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 […]

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 […]

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 […]