Research Catalog

Title

Public-private partnerships for public health / edited by Michael R. Reich.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies : Distirbuted by Harvard University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Reich, Michael, 1950-

Description

ix, 205 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Global health problems require global solutions, and public-private partnerships are increasingly called upon to provide these solutions. Such partnerships involve private corporations in collaboration with governments, international agencies, and non-governmental organizations. They can be very productive, but they also bring their own problems. This volume examines the organizational and ethical challenges of partnerships and suggests ways to address them.
• "This book focuses on public-private partnerships that seek to expand the use of specific products to improve health conditions in poor countries. The volume includes case studies of partnerships involving specific diseases such as trachoma and river blindness, international organizations such as the World Health Organization, multinational pharmaceutical companies, and products such as medicines and vaccines.
• How do organizations with different values, interests, and worldviews come together to resolve critical public health issues? How are shared objectives and shared values created within a partnership? How are relationships of trust fostered and sustained in the face of the inevitable conflicts, uncertainties, and risks of partnership?".
• Individual chapters draw lessons from successful partnerships as well as troubled ones in order to help guide efforts to reduce global health disparities."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Harvard series on population and international health

Uniform Title

Harvard series on population and international health.

Subject

• Private Sector
• Public Health
• Public Sector
• Public health > Miscellanea
• Public health
• Public-private sector cooperation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction: Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health / Michael R. Reich -- Ch. 2. Public-Private Partnerships: Illustrative Examples / Adetokunbo O. Lucas -- Ch. 3. Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative / Diana Barrett, James Austin and Sheila McCarthy -- Ch. 4. The Ethics of Public-Private Partnerships / Marc J. Roberts, A. G. Breitenstein and Clement S. Roberts -- Ch. 5. A Partnership for Ivermectin: Social Worlds and Boundary Objects / Laura Frost, Michael R. Reich and Tomoko Fujisaki -- Ch. 6. The Last Years of the CVI and the Birth of the GAVI / William Muraskin -- Ch. 7. The World Health Organization and Global Public-Private Health Partnerships: In Search of "Good" Global Governance / Kent Buse and Gill Walt.

ISBN

0674008650 (paperback)

LCCN

2001051916

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries