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A decade ago, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) was established to combat the growing fragmentation of global health action into uncoordinated, issue-specific efforts. Inspired by dominant global public-private partnerships for health, the PMNCH brought together previously competing advocacy coalitions for safe motherhood and child survival and attracted support fro...

The COVID-19 has renovated the debate about global health governance. Many scholars have proposed that World Health Organization (WHO) should assume position of a central coordinator with hierarchical powers. This article presents four main objections to this project: problems ‘one-size-fits-all’ policies, heterogeneous distribution power within multilateral institutions, risks crowding out par...