Global Health Diplomacy

Ilona Kickbusch is the Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She advises organisations, government agencies and the private sector on policies and strategies to promote health at the national, European and international level. She has published widely and is a member of a number of advisory boards in both the academic and the health policy arena. She has received many awards and served as the Adelaide Thinker in Residence at the invitation of the Premier of South Australia. She has recently launched a think-tank initiative "Global Health Europe: A Platform for European Engagement in Global Health" and the "Consortium for Global Health Diplomacy". Her key areas of interest are global health governance, global health diplomacy, health in all policies, the health society and health literacy. She has had a distinguished career with the World Health Organization, at both the regional and global level, where she initiated the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and a range of "settings projects" including Healthy Cities. From 1998 - 2003 she joined Yale University as the head of the global health division, where she contributed to shaping the field of global health and headed a major Fulbright programme. She is a political scientist with a PhD from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Nick Drager, former Director of the Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights at the World Health Organization, is Honorary Professor, Global Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Professor of Practice of Public Policy and Global Health Diplomacy at McGill University. His work focuses on current and emerging public health issues related to globalization and health, especially global health diplomacy/governance, foreign policy and international trade and health. He is also Senior Fellow at the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He serves as chair, keynote speaker at numerous international conferences; he lectures at Universities in Europe, North America and Asia; and is the author of numerous papers, editorials, and books in the area of global health and development. He has an M.D. from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva.

From the book reviews: "The intent of the book's 22 chapters is to highlight all aspects of the concept of 'global health diplomacy' (GHD) and to delineate the challenges and opportunities offered by this new concept and buzzword. ... Its format is very much handbook-oriented, providing guidelines and learning points at the beginning, and questions at the end of each chapter, making the book very accessible. ... the edited book is a welcome trailblazer in the field of GHD." (Alexia J. Duten, Medicine Conflict and Survival, January, 2015)

• 1. Global Health Diplomacy: An Introduction.- 2. Current Issues in Global Health Diplomacy.- 3. The History and evolution of global health diplomacy.- 4. Global Health Law.- 5. The New Dynamics of Global Health Governance.- 6. The Process and Practice of Negotiation.- 7. Human Rights and Equity: The Value Base of Global Health Diplomacy.- 8. New diplomacy for health: a global public goods perspective.- 9. Diplomacy and Global Health Security.- 10. Global Environmental Diplomacy: Comparing and Sharing.- 11. Global Trade and Health Diplomacy: Maximizing Cooperation and Minimizing Conflict through Coherent International Rules.- 12. The World Health Organization as a key venue for global health diplomacy.- 13. Instruments of global health governance at the World Health Organization.- 14. Instruments for Global Health Diplomacy in the UN System beyond the WHO.- 15. Global Health Diplomacy at the United Nations General Assembly.- 16. The EU as an actor in Global Health Diplomacy.- 17. The G8/G20 and Global Health Governance: extended fragmentation or a new hub of coordination.- 18. Civil Society Organizations, Global Health Governance and Public Diplomacy.- 19. Health is Global: A UK Government Strategy 2008/13.- 20. National Strategies for Global Health.- 21. Power shifts in Global Health Diplomacy and New Models of Development: South-South cooperation.- 22. Reflection: The Copernican Revolution: The changing relationship between foreign policy and health.