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2011

Grépin, Karen A, Leach-Kemon, Katherine , Schneider, Matthew, Sridhar, Devi. How to do (or not to do) ... Tracking data on development assistance for health. Health Policy Plan. (2011)doi: 10.1093/heapol/czr076First published online: December 8, 2011. View Publication.
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Development assistance for health (DAH) has increased substantially in recent years and is seen as important to the improvement of health and health systems in developing countries. As a result, there has been increasing interest in tracking and understanding these resource flows from the global health community. A number of datasets, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, are available to track DAH. In this article we review the available datasets on DAH and summarize the strengths and weaknesses of each of these datasets to help researchers make the best choice of which to use to inform their analysis. Finally, we also provide recommendations about how each of these datasets could be improved.

 

Grépin, Karen. Leveraging HIV Programs to Deliver an Integrated Package of Health Services: Some Words of Caution. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes: 1 August 2011 - Volume 57 - Issue - pp S77-S79 doi: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e31821f6afa . Download Article
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Over the past decade, HIV programs have been successfully scaled up in many developing countries, leading some to wonder how the investments made into HIV infrastructure could be leveraged to deliver additional health services. Although the concept is appealing from many perspectives, integrating additional health services into existing vertical HIV infrastructure may not mitigate some of the challenges these programs have introduced in implementing countries. In addition, this approach to integration may countervail parallel efforts of the global health community to strengthen health systems and improve aid effectiveness. It might also undermine the HIV programs themselves. International donors and health system planners should carefully consider whether the benefits outweigh the potential costs of these well-intentioned integration efforts.

LSE Cities, Victor G. Rodwin Urban Age Conference Report. Urban Age Conference on Health and Cities - Hong Kong, November, 2011. View/Download Report
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Cities are critical sites for enquiry and action in relation to health and well-being. With up to 70 per cent of the world’s population estimated to be living in urban areas by 2050 1 , global health will be determined increasingly in cities. As Africa and Asia become the locus of urbanisation, researchers and policy-makers are increasingly contextualising, questioning or even moving beyond the urban health knowledge and approaches we have developed over the past century mainly in Western Europe and North America. The existence of significant urban health inequalities even within rich cities, often stubbornly resisting the efforts of public policy to reduce them, also continue to demand our attentions. In response to these challenges, the 2011 Urban Age Hong Kong conference, organized by the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Alfred Herrhausen Society in partnership with the University of Hong Kong, brought together over 170 planners, architects, sociologists, medical doctors, public health experts and economists from 36 cities and 22 countries to help identify the routes through which new meanings, methods and interventions for health and well-being might be developed for greater effect in today’s cities.

2010

Gusmano, M.K & Rodwin, V.G. Urban Aging, Social Isolation, and Emergency Preparedness. IFA Global Ageing.

Kersh, R. & Elbel, B. "Childhood Obesity; public health impact and policy responses". "Global View On Childhood Obesity: Current Status, Consequences, and Prevention" Debasis Bagchi, Editor. Sept-2010.
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Understanding the complex factors contributing to the growing childhood obesity epidemic is vital not only for the improved health of the world's future generations, but for the healthcare system. The impact of childhood obesity reaches beyond the individual family and into the public arenas of social systems and government policy and programs. Global Perspectives on Childhood Obesity explores these with an approach that considers the current state of childhood obesity around the world as well as future projections, the most highly cited factors contributing to childhood obesity, what it means for the future both for children and society, and suggestions for steps to address and potentially prevent childhood obesity.

2008

Rodwin, V.G. Health and Disease in Global Cities: A Neglected Dimension of National Health Policy. Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City. Edited by Keil, R. and H. Ali. Oxford University Press, .
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A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies.

