Global Health and the World Health Organization
Table of Contents
Monographs and Chapters………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1
Journal Articles.............................................................................................................................................. 4
Dissertations ................................................................................................................................................. 5
Online Resources................................................................................................................................... 5
Lectures ......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Websites: Information and News Portals ..................................................................................................... 5
Monographs and Chapters
Sunil Amrith, Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-1965
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Review available here.
Sunil Amrith, “Development and Disease: The United Nations and Public Health, c. 1945-55,” in
M. Daunton and F. Trentmann, Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge and power in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries (London: Palgrave, 2004).
Warwick Anderson, Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in
the Philippines, (Duke University Press, 2006).
Review available here.
Alison Bashford, “‘The age of universal contagion’: history, disease and globalization,” in
Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to present, ed. Alison
Bashford (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006).
Yves Beigbeder et al., The World Health Organization (Dordrecht: Matinus Nijhoff Publishers,
1998)
General historical survey of the .World Health Organization, slightly out of date, but informative
nonetheless. This work is particularly noteworthy for its description of the WHO’s
administrative structure, as well as its case-studies approach to research programs.
Gian Luca Burci and Claude-Henri Vignes, World Health Organization (Frederick: Aspen
Publishers, 2004).
Extremely well detailed survey of WHO from legal and administrative aspect, and special focus
on rules and procedures. Excellent bibliography.
Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population
(Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2010).
On UN agencies amongst others and attempts at population control (including India in 1970s).
Review available here. See also Matthew Connelly’s website.
Andrew F. Cooper and John J. Kirton, “Innovation in Global Health Governance,” in Innovation
in Global Health Governance, ed. Andrew F. Cooper and John J. Kirton (Aldershot: Ashgate,
2009), 305-327.
Richard Dodgson, Kelley Lee, and Nick Drager, Global Health Governance: A Conceptual
Review (Geneva: World Health Organization and London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, 2002).
John Farley, Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War (Vancouver:
UBC Press, 2008).
Review here.
Jin Young Kim and Paul Farmer, “Global Issues in Medicine” in Harrison’s Principles of
Internal Medicine 18th Edition, Dan Longo et al. (New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011).
JY Kim, JV Millen, A Irwin and J Gershman, Dying for growth: global inequality and the health
of the poor (Monroe: Common Courage Press, 2000).
Arthur Kleinman, “Critique of Objectivity in International Health,” from Kleinman,
Arthur, Writing At the Margins (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
Kelley Lee, World Health Organization (New York: Routledge, 2009), Introduction, chs 1-2
(Creation of the WHO, Structure and functions), 1-45.
Kelly Lee, Health Impacts of Globalization: Towards Global Governance (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003).
Useful for context on global health through a several case studies, such as the fight against AIDS
and anti-tobacco campaigns.
Kelley Lee, Kent Buse, and Suzanne Fustukian, “An introduction to global health policy,” in
Health Policy in a Globalising World, eds. Kelley Lee, Kent Buse and Suzanne Fustukian
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 3-17.
Ruth Levine ed., Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (Washington D.C.: Center
for Global development, 2004).
Franklyn Lisk, “UNAIDS: Unique UN-System Institutional Partnership for Coordination of the
Global Response to HIV/AIDS,” in Global institutions and the HIV/AIDS epidemic: responding
to an international crisis (New York: Routledge, 2010).
Michael Merson, Robert Black, & Anne Mills, International Public Health: Diseases, Programs,
Systems, and Policies (Gaithersburg: Aspen Publishers, 2001).
Focus on international aspects of global health governance.
Steven Palmer, Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010).
A review by Kathi Nehls can be found here.
Dorothy Porter, Health, Civilization, and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to
Modern Times (New York: Routledge, 1999).
A review with the author’s response can be found here.
Amy Sayward, The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture
Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965 (Kent: Kent State
UP, 2006).
Available with copyright restrictions on Google Books.
Gita Send, Asha George, Piroska Östlin, eds., Engendering International Health: the Challenge
of Equity (Cambridge: MIT, 2002).
Available with copyright restrictions on Google Books.
Javid Siddiqi, World Health and World Politics: The World Health Organization and the UN
System (University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
Available with copyright restrictions on Google Books.
Richard Skolnick, Essentials of Global Health (Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2007).
Excellent primer on critical global health topics.
Available with copyright restrictions on Google Books.
Paul Weindling, International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918-1939 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Available with copyright restrictions on Google Books.
Journal Articles
Sunil Amrith, “In Search Of a Magic Bullet For Tuberculosis: South India and Beyond, c.19551965,” Social History of Medicine 17.1 (2004): 113-130.
Douglas Bettcher and Kelley Lee, “Globalisation and public health,” Journal of Epidemiology
Community Health 56 (2002): 8-17.
John Cohen, (2006) “The New World of Global Health,” Science (2006): 162-167.
Jon Cohen, “Gates Foundation Rearranges the Public Health Universe,” Science 295, no. 5562
(2002): 2000-2001.
