Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World (eBook)

David Fairman is Managing Director at the Consensus Building Institute, Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and Lecturer in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. David is Senior Mediator on the rosters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. He is also a founding board member of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, founding Director of CBI’s Workable Peace program, member of the Advisory Board for the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution, and life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT and a B.A. from Harvard College. Diana Chigas joined CDA in 2003 as Co-Director of the Reflecting on Peace Practice Project (RPP). She is also Professor of the practice of negotiation and conflict resolution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she teaches courses on negotiation and development and conflict resolution. Prior to joining CDA, Diana worked at the non-governmental organization Conflict Management Group.  She has a JD from Harvard Law School, an MALD from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and a B.A. from Yale University. Elizabeth McClintock is a Founder and Managing Partner of CMPartners and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Bridgeway Group. Elizabeth is currently a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She holds an MALD from the Fletcher School and an AB from Dartmouth College. Nick Drager is former Director of the Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights and Senior Adviser in the Strategy Unit, Office of the Director-General at the World Health Organization is Honorary Professor, Global Health Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Professor of Public Policy and Global Health Diplomacy, McGill University; Adjunct Research Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa: Visiting Professor The Graduate Institute and Senior Fellow, Global Health Programme, The Graduate Institute, Geneva.  His work focuses on current and emerging public health issues related to globalization and health, especially global health diplomacy/governance, foreign policy and international trade and health. The policy related, research and training activities of his work programme are designed to contribute to enabling policy makers and public health practitioners to analyse and act on the broader determinants of health development, to better manage and shape the global and national policy environment for health and to place public health interests higher on the global development agenda to improve health outcomes.He has extensive experience working with senior officials in developing countries worldwide and major multilateral and bilateral development agencies in health policy development, health sector analysis, strategic planning and resource mobilization and allocation decisions and in providing advice on health development negotiations and in conflict resolution. He has deep experience in global health diplomacy and high-level negotiations on international health development issues. He has represented WHO at international events and conferences, serves as chair, keynote speaker at numerous international conferences; he lectures at Universities in Europe, North America and Asia; and is the author of numerous papers, editorials, and books in the area of global health, global health diplomacy; and trade, foreign policy and health He has an M.D. from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Hautes Etudes Internationales, (the Graduate Institute) University of Geneva. 

Introduction.- PART I: A FRAMEWORK FOR ENHANCING LEVERAGE IN NEGOTIATIONS.- 1: Issue Framing: Making Your Concerns a Global Priority.- 2: Managing the Negotiation Process.- 3: Coalition-Building and Process Strategies.- 4: Meeting Implementation Challenges.- 5: Building Institutional Capacity for Effective Negotiation.- PART II: CASE STUDIES.- 6: Case I - Analyzing a Complex Multilateral Negotiation: The TRIPS Public Health Declaration.- 7: Case II - Negotiating Access to HIV/AIDS Medicines: A Study of the Strategies Adopted by Brazil.- 8: Case III - Keeping Your Head Above Water in Climate Change Negotiations: Lessons from Island Nations.