The Making of Global Health Governance

How do certain policy issues come to be regarded as "global"? Whose responsibility is it to address them? Why do new global organizations emerge, and how do they interact with the existing system of national and international policymaking? This book takes a unique approach to these questions by focusing on four entities: a globalizing sector (health), a global disease (HIV/AIDS), a global organization (the Global Fund), and a major sovereign nation (China). Assessing the interplay among these four entities, Nicole A. Szlezak asks and investigates how we can design a system of global governance that is both fair and effective.

Nicole A. Szlezak was a research fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard from 2003 to 2008, where she completed the research on which this book is based. Since then, she has been working for an international management consulting firm, where she advises clients in the health care domain on topics of strategy and organizational development. Szlezak has also worked as a clinical researcher for malaria and other tropical diseases. Her main interests are in the interconnections of science, policy (particularly health policy), and society. Her recent academic writing has been published in PLoS Medicine, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Nature Medicine, and the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS). She holds an MPA and PhD in Public Policy from Harvard, a medical degree from Humboldt University Berlin, and a Dr. med. degree from the University of Tubingen, Germany.