2005

Boufford, J.I. Leadership Development for Global Health. in Global Health Leadership and Management, Forege, WH; Daulaire, N.; Black, R.E.; Pearson, C.E., Eds. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, .
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Written by an international panel of distinguished global health experts, this book distills valuable lessons from a wide variety of successful health programs that have been implemented around the world. "Global Health Leadership and Management gives practical suggestions for enhancing and developing the essential skills of leadership, management, communication, and project planning for health care leaders. The book will assist health leaders to work well within their communities and effectively plan, direct, implement, and evaluate effective programs and activities. "Global Health Leadership and Management outlines and describes such core competencies as Identifying challenges and developing and managing policy Developing strategies, pathways, and solutions Creating networks and partnerships and planning for change Learning from experience to build a generation of leaders Leading and managing teams by recognizing and celebrating success

Chen, L.C. & Boufford, J.I. Fatal Flows—Doctors on the Move. New England Journal of Medicine October 27, Volume 353, Number 17.
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The movement of physicians from poor to rich countries is a growing obstacle to global health. Ghana, with 0.09 physician per thousand population, sends doctors to the United Kingdom, which has 18 times as many physicians per capita. The United States, with 5 percent of the world's population, employs 11 percent of the globe's physicians, and its demand is growing.1 As underscored in the article by Mullan in this issue of the Journal,2 today, 25 percent of U.S. physicians are international medical graduates, and the number is even higher in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

2004

Chen, L.C., Evans, T., Anand, S., Boufford, J.I., Brown, H., Chowdhury, M. & Michael, S. Human Resources for Health: Overcoming the Crisis. The Lancet, Vol. 364, Issue 9449, 27 November 2004-3 December 2004, Pgs 1984-1990.
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In this analysis of the global workforce, the Joint Learning Initiative—a consortium of more than 100 health leaders—proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems in all countries. Nearly all countries are challenged by worker shortage, skill mix imbalance, maldistribution, negative work environment, and weak knowledge base. Especially in the poorest countries, the workforce is under assault by HIV/AIDS, out-migration, and inadequate investment. Effective country strategies should be backed by international reinforcement. Ultimately, the crisis in human resources is a shared problem requiring shared responsibility for cooperative action. Alliances for action are recommended to strengthen the performance of all existing actors while expanding space and energy for fresh actors.

2002

Rodwin, V.G. & Gusmano, M.K. The World Cities Project: Rationale, Organization, and Design for Comparison of Megacity Health Systems. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, vol. 79, no. 4, December . View publication
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This article provides an overview of the World Cities Project (WCP), our rationale for it, our framework for comparative analysis, and an overview of current studies in progress. The WCP uses New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo as a laboratory in which to study urban health, particularly the evolution and current organization of public health infrastructure, as well as the health status and quality of life in these cities. Comparing world cities in wealthier nations is important because of (1) global trends in urbanization, emerging health risks, and population aging; (2) the dominant influence of these cities on “megacities†of developing nations; and (3) the existence of data and scholarship about these world cities, which provides a foundation for comparing their health systems and health. We argue that, in contrast to nation-states, world cities provide opportunities for more refined comparisons and cross-national learning. To provide a framework for WCP, we define an urban core for each city and examine the similarities and differences among them. Our current studies shed light on inequalities in health care use and health status, the importance of neighborhoods in protecting population health, and quality of life in diverse urban communities.

2001

Rodwin, V.G. Urban Health: Is the City Infected? Medicine and Humanity. London: King's Fund, . View article
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The city is, at once, a center for disease and poor health and also a place for hope, cures and good health. From the earliest times, the city has attracted the poor and been the target of the plague, as well as war. Likewise, the health care industry has always been part of the economic base of cities - from Lourdes, in France, to Rochester, Minnesota, to megacities around the world. With its highly disproportionate share of health resources, e.g., hospitals, physicians, nurses and social services, the big city is a center of excellence in medicine. Yet, as Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet once noted, "For all of its rational efficiency and benevolent intent, the city is likely to be the death of us." Are cities socially infected breeding grounds for disease? Or do they represent critical spatial entities for promotion of population health? I propose to begin with a global view of urban health and disease and the challenge this poses for public health today. Next, I examine some evidence for the hypothesis that population health in cities is relatively poor. Finally, I suggest that the more pertinent question is not whether the city is unhealthy or healthy but rather the extent to which we can alleviate the problems posed by inequalities of income and wealth - in the city as well as outside of it.

