Readings in Global Health

David J. Hunter, MBBS, MPH, ScD, is Dean for Academic Affairs and Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A medical doctor and epidemiologist from Australia, he has conducted HIV research in East Africa and led international consortia studying nutritional and genetic causes of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers. Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, is President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He is a former President of the Institute of Medicine (2002-2014), Provost of Harvard University (1997-2001), and Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (1984-1997).

1. A Global View of Health-An Unfolding Series
Harvey V. Fineberg and David J. Hunter

Part I: Global Disease Patterns and Predictions

2. Measuring the Global Burden of Disease
Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez

3. Globalization, Climate Change, and Human Health
Anthony J. McMichael

Part II: Infectious Diseases

4. The Perpetual Challenge of Infectious Diseases
Anthony S. Fauci and David M. Morens

5. Response to the AIDS Pandemic-A Global Health Model
Peter Piot and Thomas C. Quinn

6. Pandemic Preparedness and Response-Lessons from the H1N1 Influenza of 2009
Harvey V. Fineberg

7. Ebola Virus Disease: Past and Present
Rupa Kanapathipillai, Armand G Sprecher, and Lindsey R Baden

8. Designing Tomorrow's Vaccines
Gary J. Nabel

9. Disease Eradication
Donald R. Hopkins

Part III: Non-Communicable Diseases

10. Behavioral and Dietary Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases
Majid Ezzati and Elio Riboli

11. Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and of Taxing Tobacco
Prabhat Jha and Richard Peto

12. Noncommunicable Diseases
David J. Hunter and K. Srinath Reddy

13. Mental Health and the Global Agenda
Anne E. Becker and Arthur Kleinman

14. Injuries
Robyn Norton and Olive Kobusingye

Part IV: Health System Responses

15. Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health-So Near and Yet So Far
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Robert E. Black

16. Health Care Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Anne Mills

17. Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health
Jennifer Leaning and Debarati Guha-Sapir

Part V: Global Institutional Responses

18. Governance Challenges in Global Health
Julio Frenk and Suerie Moon

19. Global Health Law
Lawrence O. Gostin and Devi Sridhar

20. Global Supply of Health Professionals
Nigel Crisp and Lincoln Chen

21. Convergence to Common Purpose in Global Health
David J. Hunter and Harvey V. Fineberg

Index