With the Paul Wolfowitz era behind it and new appointee Robert Zoellick at the helm, it is time for the World Bank to … better define its role in an increasingly crowded and complex global health architecture, says Jennifer Prah Ruger, health … economist and former World Bank speechwriter …

Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (GSPOA), adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2008 … public goods for global health, particularly for those disadvantaged by destitution and disease. The WHO Global Strategy and …, calls for an “enhanced and sustainable basis for needs-driven, essential health research and development relevant to …

health. Papers in the special issue include Solidarity in Contemporary Bioethics – Towards a New Approach by Barbara … Prainsack and Alena Buyx; A Dialectic of Cooperation and Competition: Solidarity and Universal Health Care Provision by Samuel … Proposals by Ben Saunders; and Global Solidarity, Migration and Global Health Inequality by Lisa Eckenwiler, Christine Straehle …

This paper discusses shifts in development assistance for health (DAH) since 1990, analyses the nature of the current … an ‘essential functions’ framework, which provides a function-based taxonomy for global collective action in health, and … questions about the future balance of essential functions of global health. …

To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank remain central today … course of global governance in health, trade, and development finance has changed irreversibly. Second, regional arrangements …. Fifth, the new architecture can be described as one of diversification in global health governance, fragmentation in global …

Global Health 2035, the report of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious … framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. It showed that with the right health investments …, the international community could achieve a “grand convergence” in global health — a reduction in avertable infectious …