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People wearing masks walk past an American flag painted on a building during the outbreak of COVID-19.

National Security Debate on Global Health Enters a New Phase

by David P. Fidler

Controversies about national security and global health are changing in a post-pandemic, geopolitical, and warming world

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Ukrainian Health Minister and German Health Minister talk prior to the Ukrainian-German Mental Health and Rehabilitation Conference.

Global Health Politics: Multipolarity Is the New Reality

by Hampus Holmer

Long dominated by the West, global health is changing because of discontent with the past and the return of geopolitics

Pope Francis, G7 leaders and guests attend a session on the second day of the G7 summit at the Borgo Egnazia resort.
Governance

The G7 Exposed the Health Dangers of a Multi-Crisis World

by David P. Fidler

The latest G7 summit revealed the expanding gap between health threats and policy solutions in a world of many crises

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state, attend a meeting.
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Henry Kissinger, Foreign Policy, and Global Health

by David P. Fidler

Kissinger’s legacy informs the U.S. foreign policy experience with global health

DOCUMENT DATE:  February 28, 2020  Travis Hayes, 65, injects what he says is the synthetic drug fentanyl, across the street from where San Francisco mayor London Breed just held a news conference introducing legislation in curbing the rise of deadly overdoses in the city, at the Tenderloin section of San Francisco, California, U.S., February 27, 2020.
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Fentanyl and Foreign Policy

by David P. Fidler

A domestic crisis confronts transnational challenges and geopolitical calculations

U.S. President Joe Biden salutes from Air Force One as he departs for Egypt to attend the COP27 summit from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on November 10, 2022.
Governance

The Midterm Elections and U.S. Policy on Public and Global Health

by David P. Fidler

The elections produced double-edged results for U.S. efforts to strengthen public health at home and abroad

A large yellow biohazard sign on the wall at the bio-containment facility at Spiez Laboratory, available to WHO as a repository for COVID viruses and other pathogens with pandemic potential, in Spiez, Switzerland, June 8, 2022.
Governance

Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention's Contributions to Global Health Security

by Aurelia Attal-Juncqua, Matthew Shearer, Gigi Kwik Gronvall

Countering Russian disinformation creates opportunities to enhance the BWC's role against dangerous pathogens

President Joe Biden delivers a speech at a wooden podium while wearing a dark blue suit with a white shirt and striped tie
Governance

Changing Foreign Policy on Cyberspace: Lessons for U.S. Global Health Engagement

by David P. Fidler

Proposals to transform U.S. cyber foreign policy can inform rethinking global health engagement