Textbook of Global Health

Anne-Emanuelle Birn is Professor of Critical Development Studies (UTSC) and Social and Behavioural Health Sciences (Dalla Lana School of Public Health) at the University of Toronto, where she served as Canada Research Chair in International Health from 2003 to 2013. She is widely published in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Africa; her books include: Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico (2006); and Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home (2013). Professor Birn's honors include Fulbright and Rotary fellowships, election to the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, and numerous endowed lectureships across the Americas and Asia. In 2014 she was recognized among the top 100 Women Leaders in Global Health. Yogan Pillay is Deputy Director General for HIV, Tuberculosis, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Programmes in the National Department of Health, South Africa. He has 20 years' experience in theplanning and implementation of health system reforms and has published widely on the topics of HIV, tuberculosis, and health systems. Timothy H. Holtz is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. His field experience has focused on infectious disease epidemiology and disease control, and he has worked with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a consultant to the World Health Organization. From 2002-2010 Dr. Holtz worked in southern Africa, Eastern Europe, and South America on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis control and tuberculosis/HIV program capacity building. He is an internationally recognized expert on the emerging threat of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance and was part of the team of scientists that discovered extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB). He has also directed an HIV prevention clinical trial research program in Thailand, and an HIV and TB technical assistance program inIndia. He is a founding member of Doctors for Global Health, a health and social justice nongovernmental organization with projects in the U.S., Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.

[P]rovides an important focus on the political economy of health and highlights the importance of a social-justice approach, incorporating the social and political economies of LMICs, to building healthy societies.

• Praise for the Textbook of Global Health Preface: Why Global Health? Acknowledgements About the Authors 1. The Historical Origins of Modern International Health2. Between International and Global Health: Contextualizing the Present 3. Political Economy of Health and Development4. Global Health Actors and Activities 5. Data on Health: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know, and Why Does it Matter6. Epidemiologic Profiles of Global Health and Disease7. Health Equity and the Societal Determinants of Health 8. Health under Crises and the Limits to Humanitarianism9. Globalization, Trade, Work, and Health10. Health and the Environment 11. Understanding and Organizing Health Care Systems 12. Health Economics and the Politics of Health Financing13. Building Healthy Societies: From Ideas to Action14. Social Justice Approaches to Global Health Index