David P. Fidler, “Architecture amidst Anarchy: Global Health’s Quest for Governance,” Global
Health Governance Journal 1.1 (2007): 1-17.
David P. Fidler, “Globalization, International Law, and Emerging Diseases,” Emerging
Infectious Diseases 2.1 (1996): 77-84.
Julio Frenk and Octavio Gómez-Dantés, “Globalization and the Challenges to Health Systems,”
Health Affairs 21.1 (2002): 160-165.
Lawrence Gostin and Emily Mok, “Grand challenges in global health governance,” British
Medical Bulletin 90.1 (2009): 7-18.
Paul Greenough, “Intimidation, Coercion, and Resistance in the Final Stages of the South Asian
Smallpox Eradication Campaign, 1973-1975,” Social Science and Medicine 41.5 (1995), 633645.
WC. Hsiao, (2003) “What is a Health System? Why Should We Care?” Harvard School of
Public Health Working Paper.
Ronald Labonte and Renee Torgerson, “Interrogating globalization, health and development:
Towards a comprehensive framework for research, policy and political action,” Critical Public
Health 15.2 (2005): 157-179.
Kelley Lee and Richard Dodgson, “Globalization and Cholera: Implications for Global
Governance,” Global Governance 6.2 (2000): 213-236.
Roger S. Magnusson, “Non-communicable diseases and global health governance: enhancing
global processes to improve health development,” Globalization and Health 3.2 (2007).
L. Magnussen, J. Ehiri, P. Jolly, “Comprehensive versus selective primary health care: lessons
for global health policy,” Health Affairs 23.3 (2004): 167-76.
Susan Okie, “Global Health –The Gates-Buffet Effect,” New England Journal of Medicine
355.11 (2006): 1084-1088.
Randall Packard, “Malaria Dreams: Postwar Visions of Health and Development in the Third
World,” Medical Anthropology 17 (1997): 279-296.
Elizabeth Prescott, “The Politics of Disease: Governance and Emerging Infections,” Global
Health Governance 1.1 (2007): 1-8.
M.R. Reich, K. Takemi, M.J. Roberts, W.C. Hsiao, “Global action on health systems: a proposal
for the Toyako G8 summit,” The Lancet 371 (2008): 865-869.
JP Ruger, “The Changing Role of the World Bank in Global Health,” American Journal of
Public Health 95.1 (2005): 60-70.
Darwin Stapleton, “Lessons of history? Anti-malaria Strategies of the International Health Board
and the Rockefeller Foundation from the 1920s to the era of DDT,” Public Health Reports
(1974): 206-15.
Gill Walt, “Globalisation of international health,” The Lancet 351 (1998): 434-437.
Dissertations
Benjamin Meier, The Highest Attainable Standard: The World Health Organization, Global
Health Governance, and the Contentious Politics of Human Rights (2009).
Critical look at WHO policies with special focus on Human Rights.
Online Resources
Lectures
Paul farmer, “Colonial medicine vs. post-colonial medicine and their legacies: Facts and Myths.”
Lecture, Harvard University. September 15, 2009.
Websites: Information and News Portals
The Communication Initiative Network: http://www.comminit.com/global
News and official information relay portal followed by activists, NGOs, international
organizations, with particular focus on global health.
GlobeMed Online Google Site
GlobeMed resource site. Includes material relevant to understanding global health
World Bank – Health, Nutrition & Population
New York Times Topics
Features all articles on written by the NYT on the WHO and Global Health news
Portal to a variety of websites on public health
History of Public Health
Excellent portal to multimedia material on public health
Human Virology at Stanford
Excellent collection of primers
John Snow site Ralph Frerichs, History, Maps and the Internet: UCLA’s
On epidemiological tracking
The Global Health Chronicles
Collection of primary source documents on a few global health subjects
Global Health Hub
Online portal and news aggregate for global health and development
Case Studies for Global Health
Series of multi-sector case studies to identify ways in which key stakeholders can address global
health concerns.
WHO online collection
List of collections, special collections, and list of research subjects
Books contributed by WHO to Internet Archive (archive.org)
Available in PDF
WHO Youtube Channel
WHO photogallery: see also here
WHO 60 photo project
Official WHO histories:
WHO Global Health Histories:
The Third Ten Years of the World Health Organization
The Second Ten Years of the World Health Organization
The First Ten Years of the World Health Organization
WHO Global Health Histories – Lunchtime Seminars:
2011 (Reproductive Rights)
2010 (Global Public Health, emerging issues)
2009 (Tropical Diseases)
2008 (WHO 60th Anniversary)
2005-2007
Official Records Relating to the Founding of the WHO
Official records relating to the founding of the WHO including minutes of preparatory
committees and expert reports.
WHO Knowledge Databases can be found here and here.
WHO Archives
World Health Organization, Records and Archives
Avenue Appia 20
1211 Genève 27
Switzerland
For League of Nations Health Organization archives click here.