Global Health Security

Program Publications

• July 23, 2012
  The International AIDS Conference 2012
  

  This week, the eyes of the health community will be on Washington, DC, as the United States hosts the International AIDS Conference for the first time in 22 years. While the conference

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• July 16, 2012 / By David Michel, Russell Sticklor, Rupert Herbert-Burns, Caitlyn Antrim, Halae Fuller, Lindsay Dolan
  Indian Ocean Rising: Maritime Security and Policy Challenges
  

  The Indian Ocean is rapidly emerging as a key focus of international politics. Its strategic energy reserves and natural resources, the growing importance of its ports and shipping

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• June 21, 2012 / By Rebecca Katz
  Costing Framework for International Health Regulations (2005)
  

  The revised International Health Regulations (IHR [2005]) conferred new responsibilities on member states of the World Health Organization, requiring them to develop core capacities to

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• January 09, 2012 / By Karen Masterson
  Two Malarias
  

  The November 2011 newsletter of Roll Back Malaria - a partnership sponsored by the World Health Organization, the United Nations and the World Bank - contains the following headline:

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• December 16, 2011 / By Meghan Seltzer
  Biological Weapons Under Review at the BTWC
  

  The Seventh Review Conference of the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention (BTWC) is currently underway in Geneva, Switzerland, through December 22.  At this meeting, countries

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• November 30, 2011 / By Allen Moore
  Advancing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Farsi Version)
  

  The Stimson Center project, Iran and America: A Dialogue about Disability, held in partnership with BlueLaw International LLP, the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and Iranian

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• November 29, 2011 / By Allen Moore
  Advancing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A US-Iran Dialogue on Law, Policy, and Advocacy
  

  The Stimson Center project, Iran and America: A Dialogue about Disability, held in partnership with BlueLaw International LLP, the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and Iranian

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• October 17, 2011 / By Rebecca Katz
  The Rise of Health Diplomacy
  

  Around the world, global health increasingly has become a part of foreign policy agendas and is included in national security, trade, and diplomacy discussions. The SARS outbreak of

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• September 20, 2011 / By Rebecca Katz, Grace Arnold, Eric Lief
  Defining Health Diplomacy: Changing Demands in the Era of Globalization
  

  Stimson’s Global Health Security program, with Rebecca Katz of George Washington University, published a new analysis on Defining Health Diplomacy: Changing Demands in the Era of

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• September 20, 2011
  NCDs: Redefining Global Health Security for the 21st Century
  

  On September 19th, the United Nations General Assembly convened global leaders to confront an emerging health issue with major socioeconomic implications for only the second time in

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• August 15, 2011 / By Eric Lief, Jennifer Kates
  Financing the response to AIDS in low-income & middle-income countries
  

  The latest analysis of global AIDS assistance financing for 2010 has been released by UNAIDS and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report finds funding to have fallen in 2010,

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• June 22, 2011 / By Rebecca Katz
  The International Flow of Risk: The Governance of Health in an Urbanizing World
  

  In 2008, the world’s urban population exceeded its rural population for the first time. The United Nations estimates that about 15% of the world’s population now lives in “megacities” of

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• June 08, 2011
  A World Transformed:  Lessons from HIV/AIDS
  

  This week marks the 30^th year of living in a world transformed by awareness of AIDS - and of understanding that the devastating pandemic actually began decades earlier.

  This 30-year

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• June 02, 2011 / By Rebecca Katz
  The International Health Regulations (2005): Surveillance and Response in an Era of Globalization
  

  In an era of routine air travel and disease multipliers born of human behaviors, a public health crisis anywhere in the world is a potential problem everywhere.

  For over one hundred

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• March 09, 2011 / By Kevin Wickel
  Cooperative Threat Reduction: Reducing Biological Risks in East Africa
  

  In November 2010, Senator Richard Lugar and a team of Pentagon officials travelled to biological research facilities in Kenya and Uganda to highlight the regional bioterrorism threat.

