Objective Globalisation has changed health conditions worldwide, affecting the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions. While historically many health issues have readily crossed borders (e.g. Black Plague), the intensification and extensification of contemporary globalisation processes has required new forms of governance to address changed global health needs. How do we collectively protect and promote health in an increasingly globalised world? This challenge has opened up a contested space known as global health governance (GHG) where the stakes are high but where different perspectives compete and contradict. It is also a poorly understood space. This programme aims to significantly advance our understanding of this space and the competition within it. It builds on a small body of existing literature to which the two applicants have already made important contributions, but represents a step change in two important respects. First, existing analyses have been limited to single approaches or perspectives. This programme represents the first sustained attempt at a comparative analysis incorporating a variety of perspectives and health issues. Given that the space is contested, it is only through such an analysis that we can significantly advance our understanding of GHG. Such an approach would represent a major advance on the current state of the art. Second, analysis to date has focused on disease and especially infectious disease. The applicants have been at the forefront of critiquing this approach as overly narrow (for example McInnes and Lee, 2006). This programme addresses infectious disease as one of the key issues in global health governance, but also incorporates non-communicable disease and non-disease based health issues in an explicit attempt to broaden the analysis to cover more fully the space occupied by global health governance. Fields of science social sciencessociologygovernancemedical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasessocial sciencessociologyglobalization Keywords International Public Health International Relations World Health organization global health governance international health regulations politics of infectious and non-communicable diseases Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-AG-SH2 - ERC Advanced Grant - Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour Call for proposal ERC-2008-AdG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Host institution ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY EU contribution € 1 343 013,60 Address VISUALISATION CENTRE PENGLAIS SY23 3BF Aberystwyth United Kingdom See on map Region Wales West Wales and The Valleys South West Wales Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Principal investigator Colin John Mcinnes (Prof.) Administrative Contact Reynolds Emyr (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution € 1 343 013,60 Address VISUALISATION CENTRE PENGLAIS SY23 3BF Aberystwyth See on map Region Wales West Wales and The Valleys South West Wales Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Principal investigator Colin John Mcinnes (Prof.) Administrative Contact Reynolds Emyr (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE ROYAL CHARTER United Kingdom EU contribution € 1 006 232,40 Address KEPPEL STREET WC1E 7HT London See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Penny Ireland (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
