Global Health Policy - Related Publication

Global Health Interventions for U.S. Food and Drug Safety

jdunton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

In 2007, a series of high-profile scandals involving contaminated blood thinner, toxic toothpaste, and melamine-laced pet food demonstrated the threat that unsafe food and drug imports pose to U.S. public health and international trade. Contaminated and adulterated products have sickened and killed U.S. consumers, fueled protectionism, raised business costs, and destabilized markets.

The European Approach to Global Health

jdunton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The advent of the Obama administration offers an important opportunity to launch a serious dialogue on strengthening transatlantic collaboration on global health issues. This dialogue will require high-level commitment and engagement from both Europe and the United States. And it will naturally emanate from each side’s internal processes and strategic approach to global health.

China’s Health amidst the Global Economic Crisis

jdunton — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The current economic crisis has hit China hard. China's high savings rate is a significant deterrent to boosting domestic consumption, and with little sign of a resumption of global demand for Chinese exports, the leadership recognized early in the crisis that it needed to take aggressive action to ensure growth from alternative sources.

U.S.-Russia Collaboration on Health

jdunton — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Despite a decade of pre-financial-crisis economic growth, Russia continues to suffer from health challenges unprecedented for an advanced industrial society in peacetime. The persistence of these maladies remains a mystery, and their magnitude and nature are reported unevenly in the Western media. Recent Kremlin domestic health policy initiatives hint at promising new directions.

International Family Planning

jdunton — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The election of Barack Obama has fundamentally changed the landscape for the debates around U.S. support for international family planning (FP) programs.

Using Measurement to Drive Results

jdunton — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

We are in the midst of a major transition in the core U.S. goals for global health. During the period 2003–2008, the predominant goal was to respond to a health emergency, through large-scale, dramatic, single-disease initiatives: the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and subsequently the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI).

Influenza Outbreak in Mexico

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Q1: Why are public health officials concerned about the current influenza outbreak in Mexico?

Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The United States’ geographic proximity to Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as its extensive trade, migration, and border relationships with countries in the hemisphere, make addressing health issues in the Americas a matter of national interest.

U.S. National Security and Global Health

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Despite a broadening consensus that global health care efforts have an impact on national and global security, the U.S. national security community’s efforts to address global health are weak and uncoordinated.

Public Health in Africa

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Nowhere are global public health challenges more acute than in sub-Saharan Africa. With just 13 percent of the world’s population, this region carries 24 percent of the global burden of disease. The continent’s immense disease burden and frail health systems are embedded in a broader context of poverty, underdevelopment, conflict, and weak or ill-managed government institutions.