This annotated bibliography examines critical research on global health security funding mechanisms and policy frameworks. The sources analyze the convergence between global health security and universal health coverage, identifying funding gaps in current vertical disease programs. Key findings reveal that workforce development, laboratory systems, and antimicrobial resistance represent major funding priorities, while policy reforms and international cooperation emerge as essential strategies for strengthening pandemic preparedness.
Assefa, Y., Hill, P.S., Gilks, C.F., Van Damme, W., van de Pas, R., Woldeyohannes, S. & Reid, S. (2020). Global health security and universal health coverage: Understanding convergences and divergences for a synergistic response. PLoS ONE,15(12), 1-16.
These researchers identify global health security and universal health coverage as major global health agendas. However, these two concepts have tensions between them, which in turn affects the level of funding for global public health security. The study concluded that the achievement of global health security is impossible without universal health coverage. Therefore, strengthening global health security requires improving funding for universal health coverage. The article will be utilized in the present study to identify areas of funding for improved global health security.
Blinken, A.J. & Becerra, X. (2021). Strengthening global health security and reforming the international health regulations: Making the world safer from future pandemics. JAMA, 326(13), 1255-1256.
The article discusses how the world can be made safer from future health risks and emergencies through the advancement of global public health security. The authors suggests that the global health security can be strengthened by reforming existing policies relating to global health. They recommend the creation of a system of international law and cooperation to strengthen cooperation across geographical boundaries. Insights obtained from this article will be used in the present study to propose policy changes relating to funding for domestic and global public health.
Boyce, M.R., Attal-Juncqua, A., Lin, J., McKay, S. & Katz, R. (2021). Global Fund contributions to health security in ten countries, 2014-20: Mapping synergies between vertical disease programmes and capacities for preventing, detecting, and responding to public health emergencies. The Lancet, 9(2), E181-E188.
These researchers sought to examine how vertical global health programmes financially support global health security. By examining budgets in ten countries, the study found that workforce development, laboratory systems and antimicrobial resistance account for the greatest amount of funding. This implies that a significant portion of the Global Fund is not specifically directed for global public health security. Insights from this article will be used to understand current gaps in funding for domestic and global health security.
Bunnell, R.E., Ahmed, Z., Ramsden, M., Rapposelli, K., Walter-Garcia, M., Sharmin, E. & Knight, N. (2018). Global health security: Protecting the United States in an interconnected world. Public Health Reports, 134(1), 3-10.
This article examines how relevant stakeholders in the U.S. healthcare industry can safeguard the country from health challenges in an increasingly interconnected world. The authors recognize that enhancing global health security is critical toward protecting the health and wellbeing of U.S. citizens. It concludes that key stakeholders like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should create partnerships at all levels and jurisdictions as part of advancement of global health security. Such partnerships will help protect the country and the world from devastating health and economic effects of health risks and public health emergencies. This article will be used in the present study to highlight the significance of stakeholder partnerships in enhancing global health security.
Friedman et al. (2020). Global health in the age of COVID-19: Responsive health systems through a right to health fund. Health and Human Rights Journal, 22(1), 199-207.
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