Global Health NOW: Health and Diplomacy: Q&A with Rebecca Katz and Julie Fischer “Health-preparedness experts Rebecca Katz and Julie Fischer have bridged health and diplomacy for more than a decade, helping nearly two dozen countries work across borders to prepare for and prevent potential disease outbreaks and pandemics. The two…

Global Health Governance: Fall 2016 Issue This issue of Global Health Governance features articles on a variety of global health governance topics including developing and mapping foreign affairs and global public health competencies; assessing tripartite partnerships among multilateral health agencies, ministries of health, and civil society, and examining their role…

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Treat global health crises the same way as national security crises, panel says Rabita Aziz, policy research coordinator for the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses remarks made by panelists at the launch of a Brenthurst Foundation report on the West African Ebola…

Devex: What do Ban Ki-moon, Justin Trudeau, Usher, and Bill Gates have in common? Global health diplomacy Gabrielle Fitzgerald, an executive in the philanthropic and global health fields, and Peter Small, founding director of the Global Health Institute at Stony Brook University “…Much of the progress we have seen recently…

World Policy Blog: Science Diplomacy and U.S.-Cuban Relations Bernabé Malacalza, a researcher in international relations at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina, based at the National University of Quilmes, discusses “Cuban health diplomacy” and science diplomacy between Cuba and the U.S. Malacalza writes that scientific cooperation…

Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. Government and Global Health This updated fact sheet examines the U.S. government’s global health response. “…In addition to acting as a donor by providing financial and other health-related development assistance (e.g., commodities, like contraceptives) to low- and middle-income countries, the USG operates programs and delivers…

Huffington Post: Here’s Why ‘Brexit’ Could Be A British Public Health Disaster “In a final tally of 52 percent to 48 percent on the ‘Brexit’ referendum Thursday, Britons voted to exit the European Union, a decision that many believed hinged on voter opinion about immigration. … The public health risks…

CNBC: U.S. announces health collaboration with Cuba; will coordinate on diseases, R&D “The United States said Monday it will collaborate with Cuba on health issues, the latest step in an historic rapprochement between the one-time bitter adversaries. An agreement between the U.S. and Cuba calls for ‘coordination across a broad…

Associated Press: Taiwan minister hopes to work with China on health issues “Taiwan hopes to work with China to help improve the health of people ‘on both sides of the Taiwan Strait’ and is engaging more with the world to fight viruses like Zika, MERS, Ebola, and dengue, the Taiwanese…

Washington Post: Things have never been better? Jennifer Rubin, opinion writer at the Washington Post “…[W]ealth creation alone does not automatically result in healthier and richer people around the globe. It takes both public efforts such as George W. Bush’s President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief, which has saved millions…