Required reading before the course starts
Adam, B. D., 2011. Epistemic fault lines in biomedical and social approaches to HIV prevention. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 14 (Suppl 2), S2.
Birn, A.-E., 2009. The Stages of International (Global) Health: Histories of Success or Successes of History? Global Public Health, 4(1): 50-68
Farmer, P., Kim, J., Kleinman, A., & Basilico, M., 2013. Introduction: A Bio-Social Approach to Global Health. In: Farmer et. al (Eds.). Reimagining global health: an introduction (Vol. 26), 1-14. University of California Press.
Pablos-Mendez, A., Cavanaugh, K., & Ly, C., 2016. The new era of health goals: universal health coverage as a pathway to the Sustainable Development Goals. Health Systems & Reform, 2(1), 15-17.
Storeng, K. T., 2014. The GAVI Alliance and the “Gates approach” to health system strengthening. Global Public Health, 9(8), 865–879.
World Health Organization, 2015. Health in 2015: From MDGs to SDGs. General introduction, 1-13. http://www.who.int/gho/publications/mdgs-sdgs/MDGs-SDGs2015_chapter1.pdf?ua=1
United Nations General Assembly, 2015. Goal 3. In: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (p. 16–17). Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015.
Recommended readings. The students choose min. 300 pages
Health system
Stuckler, D. and McKee M., 2008. Five metaphors about global-health policy. Lancet, 372:95–97.
Brugha et al, 2014. Understanding global health policy. In Brown et al (eds): The handbook of global health policy. Malden: Wiley Blackwell.
Ghaffar et al, 2016. Where is the policy in health policy and systems research agenda. Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
Epidemic preparedness
Moon, S., Sridhar, D., Pate, M. A., Jha, A. K., Clinton, C., Delaunay, S., ... & Goosby, E. (2015). Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola. The Lancet, 386(10009), 2204-2221.
Garrett, L. (2015). Ebola's lessons: how the WHO mishandled the crisis. Foreign Aff., 94, 80.
Ottersen, T., Hoffman, S. J., & Groux, G. (2016). Ebola Again Shows the International Health Regulations Are Broken What Can Be Done Differently to Prepare for the Next Epidemic?. American Journal of Law & Medicine, 42(2-3), 356-392.
Antimicrobial resistance
Dar, O.A., Hasan, R., Schlundt, J., Harbarth, S., Caleo, G., Dar, F.K., Littmann, J., Rweyemamu, M., Buckley, E.J., Shahid, M. and Kock, R., 2016. Exploring the evidence base for national and regional policy interventions to combat resistance. The Lancet, 387(10015), pp.285-295.
Das, P., & Horton, R., 2016. Antibiotics: achieving the balance between access and excess. The Lancet, 387(10014),102-104.
Hoffman et al 2015. Strategies for achieving global collective action on antimicrobial resistance. Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Mendelson, M., R?ttingen, J. A., Gopinathan, U., Hamer, D. H., Wertheim, H., Basnyat, B.. & Balasegaram, M., 2016. Maximising access to achieve appropriate human antimicrobial use in low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet, 387(10014), 188-198.
Outterson, K., Gopinathan, U., Clift, C., So, A. D., Morel, C. M., & R?ttingen, J. A. (2016). Delinking Investment in Antibiotic Research and Development from Sales Revenues: The Challenges of Transforming a Promising Idea into Reality. PLoS Med, 13(6), e1002043.
?rdal, C., K. Outterson, S.J. Hoffman, A. Ghafur, M. Sharland, et al., 2016. International cooperation to improve access to and sustain effectiveness of antimicrobials, Lancet, 387(10015):296–307.
Global health financing
Jamison, D. T., Summers, L. H., Alleyne, G., Arrow, K. J., Berkley, S., Binagwaho, A. & Ghosh, G., 2013. Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation. The Lancet, 382(9908), 1898-1955.
Dieleman, J. L., Graves, C. M., Templin, T., Johnson, E., Baral, R., Leach-Kemon, K. & Murray, C. J. (2014). Global health development assistance remained steady in 2013 but did not align with recipients’ disease burden. Health Affairs, 33(5), 878-886.
Dieleman, J. L., Schneider, M. T., Haakenstad, A., Singh, L., Sadat, N., Birger, M.& Murray, C. J., 2016. Development assistance for health: past trends, associations, and the future of international financial flows for health. The Lancet.
Dieleman, J.L., T. Templin, N. Sadat, P. Reidy, A. Chapin, et al., 2016. National spending on health by source for 184 countries between 2013 and 2040’, Lancet, 387(10037):2521–35.
Rottingen, J. A., Ottersen, T., Ablo, A., Arhin-Tenkorang, D., Benn, C., Elovainio, R.& McIntyre, D. , 2014. Shared responsibilities for health: a coherent global framework for health financing; final report of the Centre on Global Health Security Working Group on Health Financing.
