Edited by Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the Global Health Centre (GHC) and Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Institute, Michaela Told, Executive Director of the GHC, and Thea Emmerling, Minister Counselor at the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to the United States of America, The European Union as a Global Health Actor provides a systematic collection of EU actors, EU policy and EU actions in global health and answers key questions on governance of the EU and its policy processes.
The book starts with an introduction to the EU as a global actor and continues to outline the historical development and the treaty basis for health, including the Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties. It also discusses the Commission’s global health communication and the subsequent Council conclusions on global health. Both documents define EU values in global health and identify the future priorities for global health action in the EU. Four of the five priorities are then described from the perspective of a different country experience. Various contributions consider the opportunities for research and provide an overview of the political, legal and financial instruments available to the EU. The book also explores the global health architecture and processes within which the EU is acting, namely at the WHO, in the different multilateral organisations and in international treaties and regulations. Finally, it addresses the importance of policy coherence at the national level and provides a critical viewpoint on the EU as a global health actor.
Contributers also include Tomas Baert, Samantha Battams, Jorge Castila, Lourdes Chamorro, Nicoletta Dentico, Juan Garay, Annika Herbel, Didier Houssin, Knud-Erik Jørgensen, Stephen A. Matlin, Davide Mosca, Arne Niemann, Canice Nolan, Remco van de Pas, Andrzej Rys, Louise van Schaik, Jean-Olivier Schmidt, Caroline Schultz and Yonatan Schvartzman.
The European Union as a Global Health Actor will assist practitioners working in policy making and international negotiations affecting health, as well as students and researchers, to create a better understanding of the European Union, its role in global health, and the uniqueness and specificity of the EU as a global health actor. Such a collection of contributions in this form and from this particular health policy perspective is not yet found elsewhere on the market.
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- Full reference: Emmerling, Thea, Ilona Kickbusch, and Michaela Told, eds. The European Union as a Global Health Actor. Global Health Diplomacy 4. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2016.