Global Health Governance and Policy: An Introduction

This is an interdisciplinary textbook that examines the relationship between globalization and social, political, economic, and environmental health determinants. This new edition of Global Health Governance and Policy: An Introduction provides a unique insight into the global systems and processes that ultimately affect peoples' health.

Comprehensive and far-reaching, the book offers a concise overview of the structure, functioning, and the role of the main governmental, intergovernmental, hybrid and non-state transnational actors, analyzing how they shape health policy and governance across the globe. Updated to reflect important changes since the COVID-19 pandemic, this second edition expands the analysis of specific health issues of global relevance, such as ecosystemic challenges, the global transformation of the food-system, the spread of infectious diseases, the tobacco and substance abuse epidemic, human migration, the increasing levels of social and economic inequality, the global financial crisis, and trade and access to drugs. It looks in further depth into digital health and the rise of artificial intelligence, the geopolitical impact of regional conflicts, and the challenge of infodemics.

Providing an overview of health systems in the global landscape, global health financing, and career opportunities in global health, this fascinating textbook is as an essential reading for students of all levels and professionals from a variety of disciplines with and interest in global health.

Eduardo Missoni has decades-long experience in international development cooperation and has pioneered teaching in global health and development in Italy. He currently teaches at the SDA Bocconi School of Management and at the Milano-Bicocca University and the Milano Statale University in Italy. He collaborates with the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Mexico and previously lectured at the Geneva School of Diplomacy.

Guglielmo Pacileo leads the Center for Health Management Studies in the Department of Integrated Research and Innovation Activities (DAIRI), Alessandria. He teaches at SDA Bocconi School of Management and the University of Eastern Piedmont and has lectured at the University of Pavia and Milano-Bicocca. His research focuses on global health policies and healthcare management.

Fabrizio Tediosi is Associate Professor of Global Health at the University of Milan, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. His academic career spans almost three decades of research and teaching on health systems, financing, and governance, with a focus on global health policy and implementation science.