Global Public Health and Innovative Forms of Governance

1. Introduction The global health landscape is changing, not only in terms of the ways in which globalization affects the spread of diseases but also in terms of how global health is being governed. Over the past 15 years, there has been a proliferation in so called hybrid forms of governance, encompassing public-private partnerships (PPPs) and other forms of cooperation between different types of actors such as states, intergovernmental organisations, civil society, academia and business. 1 Although hybrid governance is also found in a wide range of other