Zimmerman, R. & Cusker, M.. Institutional Decision-Making. Chapter 9 and Appendix 10 in Climate Change and a Global City: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. Metro East Coast, edited by C. Rosenzweig and W. D. Solecki. New York, NY: Columbia Earth Institute and Goddard Institute. View Book
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The international scientific community has begun to focus upon the reality of global climate change and sophisticated research techniques provide increasingly accurate models of the potential impacts of associated weather extremes, disease outbreaks, and global and local environmental destruction. Yet decision-making institutions have not, for the most part, incorporated global climate change in their policies and planning efforts. This report presents the implications of climate change, thus far considered largely in a global context, in very local terms. As research and discussion of climate change begin to focus on anticipated regional impacts, decision-makers in the Metropolitan East Coast (MEC) Region and elsewhere should begin to consider and implement practical adaptation policies affecting land use, infrastructure, natural resource management, public health, and emergency and disaster response.

2000

Boufford, J.I. Setting the Global Agenda for Health. M. Osterweis and D. Holmes (eds.), Global Dimensions in Domestic Health Issues. Association of Academic Health Centers, .

Rodwin, V.G. Project Report: Population Aging and Longevity in World Cities. Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership Newsletter, Vol. 26, fall .
Abstract

Improvements in health care and declining birth rates have combined to create rapidly aging populations throughout the industrialized world. By 2020, for example, nearly seventeen percent of the US population is expected to be over the age of sixty-five. In Japan that mark has already been passed, with more than one-quarter of the population expected to be over sixty-five by 2020. At the same time, the world's population is increasingly concentrated in urban areas: the United Nations estimates that by 2025, sixty-one percent of the world's population will live in cities. As both urbanization and population aging increase, we will need models of how to accommodate this population shift and examples to emulate in dealing with these phenomena.

