Research involving human embryos and reproductive materials, including certain forms of stem cell and genetic research, is a fast-moving area of science with demonstrated clinical relevance. Canada's current governance framework for this field of research urgently requires review and reconsideration in view of emerging applications. Based on a workshop involving ethics, legal, policy, scientifi...

This article addresses several issues pertinent to health systems governance for health equity. It argues the importance of health systems using measures of positive health (well-being), discriminating in favour of historically less advantaged groups and weighing the costs of health care against investments in the social determinants of health. It cautions that the concept of governance could w...

Strong leadership, governance, and management are the cornerstones of successful global, national, and local efforts to save lives and achieve the maximum impact from health investments. Yet effective leadership, management, and governance skills and practices too often are the vital missing elements in public, civil society and even private health organizations. Fortunately, these skills can b...

As a consequence of rapid globalization, the need for a coherent system of global health law and governance has never been greater. This article explores the health hazards posed by contemporary globalization on human health and the consequent urgent need for global health law to facilitate effective multilateral cooperation in advancing the health of populations equitably. It sets forth the fi...

This work presents a proposal for integrating Context Providers to the LARIISA a project that makes use of intelligent systems for helping decision-making in the area of public health governance. The context providers gather information about concerned communities and will allow the implementation of ontologies reflecting different levels of public health governance (e.g. state-wide, locality-w...

Global Health Governance (GHG) uses a set of financial, normative, and epistemic arguments to retain amplify its influence. During the COVID-19 pandemic, GHG regime used own successes failures prescribe more itself while demanding further resources. However, consistent this form governance appeasement dominant neoliberal ideology lead following question: Is global health failing at goal improvi...

In line with the policy objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this commentary seeks to examine the extent to which provisions of international health research guidance promote capacity building and equitable partnerships in global health research. Our evaluation finds that governance of collaborative research partnerships, and in particular capacity building, in resour...

Background The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has recently set the ambitious “90-90-90 target” of having 90% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) know their status, receive antiretroviral therapy (ART), and achieve viral suppression by 2020. This ambitious new goal is occurring in a context of global “scale-down” following nearly a decade of heightened investment in HIV ...