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Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Private Actors in Global Health Governance

    1. Private Actors in Global Health Governance

      • Owain David Williams, Simon Rushton
      Pages 1-25
  3. Cross-Cutting Themes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
    2. Co-Opting the Global Health Agenda: The Problematic Role of Partnerships and Foundations

      • Todd Faubion, Sarah B. Paige, Amber L. Pearson
      Pages 209-227
  4. Coda

    1. Coda

      • Owain David Williams, Simon Rushton
      Pages 253-267
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 268-308

About this book

This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a 'private turn' in global health governance, and provides theoretical and practical grounds for viewing global health partnerships and philanthropic foundations as closely aligned in their ideational and material approaches to a range of important issues and crises.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Health and International Relations, Aberystwyth University, UK

    Simon Rushton, Owain David Williams

About the editors

AMY BARNES is a PhD researcher in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK. SONJA BARTSCH is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. GARRETT WALLACE BROWN is Senior Lecturer in Global Political Theory and Global Ethics in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK. TODD FAUBION is a health geographer whose research focuses on the political economy of treatment access for people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa. BRIGITTE HAMM is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. REBECCA HANLIN is Lecturer in Development Policy and Practice at the Open University, UK, and Director of Health Innovation at the ESRC Innogen Centre, UK. ELENA HESSELMANN studies Political Science at the University of Münster, Germany. PETER S. HILL is a public health physician and academic at the School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Australia. DAVID MCCOY is a doctor and public health specialist at the National Health Service and University College London, UK. LINSEY MCGOEY is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. MICHAEL MORAN is Researcher at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. SARAH PAIGE is Medical Geographer at the University of Washington, USA. AMBER L. PEARSON is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University ofWashington, USA. CORNELIA ULBERT is Executive Director of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. JEREMY YOUDE is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA.

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