Global Health Governance After the Pandemic

About

The course explores key challenges in global health and evolving governance responses. The Covid-19 pandemic has made visible and exacerbated deficits in public health infrastructure, pandemic preparedness, and public accountability in global health governance. Promises of equity-oriented vaccine production and distribution were not kept, healthcare frontline workers were left without protection, and another wave of great healthcare worker resignation and migration has been observed. Women are most severely affected by these trends through precarious employment or volunteering as carers, and as they lose access to basic services when the public sector is curtailed through austerity measures. At the global institutions level, the WHO has tried to offer public coordination and leadership but is highly dependent on donor states and private actors and searching for its role amidst a dynamic landscape of public private partnerships.

Course leader

Tine Hanrieder (London School of Economics)

Target group

The IBEI Summer School in Global Politics and Policy is a program designed for graduate students and all those who have an interest in advanced knowledge of international security, international development and global politics issues. The objective is to offer different short courses on significant topics, taught by scholars and experts of international prestige. The School will enable participants to broadly discuss current developments in world politics in the light of core social-science and IR theories and perspectives.
Optionally, students may ask for an assessment in order to be able to obtain ECTS credits, provided they are recognized by their university. The 2023 edition of the IBEI Summer School in Global Politics and Policy is taking place in face to face format.

Course aim

The course explores key challenges in global health and evolving governance responses. The Covid-19 pandemic has made visible and exacerbated deficits in public health infrastructure, pandemic preparedness, and public accountability in global health governance. Promises of equity-oriented vaccine production and distribution were not kept, healthcare frontline workers were left without protection, and another wave of great healthcare worker resignation and migration has been observed. Women are most severely affected by these trends through precarious employment or volunteering as carers, and as they lose access to basic services when the public sector is curtailed through austerity measures. At the global institutions level, the WHO has tried to offer public coordination and leadership but is highly dependent on donor states and private actors and searching for its role amidst a dynamic landscape of public private partnerships.

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