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.
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. …
By Julie E. Fischer – This week marks the 30th 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 marker recognizes that on 5 June 1981, CDC publi …
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 years, nations have negotiated measures to prevent cross-border diseas …
By Kevin Wickel – 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. The Department of Defense has subsequently announc …
By Karen Masterson – 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 same day symptoms appear. Africans are the mo …
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 notification, allowing nations to implement their pandemic preparedness pla …
In 2005, the World Health Organization adopted the revised InternationalHealth Regulations, or IHR (2005), to establish obligationsfor detecting and responding to public health emergencies ofinternational concern. The success of the IHR (2005) rests on …
Greater economic integration, changing human behavior and technological innovation present unique challenges for the 21st century. Constituting a web of interdependency and transfer of risk, the Global Health Security team aims to examine contemporary, …
The sustainable finance for health arm of the Global Health Security teams works to produce quantitative analysis of a growing and changing donor landscape as it pertains to sustainable development financing, health and security.
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 international law, the “Nagoya Protocol” could affect not only …
Eric Lief is quoted in the Austin American-Statesman analyzing George W. Bush’s statement that his administration doubled its financial commitment to fighting global AIDS. Read the full story here: https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/dec/1 …
Cholera, an infection that ravaged populations in the 19th century, is still a problem for the world’s poor, and is currently menacing countries on three different continents. What is needed to control cholera is not just clean water, but the wil …
By Vidal Seegobin – 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 kingdom” paints a very stark picture that casts doubt …
Having the evidence that global health interventions actually work and work cost-effectively gives policymakers and donors a guide to wise investments in global health. Global health success will come more quickly and efficiently when the guess work ab …
Published October 13, 2010 / Held October 13, 2010
As the US government redefines its global health engagement strategies, policy makers increasingly embrace the need to help partner nations strengthen health systems and build public health surveillance and response capabilities. Although many in the f …
Published September 27, 2010 / Held September 27, 2010
Welcome! The purpose of the IHR portal is to serve as a ‘One Stop Shop’ resource and a virtual forum for all information related to the International Health Regulations (2005). You will find news, research, and information on implementation of the IHR …
Financing the response to AIDS in low-income and middle-income countries: International assistance from the G8, European Commission and other donor Governments By Jennifer Kates (Kaiser Family Foundation) and Eric Lief (The Henry L. Stimson Cent …
Julie Fischer testifed before the House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology on June 16. Read her testimony here.
Dr. Julie Fischer comments on joint AU/Stimson launch of Buying National Security, How America Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home. This book provides a roadmap for readers on how national security budgets come together, de-mystifying …
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 developing world, and as such constitutes a major component of the globa …
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 organization of programs, policies, authorities, funding and coor …
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 the US government agencies and programs involved in the nation’s gl …
The Stimson Center, in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, explored how current information and intelligence systems support homeland security officials in the United States and the European Union with the release of the …
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 European foundations, trusts and charities in 2005/6, draws on …
When Canada hosted the G8 Summit in Kananaskis in 2002, it brought to the table a long and innovative history in the fields of foreign assistance and public international health that, if leveraged, could produce significant advances to the dual threats …
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 health, and national security – relate to each other in the complic …
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, policymakers and the public found themselves confronted with the sudd …