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• March 07, 2011
  Containing Drug Resistant Malaria: the Risks of Weak Health Systems
  

  For decades, the global health community has sought affordable drugs to obliterate malaria-causing microbes - which include strains so virulent and fast acting they can kill a child the

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• February 09, 2011
  Comparative Analysis of National Legislation supporting the International Health Regulations
  

  In 2005, the World Health Organization adopted the revised International Health Regulations, or IHR (2005), to establish obligations for detecting and responding to public health

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• February 09, 2011
  The Revised International Health Regulations: A Framework for Global Pandemic Response
  

  The 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak tested the revised International Health Regulations [IHR (2005)] robustly for the first time. The IHR (2005) contributed to swift international

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• February 04, 2011 / By Claire Biason
  Governance and Scarcity: the Example of the Guaraní Aquifer
  

  With water scarcity one of the biggest looming challenges of the 21^st century, freshwater management will be crucial in coming years. Nations must agree on frameworks to protect and

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• January 18, 2011 / By Richard Cincotta
  Holding on to the One Child Policy: China’s Great Demographic Trade-Off
  

  Beijing's 2008 decision to maintain a somewhat liberalized version of its One-Child Policy surprised both Chinese and foreign demographers. Was the decision the product of a strategic

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• January 13, 2011 / By Tomohiko Makino, MD
  New Era for International Health Law? Health Security vs. Equity
  

  In late 2010, the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a new protocol to ensure the fair sharing of benefits derived from the use of genetic resources.  As

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• November 19, 2010
  The Cholera Quandary
  

  Cholera, an infection that ravaged populations in the 19^th century, is still a problem for the world's poor, and is currently menacing countries on three different continents.  What is

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• October 28, 2010 / By Vidal Seegobin
  The State of Sickness
  

  Analysis of health systems and outcomes, to date, has not been a part of traditional analysis of North Korea. Nevertheless, an examination of the health situation in the "hermit

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• July 24, 2009 / By Eric Lief, Jennifer Kates, Jonathan Pearson
  Donor Funding for Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2001-2007
  

  Official Development Assistance (ODA) from OECD-member countries, including the United States, accounts directly or indirectly for most external funding channeled to health in the

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• July 01, 2009 / By Eric Lief, Vidal Seegobin
  Mapping the United States Government Engagement in Global Public Health
  

  This report represents an effort to map the United States government’s engagement in global health activities as a basis for analysis and to help decision makers understand the scope and

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• May 09, 2009 / By Eric Lief
  The US Government’s Global Health Policy Architecture: Structure, Programs, and Funding
  

  Stimson Center Senior Associates Julie Fischer and Eric Lief collaborated in the preparation of a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation providing the first comprehensive look at

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• April 30, 2009 / By William Durch, Gordon Adams
  Presidential Inbox 2009: The First 100 Days
  

  The first 100 days of any administration are filled with tough choices and breaks from past policies. This administration is no different. In the lead-up to the election, Stimson

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• January 05, 2009
  Global Health Security: A Long-Term Prescription
  

  By Dr. Julie E. Fischer

  The Challenge

  We need a coherent global health strategy that looks beyond each crisis to the bigger picture. The 2003 SARS outbreak, when a new and virulent

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• December 08, 2008
  Global Health Security: A Long-term Prescription
  

  We need a coherent global health strategy that looks beyond each crisis to the bigger picture. The US has invested billions of dollars in confronting health threats abroad - one

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• September 05, 2008 / By Ellen Laipson, Jesper Gronvall
  New Information and Intelligence Needs in the 21st Century Threat Environment
  

  The Stimson Center, in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, explored how current information and intelligence systems support homeland security officials in

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• June 25, 2008 / By Astrid Bonfield, Eric Lief
  European Philanthropy and HIV/AIDS
  

  The Stimson Center, in collaboration with the European HIV/AIDS Funders Group, presents this report on European Philanthropy and HIV/AIDS funding. This analysis of HIV/AIDS spending by

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• April 26, 2006
  Stewardship or Censorship?
  

  Balancing Biosecurity, The Public’s Health, and The Benefits of Scientific Openness

  This book tackles the thorny issue of how several distinct communities – bioscience research, public

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• October 28, 2004
  Speaking Data to Power
  

  Science, Technology, and Health Expertise in the National Biological Security Policy Process

  Following the terrorist events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent anthrax assaults,

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• May 20, 2004
  Inching Away From Armageddon: Destroying the US Chemical Weapons Stockpile
  

  More than a decade ago, the United States committed to destroying its stockpile of aging chemical weapons.  Milestones for measuring progress under the Chemical Weapons Convention called

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• October 09, 2000 / By Amy Smithson, Leslie-Anne Levy
  Ataxia: The Chemical and Biological Terrorism Threat and the US Response
  

  Stimson Report 35 

  Ataxia is a comprehensive research report that examines the many facets of the unconventional terrorism issue in the United States. The first sections examine the

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• September 14, 1993 / By Amy Smithson
  The Chemical Weapons Convention Handbook
  

  Stimson Handbook 2

  The complexity of the Chemical Weapons Convention makes it difficult for newcomers to the art and science of chemical weapons arms control to become acquainted with

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