Memo: Averting a Crisis in Global Health: 3 Actions for the G20 (2009)

Full Title: Averting a Crisis in Global Health: 3 Actions for the G20

Author: Ngaire Woods

Type: Memo

Abstract

A relatively small amount of financing for essential services and minor policy adjustments in international institutions could prevent a developing country health crisis. These policy adjustments would serve to strengthen the regulatory framework to protect health, just as the G20 is working to strengthen regulations that protect financial stability and promote recovery. In a new GEG brief, Rajaie Batniji and Ngaire Woods make three urgent recommendations to the G20 for preventing the financial crisis from turning into a health crisis. Click here to access the full brief.

Author Bio

Professor Ngaire Woods is the inaugural Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of International Political Economy. Her research focuses on global economic governance, the challenges of globalization, global development, and the role of international institutions. She founded and is the Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme. She is co-founder (with Robert O. Keohane) of the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. She lead the creation of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and, before her appointment as Dean, served as the School’s Academic Director.

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