Global Health Governance in International Society

Global health has become a more important issue on the international political agenda, but it is not entirely obvious how or why that change has occurred. It is also hard to tell from the outside whether this is a temporary burst of attention or signals a larger shift within the international community. This book argues that the rise of institutions and organizations dedicated to global health-global health governance-has emerged, grown, and proven itself resilient over the past generation because international society has come to understand addressing global health as part of a larger sense of moral responsibility and obligation. The behavioural expectations within international society around global health have changed, and this has shifted how actors respond to global health issues and suggests that health issues are unlikely to disappear from the international political agenda in the near-future.