair, Intergovernmental Negotiating Body for the Pandemic Accord, and Elil Renganathan, professor of public health and policy, Sunway University
- Trust during pandemics: a critical determinant of successful response
- Sylvie Briand, director, Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, and Sarah Hess, World Health Organization
- Health surveillance: the bedrock of health security
- Chikwe Ihekweazu, Samuel Mbuthia and Mala Kumar, WHO Open Source Programme Office, WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence
- A 100-day mission
- Oyeronke Oyebanji, chief of staff for policy and partnerships, and Frederik Kristensen, deputy CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
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Spotlight on well-being
- Unlocking health for all
- Hans Henri P Kluge, director, World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe
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Integrating responses to inequalities and disease burdens
- Health care away from home
- Interview with Raouf Mazou, assistant high commissioner for operations, United Nations High Commission for Refugees
- A social justice approach to health
- Gilbert F Houngbo, director-general, International Labour Organization
- Defining the future of global health
- José Manuel Barroso, board chair, Gavi, and former president, European Commission
- Struggling to heal: Egypt's health initiatives in the face of health burdens
- Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, minister of health and population, Egypt
- The impact of globalisation on the health of at-risk populations
- Ernest C Madu, chair, Heart Institute of the Caribbean and HIC Heart Hospital
- A gender-equal health system
- Interview with Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and Joy Phumaphi, co-chairs, Global Preparedness Monitoring Board
- Empowering communities worldwide: the Global Contraception Atlas
- Neil Datta, executive director, European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights
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- Tackling the global burden of cancer (promoted content)
- Markus Kosch, head of oncology, Europe and Canada, Daiichi Sankyo
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