Garrett W. Brown & Gavin Yamey 
The Handbook of Global Health Policy 

The Handbook of Global Health Policy provides a
definitive source of the key areas in the field. It examines the
ethical and practical dimensions of new and current policy models
and their effect on the future development of global health and
policy.

* Maps out key debates and policy structures involved in all
areas of global health policy

* Isolates and examines new policy initiatives in global health
policy

* Provides an examination of these initiatives that captures both
the ethical/critical as well as practical/empirical dimensions
involved with global health policy, global health policy formation
and its implications

* Confronts the theoretical and practical questions of ‘who
gets what and why’ and ‘how, when and
where?’

* Captures the views of a wide array of scholars and
practitioners, including from low- and middle-income countries, to
ensure an inclusive view of current policy debates

About the author

Garrett Wallace Brown is Reader in the Department of
Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of
Grounding Cosmopolitanism: From Kant to the Idea of a
Cosmopolitan Constitution (2009) and co-editor of The
Cosmopolitanism Reader (with David Held, Polity Press,
2010).

Gavin Yamey leads the Evidence to Policy initiative
(E2Pi), a global health policy think tank in the Global Health
Group at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a
frequent commentator on National Public Radio, and has published
over 100 articles in peer-reviewed medical
journals.

Sarah Wamala is the Director-General of the Swedish
National Institute of Public Health and Associate Professor at
Karolinska Institute. She has published extensively on the wider
determinants of health and relevance of preventive strategies and
interventions, and is the editor of Globalization and Health
(with Ichiro Kawachi, 2007).