The global crisis and global health

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic is considerably the biggest global health challenge of this modern era. Spreading across all regions of the world, this corona virus disease has disrupted even some of the most advanced economies and healthcare systems. With an increasing global death toll and no near end in sight, questions on the efficacy of global response mechanisms, including the role and relevancy of global health institutions, have emerged. Using a reflexive content analytic approach, this study sheds light on some of these questions, underscoring the disconnect between science, policymaking, and society. Global health funding approaches; politicization of the pandemic, including political blame gaming; mistrust of government and other institutions; and a lack of robust accountability measures are some of the pandemic response obstacles. However, COVID-19 has also presented an opportunity for a collaboration that may potentially solidify global solidarity. A pandemic response built on strategic global health diplomacy, vaccine diplomacy, and science diplomacy can spur both political and economic benefits, advancing development, health security, and justice. The virus thrives and flourishes in face of political divisions and lack of cooperation. While the current global crisis has exacerbated the existing social injustices in societies, national unity and global solidarity is essential to winning the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A Global Crisis in a Contested Space: Curating the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival 2020

Acotaciones Investigación y Creación Teatral ◽

10.32621/acotaciones.2021.46.01 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (46) ◽

pp. 19-43

Author(s):

Ellada Evangelou

Keyword(s):

Global Health ◽

Performing Arts ◽

The Other ◽

Global Crisis ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Contested Space ◽

Arts Festival ◽

Political Act ◽

The Stranger

The article aims to examine the interconnectedness between a global health crisis and a performing arts festival, within a contested space. The COVID-19 global health crisis interacted with the geogra-phy of Cyprus and Nicosia, a space defined by its separating line, in the context of the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival 2020. As a result, part of the theatrical praxis has come to be re-defined based on the new emergency of the global health crisis. It has reframed much of the praxis that rests in the gap between a political act and an interventionist practice. The article firstly presents the curatorial approach as that emerged from the 2019 Festival with the interplay between methodology and con-tent, leading to the formulation and implementation of the 2020 festival as a physical and digital event in the midst of the pandemic. The maneu-vering through the limitations of the health crisis, fostered processes of newly formulating the Open Call, cancelling and postponing, creating new norms and conditions to maintain the inclusive character of the Festival and create new audiences. This process resulted in redefining the contested space itself, and the notions of the ‘marginal’, the ‘stranger’ and the ‘other’ in Cyprus, as well as part of the digital and international dimensions of the Festival.

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China’s innovation-based approach in the fight of Covid-19. An estimation of China’s impact for global health to come

Academicus International Scientific Journal ◽

10.7336/academicus.2022.25.02 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 25 ◽

pp. 24-44

Author(s):

Josie-Marie Perkuhn

Keyword(s):

Global Health ◽

International Cooperation ◽

New Technologies ◽

Political Agenda ◽

Global Health Governance ◽

Health Governance ◽

Current Crisis ◽

Global Crisis ◽

Intelligent Robots ◽

To Come

When the infectious coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 broke out it resulted in a global crisis. In the fight of Covid-19, China’s government relied on its strength to apply new technologies, i.e. for controlling and containment of the virus by tracing and tracking Chinese citizens. Relying on the trajectory of industrialisation, China has pursued a path of innovation. While it is reasoned that China’s advantage might have origin in the experience of the SARS outbreak almost two decades ago, this article argues that mainly China’s innovation- driven climate has favoured the application of new technologies in combatting the current crisis. Based on the innovation-driven trajectory this article explores China’s pathway out the corona crisis and how this might strengthen China’s role in global health governance. In order to pursue this aim, this article explores several areas, in which the next generation of technologies, such as AI-based diagnostic or intelligent robots were applied and concludes with an outlook based on the formulated political agenda, strategic considerations and initial international cooperation regarding China’s impact for global health.

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