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The European Union’s voice and influence on global health and the reform of the WHO: the role of diplomacy

This paper explores the implications of the Lisbon Treaty for the European Union’s (EU) role in global health. It also considers the EU position at the World Health Organisation (WHO) and specifically on the reform debate where the WHO’s core business, financing, governance and management operations are under review. The paper examines the extent to […]

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How Europe can better support global health governance: a global public goods approach

The third paper in the GHE research series provides a discussion on global public goods theory and its relevance for governance for global health in Europe. Many global health challenges bring to mind the concept of public goods, a concept that is well established in economics but has so far been primarily applied to national […]

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Launch of GHE Research Paper: The impact of global processes on health systems in Europe

The second paper in the Global Health Europe Research Series was launched today at the European Health Forum Gastein. The paper “The impact of global processes on health systems in Europe” was written by Dr. Göran Tomson, Professor of International Health Sytems Research at the Division of Global Health (IHCAR) at the Karolinska Institutet in […]

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GLOBAL HEALTH EUROPE RESEARCH PAPER N° 1 | 2009

AbstractThis paper analyses the performance of the European Union (EU) in the World Health Organization (WHO). It sets out a framework for analysing the EU’s performance in relation to unity in external representation. EU unity is assumed to be derived from European Community (EC) competence, the preference homogeneity of EU member states, and the socialization […]