Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health
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Global health problems, one might argue, require global solutions, and public-private partnerships are increasingly called upon to provide these solutions. Such partnerships involve private corporations, governments, international agencies, and non-governmental organisations. They can produce the desired outcomes, but they also bring their own problems. This volume, published in 2002, examines the organisational and ethical challenges of partnerships, and ways to address them. How do organisations with different values, interests, and world-views come together to address and resolve critical public health issues? How are shared objectives and shared values created within a partnership? How are relationships of trust fostered and sustained to address the conflicts, uncertainties, and risks of partnerships?
This book focuses on public-private partnerships that seek to expand the use of specific products to improve health conditions in poor countries. The volume features case studies of international partnerships focusing on diseases such as trachoma and river blindness, international organisations such as the World Health Organization and multinational pharmaceutical companies, and particular technologies such as pharmaceutical products and immunisation. Individual chapters draw lessons from successful as well as troubled partnerships to help guide efforts to reduce global health disparities.
The Tables of contents includes:
This book focuses on public-private partnerships that seek to expand the use of specific products to improve health conditions in poor countries. The volume features case studies of international partnerships focusing on diseases such as trachoma and river blindness, international organisations such as the World Health Organization and multinational pharmaceutical companies, and particular technologies such as pharmaceutical products and immunisation. Individual chapters draw lessons from successful as well as troubled partnerships to help guide efforts to reduce global health disparities.
The Tables of contents includes:
- Preface
- Introduction: Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health (Michael R. Reich)
- Public-Private Partnerships: Illustrative Examples (Adetokunbo O. Lucas)
- Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative (Diana Barrett, James Austin, and Sheila McCarthy)
- The Ethics of Public-Private Partnerships (Marc J. Roberts, A. G. Breitenstein, and Clement S. Robers)
- A Partnership for Ivermectin: Social Worlds and Boundary Objects (Laura Frost, Michael R. Reich, and Tomoko Fujisaki)
- The Last Years of the CVI and the Birth of the GAVI (William Muraskin)
- The World Health Organization and Global Public-Private Health Partnerships: In Search of "Good" Global Governance (Kent Buse and Gill Walt)
- Contributors
- Index