1998

Rodriguez-Garcia, R., Macinko, J. & Casas, J. (Eds.) From Humanitarian Assistance to Human Development. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization/WHO. .
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Civil, political and military conflict--Natural and man-made disasters--Poverty and human suffering...As the new millennium approaches, the need for humanitarian assistance in response to these global challenges endures. Complex humanitarian emergencies demand human, financial and material resources on an international scale. This presents the global community, and particularly the health sector, with a formidable and daunting task: Faced with limited resources, how can organizations and actors simultaneously meet immediate humanitarian needs while maintaining their commitment to long term human development? More specifically, how can humanitarian relief and sustainable human development efforts be linked? From Humanitarian Assistance to Human Development responds and reacts to this question by serving as a forum for distinguished members of the health and development arena to present issues, policies and innovative programs in response. Divided into three sections, the book examines the humanitarian assistance-human development continuum within the global-policy context of human development, reviews humanitarian assistance as a social phenomena, highlights country experiences in Rwanda and Bosnia, and discusses means of relieving human suffering and restoring infrastructure and health and social services in the aftermath of conflict. In this thought-provoking, informative volume, the perspectives, experiences and proposals of specialists from academic institutions, national and international agencies and non-governmental organizations are united to help inform future policy, inspire programmatic action and, ultimately, bridge the gap between humanitarian assistance and human development.
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March 05, 2009
Conflict Security and Development Series: Disasters and Peacemaking: Creating Opportunities for Peace with Michael Renner
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February 26, 2009
Conflict Security and Development Series: Voting for Peace: Building Democracies in Post-Conflict Countries with Thomas Flores
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February 19, 2009
Conflict Security and Development Series: Challenges and Hope for Development: The Case of Rwanda and Darfur Survivors with Mary Kayitesi Blewitt
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February 12, 2009
Conflict Security and Development Series: Reproductive Health of War-Affected Populations: What Do We Know? with Therese McGinn
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February 05, 2009
Conflict Security and Development Series: Where Has the Russian "Mafiya" Gone? And Should We Care? with Mark Galeotti
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January 29, 2009
Conflict Security and Development Series: The Impact of Climate Change on International Peace & Security: A View from the Small Island States with Stuart Beck
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October 23, 2008
Conflict Security and Development Series: Using Law and Policy to Harness Globalization and Markets for Developing Countries With Eleanor Fox
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October 02, 2008
Conflict Security and Development Series: Perspectives on Political Development: Sheri Berman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
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October 16, 2008
Conflict Security and Development Series: Brain Drain? The Implications of Africa's Emigrating Health Workforce
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October 15, 2008
Conflict Security and Development Series: Rethinking Democratic Interventions in the Midst of War: Case Study Afghanistan
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October 10, 2008
Conflict Security and Development Series: Where We Stand: 7 Years after the 9/11 Attacks
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October 29, 2007
CONFLICT, SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT SERIES: Security in a Changing World: Multilateral Institutions in the Twenty-First Century. Shakaut Fareed
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February 15, 2007
2007 Migration and Global Health Conference
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September 29, 2009
Climate Change and Water Series: with Upmanu Lall, Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
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October 22, 2009
Exposing the Green Revolution: Myths, Realities, and Community Responses
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November 17, 2009
Climate Change and Water Series: Rethinking the Science of Climate: Water Use, Culture, and Adaptation to Global Warming in the Andes
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February 11, 2010
Conflict Security and Development Series Spring 2010: Forensic Assessment of Human Rights Violations: Advocacy as a Public Health Measure
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March 04, 2010
Conflict Security and Development Series- Violence, Democracy and Development in the Southern Philippines
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March 03, 2011
Conflict Security and Development Series: Advocacy and the Internally Displaced: Lessons from the IDP Network in Kenya
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April 22, 2011
Uncover and Speak Out: Systemic Violence Against LGBTQ Communities From a Global Perspective
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October 06, 2011
Conflict, Security, and Development Series: Gender-Based Violence and Access to Food and Water in Humanitarian Crises - Is there a Connection?
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Events