Global health governance
Farmer, P. 2004. The Anthropology of Structural Violence. Current Anthropology 45 (3): 305-325
Frenk, J. and Moon, S., 2013. Governance challenges in global health. New England Journal of Medicine 368:936–42.
Ottersen, O.P., J. Dasgupta, C. Blouin, P. Buss, V. Chongsuvivatwong, et al., 2014. The political origins of health inequity: prospects for change. Lancet, 383:630-67.
Kickbusch, I. (2016). Global Health Governance Challenges 2016–Are We Ready?. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 5(6), 349.
Stuckler, D. and McKee, M., 2008. Five metaphors about global-health policy. Lancet 372:95–97.
Adams, V. 2016. Metrics of the Global Sovereign: Numbers and Stories in Global Health. In: V. Adams (ed.): Metrics. What counts in global health, 19-57. Duke University Press
Universal health coverage
Chalkidou, K., A. Glassman, R. Marten, J. Vega, Y. Teerawattananon, et al., 2016. Priority-setting for achieving universal health coverage, Bull World Health Organ, 94(6):462-7.
Cotlear et al., 2015. Going universal: how 24 developing countries are implementing universal health coverage reforms from the bottom up. Washington, DC: World Bank
World Health Organization, 2007. Executive summary. In Everybody’s business: strengthening health systems to improve health outcomes. WHO’s framework for action. Geneva: WHO.
World Health Organization, 2010. Executive summary. In Health systems financing: the path to universal coverage. World Health Report. Geneva: WHO.
World Health Organization and World Bank, 2015. Executive summary. In Tracking universal health coverage: first global monitoring report. Geneva: WHO.
Infectious diseases
Cardona, C., Travis, D. A., Berger, K., Coat, G., Kennedy, S., Steer, C. J., ... & Sriramarao, P. (2015). Advancing One Health Policy and Implementation Through the Concept of One Medicine One Science. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(5), 50-54.
Chan, J.F., Choi, G.K., Yip, C.C., Cheng, V.C. and Yuen, K.Y., 2016. Zika fever and congenital Zika syndrome: an unexpected emerging arboviral disease. Journal of Infection, 72(5), pp.507-524.
Holm-Hansen, C. C., Midgley, S. E., & Fischer, T. K. (2016). Global emergence of enterovirus D68: a systematic review. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 16(5), e64-e75.
Yang, K., LeJeune, J., Alsdorf, D., Lu, B., Shum, C. K., & Liang, S. (2012). Global distribution of outbreaks of water-associated infectious diseases. PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 6(2), e1483.
Morse, S. S., Mazet, J. A., Woolhouse, M., Parrish, C. R., Carroll, D., Karesh, W. B., ... & Daszak, P. (2012). Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis. The Lancet, 380(9857), 1956-1965.
Travis, D. A., Sriramarao, P., Cardona, C., Steer, C. J., Kennedy, S., Sreevatsan, S., & Murtaugh, M. P. (2014). One Medicine One Science: a framework for exploring Challenges at the intersection of animals, humans, and the environment. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1334(1), 26-44.
Winkler, A. S. (2012). Neurocysticercosis in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of prevalence, clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and management. Pathogens and global health, 106(5), 261-274.
HIV/AIDS
Beyrer, C., et al. 2013. The increase in global HIV epidemics in MSM. Aids 27.17, 2665-2678.
Brandt, Allan M. 2013. How AIDS invented global health. New England Journal of Medicine 368.23: 2149-2152.
Biehl, J. G.2007. Pharmaceuticalization: AIDS Treatment and Global Health Politics. Anthropological Quarterly 80(4):1083-1126
Cohen, M. S., et al. 2016. Antiretroviral therapy for the prevention of HIV-1 transmission." New England Journal of Medicine 375.9, 830-839.
DiClemente, R. J., P. Seth, and P. Mehrotra, 2016. The Evolving Global HIV Pandemic: Epidemiology, Prevention, and Future Priorities. In: RJ DiClemente (Ed.), JK Andrus (Ed.), EN Hosein (Ed.), Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). Introduction to Global Health Promotion. Somerset, NJ: Jossey-Bass
Fauci, A.S., G.K. Folkers, and C.W. Dieffenbach. 2013. HIV-AIDS: much accomplished, much to do." Nature immunology 14.11, 1104-1107.
Friedland G. 2016. Marking Time in the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic. JAMA.316(2):145-146.
Kippax, S. 2012. Effective HIV prevention: the indispensable role of social science. Journal of the International AIDS Society 15.2.
Kippax, S., et al.2013. Between individual agency and structure in HIV prevention: understanding the middle ground of social practice. American journal of public health 103.8, 1367-1375.
Maartens, G., C. Celum, and S.R. Lewin. 2014. HIV infection: epidemiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention. The Lancet 384.9939, 258-271.
Race, K. 2014. The Difference Practice Makes: Evidence, Articulation, and Affect in HIV Prevention. AIDS Education and Prevention 26.3, 256.
