BMC Globalization and Health: Chile’s role in global health diplomacy: a narrative literature review Jorge Ramírez, assistant professor at the University of Chile’s School of Public Health, and colleagues conducted a “literature review of the driving forces behind Chile’s integration of health into foreign policy” at three levels: international/global, regional,…

Public Health Reports: Global Health Security: Protecting the United States in an Interconnected World Rebecca E. Bunnell, deputy director for science and policy at the Division of Global Health Protection at the CDC, and colleagues discuss how CDC’s health security efforts help protect U.S. health, safety, and economic interests. The…

IntraHealth International’s “Vital”: Safety for Frontline Health Workers Paramount to Ebola Response and Global Health Security Carol Bales, advocacy and policy communications manager at IntraHealth International, and Vince Blaser, director at Frontline Health Workers Coalition, discuss the role and challenges of health workers in containing the Ebola outbreak in northeastern…

Homeland Preparedness News: HHS officials reaffirm support for Global Health Security Agenda “Officials from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department attended the Fifth Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) Ministerial Meeting in Indonesia this week to reaffirm U.S. support for the initiative and commit additional funding. … The U.S. delegation…

HHS: GHSA Ministerial Meeting: Secretary Alex Azar Plenary Video In this video message, U.S. HHS Secretary Alex Azar offers remarks to the Global Health Security Agenda Ministerial Meeting taking place this week in Indonesia. Azar says, “As we launch GHSA 2024, we need to determine how, over the next five…

Center for Strategic & International Studies: Global Health Policy Center Monthly Newsletter: November 2018 In the November 2018 CSIS Global Health Policy Center Newsletter, J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president of CSIS and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, highlights publications, podcasts, and past and upcoming events hosted…

Infectious Disease Society of America: IDSA Urges Strengthened U.S. Leadership of Global Health Security Agenda “As Global Health Security Agenda partners meet in Indonesia this week to commit to their next steps in improving epidemic readiness worldwide, the Infectious Diseases Society of America is asking the U.S. Department of Health…

HHS: U.S. Government Participates in Fifth Annual Global Health Security Agenda Ministerial Meeting “On November 4-6, 2018, Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan will attend the Fifth Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) Ministerial Meeting in Indonesia, which will officially launch the next five-year phase of GHSA, known as…

Statesman: McRaven and McCaul: National Security Dimensions of Global Food Insecurity Bill McRaven, retired Navy four-star admiral and former chancellor of the University of Texas system, and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) “…Global hunger is a major national security concern. … With a population bulge already under way in sub-Saharan Africa…

The Hill: WHO says recent Ebola outbreak not a global emergency “The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in two eastern provinces of Congo does not rise to the level of a global public health emergency. But the group said it is…