Tag: Global Health
45 Articles
- Global Governance
All I Need Is a Shot in the Arm: Global Cooperation and the COVID-19 Vaccine
We may be seeing the beginning of the end of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Though many countries are seeing rapid increases in new cases and hospitalizations, and governments are…
December 16, 2020
- Science & Technology
Reconceptualizing Race and Healthcare in the Wake of COVID-19
Prior to the onset of COVID-19, healthcare expenditures represented approximately seventeen percent of the US gross domestic product (GDP), and per capita healthcare spending in…
December 14, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
COVID-19: A Crisis within Crises for the World’s Most Vulnerable
There are millions of Yemenis trapped in the middle of the globe’s deadliest active conflict. And there are the 730 thousand destitute Rohingya who fled genocidal violence in…
December 11, 2020
- Society & Culture
The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Effects on United Nations Peacekeeping
COVID-19 has taken over one million lives, will likely cost the global economy trillions of dollars, and has created uncertainty and chaos. As a result, more is being asked of…
December 9, 2020
- Conflict & Security
COVID-19 Yields a Sharper Picture of China-Taiwan Relations
On December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission posted a message on its website detailing a mysterious “viral pneumonia” emerging in the city. This information,…
December 7, 2020
- Dialogues
Dr. Jeni Klugman on COVID-19’s Toll on Women and the State of Gender Equality
GJIA: The Beijing +25 report mentions how COVID-19 is worsening gender inequality in the labor market. Why are female workers disproportionately impacted, and how has this played…
November 20, 2020
- Science & Technology
PART II: COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Why South Korea’s Success is Hard to Replicate
As it currently stands, the legal impediments to centralized contact tracing have essentially reduced EU countries to adopt non-centralized alternatives. Most have involved…
October 19, 2020
- Science & Technology
PART I: COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Why South Korea’s Success is Hard to Replicate
It often surprises many to know South Korea and the United States both reported their first COVID-19 cases on the same day: January 20, 2020. Despite the early exposure, South…
October 12, 2020
- Dialogues
Professor Vittorio Emanuele Parsi on the International Order in a Post-Pandemic World
GJIA: In your latest book, Vulnerable: How the Pandemic Will Change the World, you describe a few possible international orders that could occur in a post-COVID-19 world. What…
July 29, 2020
- Global Governance
COVID-19 Management and Soft Power: Ideas for a Geopolitics of Science and Expertise
Countries such as Germany, South Korea, and New Zealand, where policies have been adopted rapidly by the political leadership in synergy with the scientific community, have seen…
July 14, 2020