Thursday, March 4, 2010

[EQ] Call for Submissions: Global Health Governance Special Issue on: Governance and the AIDS Response

Call for Submissions

Global Health Governance Special Issue on: Governance and the AIDS Response


Guest Editors:
Michel Sidibé
, Executive Director of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Kent Buse, Senior Policy Advisor to the Executive Director, will serve as guest editors for this issue. In addition to academic papers, they will solicit commentaries from thought leaders on topical issues and future directions of global health governance.

 


March 15th—Deadline for submissions of Abstract

The next issue of Global Health Governance will focus on Global Health Governance and the AIDS Response. This special issue will explore the contributions of the global AIDS response over the last 30 years to innovations in governance principles, paradigms, and practice.

 

It will outline present challenges, opportunities and future directions for improving both the global governance of the AIDS response and governance approaches to human development, security and dignity more generally. AIDS governance at global, national and community levels has not only transformed the nature of health systems governance, but also shed light on a number of socio-political issues with significant implications for human development.

The editors seek a balance of theoretical/conceptual and empirical pieces from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives including public health, political science and international relations, international law, philosophy, history, anthropology, business and public administration to better understand and improve this exciting area of practice and enquiry.

 

The focus of manuscripts must be on the governance of the AIDS response and/or lessons it offers for Global Health Governance.

 

 The range of possible article topics is vast and may include, but is not limited to, the following:

Ø       Enhancing effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance mechanisms and institutions;

Ø       Systems for inclusive policy-making as well as the engagement of civil society and the private sector in planning, accountability, oversight of national responses;

Ø       Innovations, successes, failures and potential of transparency/accountability mechanisms—including within the multilateral system;

Ø       Process of establishing/validating/disseminating/enforcing novel global norms—particularly concerning sexual and human rights, punitive laws, inclusive policy making, accountability, ethical trials, access; gender;

Ø       Country institutions for governing national responses, such as NACs and CCMs;

Ø       Tensions between concepts of national ownership and global cosmopolitan citizenship and social justice;

Ø       Cross-border civil society interest group formation for policy change and supranational citizenship building;

Ø       Politics of punitive laws—and the role of civil action, networks, partnerships in their repeal;

Ø       Framing and discourse in relation to global priority setting;

Ø       Innovations in communication technologies for global governance;

Ø       AIDS in the context of global and national security as well as global solidarity and justice;

Ø       Lessons from the AIDS response for realizing the right to health through development of novel norms and enforcement processes concerning universal access;

Ø       Role of AIDS activists/networks in development of intellectual property rights discourse/regimes and practice/implications for access to essential health commodities;

Ø       The politics of innovative financing and resource allocation;

Ø       Governance implications of taking the AIDS response out of relative isolation and linking to other efforts to achieve the MDGs;

Ø       Lessons from AIDS partnerships: governance, ethics, politics, public-private interplay.

 


Authors should alert the journal of their intention to submit a manuscript, including the proposed title of the paper, the names of the author(s) and an abstract of no more than 250 words no later than 15 March 2010. The abstract should include the research question(s), methods, findings, main argument and implications.

 

The letter should be submitted to Sonja Tanaka, tanakas@unaids.org. The deadline for submissions is 15 June 2010. The provisional date of publication is October 2010.

 

Timeline

March 15th—Deadline for submissions of Abstracts

June 15th—Deadline for submission of Manuscripts

August 10th—Accept/Reject decisions communicated to authors

September 10th—Deadline for submission of revised Manuscripts

October—Provisional publication of 2010 Fall issue

 

There are no submission fees. 

 

More information about the Journal can be found at the Journal web site <www.ghgj.org>. 

 

 

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[EQ] Food Safety and Global Health: An International Law Perspective

Food Safety and Global Health: An International Law Perspective

Stefania Negri, associate professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Salerno (Italy), where she teaches International Human Rights Law and International Procedural Law.

