the formulation of global health policy is political; and all institutions operating in the global health landscape are political. this is because policies and institutions inevitably represent certain values, reflect particular ideologies, and preferentially serve some interests over others. this may be expressed explicitly and consciously; or implicitly and unconsciously. but it’s important t...

AIMS To develop an approach for monitoring national alcohol marketing policies globally, an area of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Alcohol Strategy. METHODS Data on restrictiveness of alcohol marketing policies came from the 2002 and 2008 WHO Global Surveys on Alcohol and Health. We included four scales in a sensitivity analysis to determine optimal weights to score countries on...

gorik ooms recently made a strong case for considering the centrality of normative premises to analyzing and understanding the underappreciated importance of the nexus of politics, power and process in global health. this critical commentary raises serious questions for the practice and study of global health and global health governance. first and foremost, this commentary underlines the impor...

Background: Endostatin is a potent endogenous anti-angiogenic agent which inhibits tumour growth. A non-synonymous coding polymorphism in the Endostatin gene is thought to affect Endostatin activity. We aimed to determine the role of this Endostatin polymorphism in breast cancer pathogenesis and any influence on serum Endostatin levels in healthy volunteers. Endostatin protein expression on a b...

Alliance for Health Policy and System Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Health Sector Support Programme, Luxembourg Development, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Division of Global Health (IHCAR) and Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzer...

1 Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America, 2 Global Health Policy Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, 3 Joint Masters Program on Health Policy and Law, University of California, San Diego-California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, United States of America, 4 Departm...

Wadhwani Research Center for Biosciences and Bioengineering, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India; Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala 690525, India; Group on Complex Collaboration, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, 1001 Sherbrooke Street West, Montrea...