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The Changing Nature of Health Diplomacy (E575)

This course will explore the changing nature of Health Diplomacy. It will analyse the interaction between foreign policy and public health in a global world and the ways countries and international organizations have adapted their responses. Key dimensions of health diplomacy will receive special attention and be discussed using both historical and recent cases.

 

3rd of March Historical perspective: the changing nature of health- the changing nature of diplomacy
History of health diplomacy   
The 21st centuries challenges from a global health diplomacy perspective
17th of March Global health security: understanding a new concept
The World health report 2007   
Health diplomacy and avian influenza and SARS
31st of March Diplomatic efforts to enact international health measures, treaties and conventions
 The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control   
The International Health Regulations
14th of April Health in foreign policy: hard security and soft power: (examples, approaches and perspectives)
The Oslo declaration
USA and Europe
28th of April Health in foreign policy: hard security and soft power: (examples, approaches and perspectives)
Public health diplomacy in Cuba
China in Africa 
5th of May National Global health policies
The Swiss health Foreign Policy
The English Global Health Strategy
19th of May 21st century diplomacy
Morning session: Global health diplomacy through networks and alliances
Afternoon: Public diplomacy and advocacy

 

The course will be conducted in 14 sessions on seven Mondays. Participants are expected to prepare short discussion papers for sessions, contribute actively and write an end of term analysis of a key global health policy issue or approach.

Representatives of international organizations and other global health actors will be invited to contribute to sessions to allow students to discuss with decision makers in global health governance.

 

Some readings:

Historical perspective: the changing nature of health- the changing nature of diplomacy

Ilona Kickbusch, Gaudenz Silberschmidt & Paulo Buss: Global health diplomacy: the need for new perspectives, strategic approaches and skills in global health. In: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. March 2007

Oslo Ministerial declaration: global health a pressing foreign policy issue of our time. The Lancet, April 2, 2007

The World Health Report 2007: A safer future: Global Public health security in the 21st century

 

The Global Health Challenge: strategic uncertainty 

Kickbusch I, Lister G, editors. European perspectives on global health: A policy glossary. Brussels (Belgium): European Foundation Center. 2006. available online: http://www.efc.be/ftp/public/ic/Health/EFC_EPGH_GlobalHealthGlossary.pdf

McMichael, Tony and Robert Beaglehole. “The Global Context for Public Health”. In Global Public Health: A New Era.  Edited by Robert Beaglehole.  (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2003.


Health and foreign policy: a new approach

Cooper R. The breaking of nations. Order and chaos in the 21st century. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press; 2003

Berridge GR. Diplomacy. Theory and practice. London and New York: Palgrave, Macmillan; 2005.

Slaughter AM. A new world order. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press; 2004.

Kickbusch I. Global health governance: some new theoretical considerations on the new political space. In: Lee K, editor. Globalization and health. London: Palgrave; 2003:192-203.

Agreement on foreign health policy objectives. Adopted by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs in Berne, Switzerland, on 9 October 2006. Available from: www.bag.admin.ch/international.

 

The Global Health Challenge: a governance failure?

Garrett L. Do No Harm. The Global Health Challenge. In: Foreign Affairs. January February 2007 page 14-38

Debate on Garrett go to: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/special/global_health/

“Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development”. Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Presented to Gro Harlem Bruntland, Director-General of the World Health Organization, 20 December 2001.  Executive Summary

Sachs Easterly Debate go to: http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/dri/Easterly/SachsDebates.htm