Global Health Governance, Volume III, No. 1 (fall 2009) http://www.ghgj.org


Available online PDF [26p.] at: http://www.ghgj.org/Negri_food%20safety%20and%20global%20health.pdf

 

“…..Following the recurrence of serious events of food contamination across the globe, food safety has become a matter of ever increasing international concern and the World Health Organization has defined foodborne diseases as a global public health challenge. Protecting global health from foodborne hazards is a compelling duty and a primary interest of both States and non-State actors; it calls for enhanced proactive cooperation between national and international institutions. Unfortunately, the present state of international law on food safety regulation and governance is still unsatisfactory and reforms are desirable in many respects.

 

This paper suggests that improvements and progresses could be achieved in three major areas of intervention:
a) the human rights framework, where the profile of the emerged right to safe food should be raised by way of express recognition in international human rights law, backed up by authoritative interpretation by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and strengthening of accountability and remedial measures;
b) the regulatory framework, where trade and health issues related to food safety should be addressed in a way that contributes to easing tensions between trading parties while prioritizing consumer protection over freedom of trade;
c) the sanitary framework, where international preparedness and response to public health hazards posed by foodborne diseases should benefit, where appropriate, from the extended application of the International Health Regulations and the possible devise of enforcement measures aimed at ensuring international health security….”

 

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[EQ] The social determinants of health and the role of local government

The social determinants of health and the role of local government

Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA) UK
February 2010

Website: http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/17417880

This collection of articles assesses what local government can do to tackle the social conditions that lead to health inequalities. Written by distinguished practitioners and academics, the publication builds on the recent Marmot Review report, 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives'.

Some of the articles are deliberately challenging and provocative. Some of them present a picture of what is already happening in local government. Some look to what more local authorities could do, either with additional powers or by using their existing powers and remit. All will challenge and extend your current thinking.

‘……In undertaking this review, we identified evidence and made recommendations in the key policy areas – the social determinants of health – where action is likely to be most effective in reducing health inequalities. These are:

• early child development and education
• employment arrangements and working conditions
• social protection
• the built environment
• sustainable development
• economic analysis
• delivery systems and mechanisms
• priority public health conditions
• social inclusion and social mobility.

In every single one of these areas, local government has a significant role to play. Local authorities make a very important contribution to weaving the social fabric of their areas and seeking to create and sustain healthy places for people to be born, grow, live, work and age. No review of health inequalities and measures to reduce them in this country can afford to ignore the role of local government…..”

Download summary and full versions of the publication

The Social Determinants of Health and the Role of Local Government – summary version (PDF, 4 pages, 480KB)

The Social Determinants of Health and the Role of Local Government – full version (PDF, 76 pages, 1.3MB large file)

Download individual chapters

Foreward and introduction (PDF, 7 pages, 315KB)

Chapter 1: What makes people healthy and what makes them ill? (PDF, 5 pages, 115KB)

Chapter 2: Using the concept of 'place' to understand and reduce health inequalities (PDF, 10 pages, 287KB)

Chapter 3: Making a difference: using NICE guidance and embedding evaluation (PDF, 5 pages, 154KB)

Chapter 4: The changing public health workforce (PDF, 3 pages, 106KB)

Chapter 5: Greenwich – health is everybody's business (PDF, 2 pages, 124KB)

Chapter 6: North East Lincolnshire – integrating public health with local government (PDF, 2 pages, 99KB)

Chapter 7: Embedding health in a vision of 'Total Place' (PDF, 2 pages, 132KB)

Chapter 8: Local Government – what does it mean for the frontline? (PDF, 14 pages, 200KB)

Chapter 9: Local public health intelligence (PDF, 3 pages, 106KB)

Chapter 10: Inequalities, assets and local government (PDF, 3 pages, 141KB)

Chapter 11: Integrating social marketing into what we do (PDF, 3 pages, 134KB)

Chapter 12: The enforcement role of local government as a tool for health (PDF, 2 pages, 105KB)

Chapter 13: Health impact assessment (PDF, 2 pages, 107KB)

Chapter 14: Using scrutiny to improve health and reduce health inequalities (PDF, 2 pages, 98KB)

Chapter 15: The local authority as employer (PDF, 2 pages, 108KB)



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