Links to Other Articles

I posted a number of articles in the Gems section worth taking a look at including:
- My excerpt on HIV/AIDS from my dissertation which provides a preliminary look at the relative contributions of four of the major G-7 countries’ contributions to the Global Fund (U.S., Japan, Germany, and the UK).

- Peter Singer’s 2004 Survival article [...]

2005 Health in Foreign Policy Forum

February 4, 2005 coming up on health and foreign policy in Washington DC with a pretty heady cast of policy types.
Feb 8 UPDATE: Webcast and transcript to be posted.

Washington Post AIDS in Africa Links

The Washington Post has a link to hundreds of stories tracking HIV/AIDS and international responses in Africa over the past four or five years. They have a great and sad six-part series from 2000-2001 called Death Watch. Links are down for it, but I’ll try to post them separately when I can find [...]

The Next Wave of HIV/AIDS: Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, India, and China

This 2002 National Intelligence Council report warned of a wave of new infections from China, Russia, India and other places. Very scary, and a good source of information.

The Global Threat of New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Reconciling U.S. National Security and Public Health Policy

This is a 2003 RAND study, another effort making the case that AIDS is a security threat, using the idea of human security. The paper has a case on South Africa and also a strong emphasis on U.S. foreign policy.

Health and Security: Why It Should Top the Agenda

Here is a transcript
from a December 2004 Council on Foreign Relations event on health and
security, featuring Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Invisible People

by Greg Berhman
This Council on Foreign Relations book
came out in 2004. Here is part of the blurb from the publisher. My own
review forthcoming. All I know is that this guy is about 25, which is
extremely annoying!
“The Invisible People
is a revealing and at times shocking look inside the United States’s
response to one of the [...]

HIV /AIDS AS A SECURITY ISSUE

This 2001 International Crisis Group report uses the metaphor of war
and elastic definition of security (personal, economic, communal,
national and international) to convince policymakers to pay attention
to the problem.

Why Health Is Important to U.S. Foreign Policy

This 2001 paper
by Jordan Kassalow published by the Council on Foreign Relations and
the Milbank Memorial Fund argues that health policy should be a U.S.
foreign policy priority, part of the effort to link health issues to
higher profile issues likely to command the attention of
decision-makers.

THE 2005 SUMMER INSTITUTE IN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

at Stanford University July 10-29, 2005 Stanford University is very pleased to announce that it will host the 2005 Summer Institute in Political Psychology, reviving a tradition that was created by Margaret Hermann and carried out at the Ohio State University each summer from 1991 through 2002. This year’s Institute is sponsored by the National [...]

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