Protecting and promoting health is inherently a political endeavor that requires a sophisticated understanding of the distribution and use of power. Yet while the global nature of health is widely recognized, its political nature is less well understood. In recent decades, the interdisciplinary field of global health politics has emerged to demonstrate the interconnections of health and core political topics, including foreign and security policy, trade, economics, and development. Today a growing body of scholarship examines how the global health landscape has both shaped and been shaped by political actors and structures.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics provides an authoritative overview and assessment of research on this important and complicated subject. The volume is motivated by two arguments. First, health is not simply a technical subject, requiring evidence-based solutions to real-world problems, but an arena of political contestation where norms, values, and interests also compete and collide. Second, globalization has fundamentally changed the nature of health politics in terms of the ideas, interests, and institutions involved.

The volume comprises more than 30 chapters by leading experts in global health and politics. Each chaper provides an overview of the state of the art on a given theoretical perspective, major actor, or global health issue. The Handbook offers both an excellent introduction to scholars new to the field and also an invaluable teaching and research resource for experts seeking to understand global health politics and its future directions.

Edited by Colin McInnes, Kelley Lee, and Jeremy Youde

Colin McInnes is Professor of International Politics in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.

Kelley Lee is Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.

Jeremy Youde is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Contributors:

Obijiofor Aginam, United Nations University

Solomon Benatar, University of Cape Town & University of Toronto

Stuart Blume, University of Amsterdam

Kent Buse, UNAIDS

Marcos Cueto, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

Sara E. Davies, Griffith University

Christian Enemark, University of Southampton

Joseph Gafton, Queen Mary University of London

Stephen Gill, York University

Jeffrey A. Griffin, University of Nevada, Reno

Rachel Hammonds, University of Antwerp

Tine Hanrieder, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Andrew Harmer, Queen Mary University of London

Sarah Hawkes, University College London

Benjamin Hawkins, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Chris Holden, University of York

Yanzhong Huang, Seton Hall University

Alan Ingram, University College London

Adam Kamradt-Scott, University of Sydney

Jonathan Kennedy, Queen Mary University of London

Akram Khazatzadeh-Mahani, University of Calgary

Ronald Labonte, University of Ottawa

Kelley Lee, Simon Fraser University

Roger Magnusson, University of Sydney

David McCoy, Queen Mary University of London

Colin McInnes, Aberystwyth University

Suerie Moon, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

João Nunes, University of York

Gorik Ooms, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Robert L. Ostergard, Jr., University of Nevada, Reno

Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Arne Ruckert, University of Ottawa

Jennifer Prah Ruger, University of Pennsylvania

Simon Rushton, University of Sheffield

David Sanders, University of the Western Cape & University of Cape Town

Ted Schrecker, Newcastle University

Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Johns Hopkins University

Jeremy Shiffman, Johns Hopkins University

Diego S. Silva, Simon Fraser University & University of Sydney

Frank Smith, University of Sydney

Julia Smith, Simon Fraser University

Stephanie L. Smith, University of New Mexico

Jeremy Snyder, Simon Fraser University

Matthew Sparke, University of California, Santa Cruz

Ellen 't Hoen, University of Groningen

Alan Whiteside, Wilfrid Laurier University

Jeremy Youde, University of Minnesota Duluth