Moving Health Sovereignty in Africa Disease, Governance, Climate Change
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Biographical note
John J. Kirton is the co-director of the Global Health Diplomacy Program, based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at Trinity College in the University of Toronto, and a professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He is also the director of the G8 Research Group and co-director of the G20 Research Group. Andrew F. Cooper is a professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the department of political science at the University of Waterloo. He is also an associate research fellow at the UNU CRIS, the United Nations University’s Institute on Comparative Regional Integration, in Bruges, Belgium. Franklyn Lisk is a visiting professorial research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick and a senior associate at the Center for Research on Political Economy in Dakar, Senegal. Hany Besada is a senior fellow at the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa, an adjunct research professor with the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University, and a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. He served as a research specialist for the secretariat of the United Nations High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.’A timely and much needed analysis of a continent undergoing rapid transition resulting in complex health consequences. Africa's experiences of globalization are poorly understood so far, yet need to be urgently grappled with for effective governance to be built locally and regionally. This book takes us neatly forward in this task.’ Kelley Lee, Simon Fraser University, Canada and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK ’The governance of global health now requires a profound transformation, to accommodate the accelerating health challenges from a world defined by intense globalization, the growing recognition of the close connections between health and climate change, and the tightening links between global and regional governance. Nowhere are these dynamics more acute than in Africa, which still struggles with the burden of HIV/AIDS, neglected tropical diseases and maternal health. This book insightfully charts these new dynamics and identifies possible governance solutions, many of them beyond the health sector. It is a most timely contribution, as the world moves to meet the Millennium Development Goals in 2015 and to shape improved sustainable development goals for the years beyond.’ Ilona Kickbusch, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland This book is a very interesting and important analysis of the evolving health challenges of Africa, how these are being addressed and the problems of evolving a new and integrative system of aid and healthcare reform within the constraints of the established regimes in the different countries, and the continuing constraints of ’third world’ economies. Medicine, conflict and Survival