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WHN Student Chat Series: Tapping Private Markets for International Public Health04/17/2013
WHN Fall Registration Advising Lunch04/05/2013
WHN Student Chat Series: Planning for Fellowships, Internships, and Beyond02/22/2013
Health Policy and Management Research Faculty Dinner02/21/2013
IPSA's 2nd Annual International Faculty Research Dinner02/12/2013
Courses Abroad Info Session02/11/2013
Summer Courses Abroad Info Session12/07/2012
WSAFA & BSA Presents: A Film titled "Yesterday".12/03/2012
WHN Health Issues Student Chat Series11/30/2012
WHN Speed Networking Event with HLNY11/20/2012
AIDS Conspiracy Theories: A Discussion with Professor Nicoli Nattrass10/10/2012
WHN Student Faculty Meet and Greet09/20/2012
January Courses Abroad in Brazil - Info Session09/14/2012
Conflict Security and Development Series Fall 2012: Conflict, Security and Development Series - Fall 201209/11/2012
IPSA's Discussion of Chronic Disease and Economic Development in Nicaragua with La Isla Foundation03/22/2012
WHN International Health Round Table03/06/2012
WHN: Research Faculty Luncheon02/27/2012
Film Screening and Discussion: Invisible Slaves: An MTV EXIT Special02/17/2012
Supply Chains: Slave-Made Products in the Global Market02/13/2012
Moving Forward, Getting to Zero: the AIDS Crisis after 30 Years12/08/2011
Global Perspectives of Road Safety: A conversation with public health expert Dr. Kelly J. Henning, Director of Public Health Programs for Bloomberg Philanthropies11/29/2011
IPSA's International Faculty Research Dinner11/22/2011
Conflict, Security and Development Series - Fall 2011: “Ethiopia's Planned Gibe III Hydrodam: Dismantling Pastoral Survival Systems, Armed Conflict and Political Destabilization in the Kenya-Ethiopia-Sudan Border Region”r11/10/2011
AIDS and the New Global Health Agenda: A Discussion with Laurie Garrett11/08/2011
Vital Voices - Fall 2011: Guest Lecture Series: mothers2mothers10/24/2011
Conflict, Security and Development Series - Fall 2011: "The Role of UN Sanctions in African Conflict Zones"r10/20/2011
Conflict, Security and Development Series - Fall 2011: “Gender-Based Violence and Access to Food and Water in Humanitarian Crises: Is there a Connection?”r10/06/2011
Conflict, Security and Development Series - Fall 2011: “Priority Reproductive Health Services in Humanitarian Emergencies – the Minimum Initial Service Package”r09/29/2011
Conflict, Security and Development Series - Fall 2011: “Community-based Schools in Afghanistan: Preventing Violence Against Education and Protecting the Right to Learn”r09/22/2011
January Courses Abroad in Brazil - Info Session09/16/2011
Conflict, Security and Development Series - Fall 2011: “The Use of Intelligence in Terrorist Prosecutions”09/15/2011
Uncover and Speak Out: Systemic Violence Against LGBTQ Communities From a Global Perspective04/22/2011
Healthcare Access: A Global Problem04/20/2011
Conflict Security and Development Series Spring 2011: Improving Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health in Post-Conflict Settings04/14/2011
Conflict Security and Development Series Spring 201101/27/2011
How US Foreign Policy is Made: Special Focus on Policies Related to Women and Development.11/29/2010
[CANCELED] How Brazil outpaced the US when it came to combating health epidemics: Strategic internationalization and institution-building11/04/2010
Creative State: Book Announcement and Celebration09/27/2010
International Humanitarian Surgery: Surgery for the Rest of the World09/15/2010
Wagner Health Network Kick-Off09/10/2010
Public Ends: Private Means - Government Engagement with the Private Health Sector in Developing Countries04/22/2010
International Movements, Resources, and the Politics of Brazil's Response to HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis04/15/2010
Conflict Security and Development Series Spring 2010: Violence, Democracy and Development in the Southern Philippines03/04/2010
Conflict Security and Development Series Spring 2010: Forensic Assessment of Human Rights Violations: Advocacy as a Public Health Measure02/11/2010
Pathways to Opportunity: Overcoming Barriers to Human Mobility11/19/2009
Global Health Aging:
Are we Prepared for the Epidemic of the Aging Baby Boomers?		10/23/2009
Exposing the Green Revolution: Myths, Realities, and Community Responses10/22/2009
Setting the Agenda: the Impact of Women in Public Service10/16/2009
Scaling Up Microfinance in Africa: Lessons from BRAC Uganda10/06/2009
Mobilizing Women for Economic Development:09/24/2009
An Evening with Robert Kaiser of The Washington Post09/22/2009
Palestinian Healthcare Under Siege:04/01/2009
Financing Global Health: Part III: Public/Private Partnerships in Global Health Initiatives03/27/2009
A Dangerous Dilemma: The Impacts of the Global Gag Rule03/06/2009
Financing Global Health: Part II: Microfinance Initiatives and their Role in Global Health02/20/2009
Food, Fuel and Finance: Public Forum on Global Crisis02/18/2009
Sons of Lwala Film Screening02/13/2009
Global AIDS in Our Global Community: HIV/AIDS Organizations in NYC12/03/2008
Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Implications10/06/2008
Left Behind: Black America: A Neglected Priority in the Global AIDS Epidemic10/02/2008
Conflict Security and Development Series: Brain Drain? The Implications of Africa's Emigrating Health Workforce09/25/2008
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Courses

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P11.1831 Introduction to Global Health Policy
P11.2236 Protecting Rights and Promoting Development: Labor and Environmental Standards in the Global Economy
P11.2242 International Health Policy and Prospects (Geneva, Switzerland)
P11.2244 Global Health Governance and Management
P11.2666 Water Sourcing and Climate Change
P11.2867 Health System Reform: Comparative Perspectives
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