The Rise of Health Diplomacy
By Sarah Kornblet, Julie E. Fischer and Rebecca Katz – 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 2003 and the 2009 H1N1 influenza A pandemic show how quickly emerging infections can spread, costing lives […]
Global Health Security Program Publishes Analysis on Health Diplomacy in the Milbank Quarterly
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 Globalization in the new issue of the Milbank Quarterly. In this article, the authors describe the context, practice, and components of global health diplomacy, as applied operationally. They examine […]
Study Co-Authored by Eric Lief Cited by Desmond Tutu Op-Ed
A Desmond Tutu op-ed cited Financing the Response to AIDS in Low-Income & Middle-Income Countries, a 2010 study co-authored by Stimson Senior Associate Eric Lief and Jen Kates of the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report found that funding has fallen in 2010, following a string of double-digit-percentage increases over a decade and flat funding in 2009.
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 Globalization in the new issue of the Milbank Quarterly. In this article, the authors describe the context, practice, and components of global health diplomacy, as applied operationally. They examine […]
New report finds global HIV/AIDS assistance has dropped to middle- and low- income countries
A new report co-authored by Stimson Senior Advisor Eric Lief with the Kaiser Family Foundation finds funding to have fallen in 2010, following a string of double-digit-percentage increases over a decade and flat funding in 2009. Read the complete set of reports.
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, following a string of double-digit-percentage increases over a decade and flat funding in 2009. Stimson Center Senior Advisor Eric Lief co-authored the analyses for 2007, 2008, 2009 and […]
Julie Fischer authors article on the health challenges facing growing urban areas in the future
Julie Fischer and Rebecca Katz author an article for the current issue of Global Health Governance on the international flow of risk. Read the complete article.
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 10 million or more people, or in near-megacities of 5-10 million. Three-quarters of the megacities are in low- and middle-income nations, where rural-to-urban migration will […]