Race, K. 2008. The use of pleasure in harm reduction: Perspectives from the history of sexuality. International Journal of Drug Policy, 19, 417-423
Non-communicable diseases
Bawah, A., Houle, B., Alam, N., Razzaque, A., Streatfield, P. K., Debpuur, C.,& Collinson, M., 2016. The Evolving Demographic and Health Transition in Four Low-and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Four Sites in the INDEPTH Network of Longitudinal Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems. PloS one, 11(6), e0157281.
Juma PA, Mohamed SF, Wisdom J, Kyobutungi C, Oti S. 2016. Analysis of Non-communicable disease prevention policies in five Sub-Saharan African countries: Study protocol. Arch Public Health. Jun 22;74:25. doi: 10.1186/s13690-016-0137-9.
Livingston, J., 2013. The next epidemic . Pain and the politics of relief in Botswana’s cancer ward. In: Biel and Petryna (eds.): When People come first, p. 182-206. Princeton University Press.
Passi, S. J. (2016). Prevention of non-communicable diseases by balanced nutrition: population-specific effective public health approaches in developing countries. Current diabetes reviews.
Pillay, S., & Aldous, C., 2016. Introducing a multifaceted approach to the management of diabetes mellitus in resource-limited settings. South African Medical Journal, 106(5), 456-458.
Stephani, V., Opoku, D., & Quentin, W. (2016). A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of mHealth interventions against non-communicable diseases in developing countries. BMC Public Health, 16(1), 572.doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3226-3
Zhou, B., Lu, Y., Hajifathalian, K., Bentham, J., Di Cesare, M., Danaei, G., ... & Lo, W. C. (2016). Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: pooled analysis of 751 population-based measurement studies with over 4.4 million participants. The Lancet.
Global Mental Health
Bayard R. & J. Browne, 2011. A systematic review of factors influencing the psychological health of conflict-affected populations in low- and middle-income
countries, Global Public Health, 6:8, 814-829
Charlson, F. J., Baxter, A. J., Cheng, H. G., Shidhaye, R., & Whiteford, H. A. (2016). The burden of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders in China and India: a systematic analysis of community representative epidemiological studies. The Lancet.
Hacking, I., 1999. Chapter 3: Madness: Biological or Social? In: The Social Construction of What? Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Kleinman, A., 2009. Global mental health: A failure to humanity? The Lancet, 374(9690): 603-604.
Patel, V., & Saxena, S., 2014. Transforming lives, enhancing communities—innovations in global mental health. New England Journal of Medicine, 370(6), 498-501.
Summerfield, D., 2008. How scientifically valid is the knowledge base of global mental health? British Medical Journal 336(7651): 992-994.
Whiteford, H. A., Degenhardt, L., Rehm, J., Baxter, A. J., Ferrari, A. J., Erskine, H. E., ... & Burstein, R., 2013. Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The Lancet, 382(9904), 1575-1586.
Maternal and child Health
Adams V et.al. 2005. Having a “Safe Delivery”: Conflicting views from Tibet. Health care for Women international, 26: 821-851
Thaddeus S & Maine D. 1994. Too far to walk: Maternal mortality in context. Social Science and Medicine 38(8), 1091-1110.
Harvey S et al. 2007. Are skilled birth attendants really skilled? A measurement method, some disturbing results and a potential way forward. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (85), 783-790.
Ni Bhuinneain GM & McCarthy FP. 2015 A systematic review of essential obstetric and newborn care capacity building in rural sub-Saharan Africa. BJOG(122), 174–184.
Filippi V et al. 2016. In Black RE, Laxminarayan R, Temmerman M, Walker N, (eds): Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (2): Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. April, 51-70.
Moucheraud C et al. 2016. Countdown to 2015 country case studies: what have we learned about processes and progress towards MDGs 4 and 5? BMC Public Health. 16(Suppl 2), 794.
Ethics
Feierman, S., 2011. When Physicians Meet: Local Medical Knowledge and Global Public Goods. In: Geissler, P.W and C. Molyneux (eds.): Evidence, Ethos and Experiment - The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa, 171-96. Oxford: Berghahn.
Okwaro F & Geissler PW., 2015. In/dependent collaborations: Perceptions and experiences of African scientists in transnational HIV research. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol 29 (4): 492-511
Molyneux, S., & Geissler, P. W., 2008. Ethics and the ethnography of medical research in Africa. Social Science & Medicine, 67(5), 685–695.
Useful reports
WHO (2016) Standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn care in health facilities.
United Nations (2012) UN Commission On Life-Saving Commodities For Women And Children.
WHO & UNICEF (2005) Model IMCI handbook: Integrated management of childhood illness.
World Health Organization 2006. Neurological disorders – public health challenges. WHO:Geneva
World Health Organisation 2013. Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020.Geneva: World Health Organisation
World Health Organization, 2015. Global action plan on antimicrobial resistance, Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly. Agenda item 15.1. Geneva: World Health Organization.