Health Diplomacy and Global Health

Abstract

We will analyze and comment on the book Health Diplomacy and Global Health: Latin American Perspectives, edited by Paulo Marchiori Buss and Sebastián Tobar and published by Editora Fiocruz. Throughout its 653 pages, the book brings prominent national and foreign authors in the field of Health Diplomacy and Global Health, depicting a decade in which Brazil had great international protagonism in the field of Public Health, especially in South-South cooperation, in an innovative and structuring manner. Furthermore, the chapters present theoretical aspects and basic principles of Global Health as a new field of knowledge, in which the country has been developing and sharing scientific production with a Latin American perspective, focused on the pursuit of equity and health for all peoples of the world.

Decolonizing Science Diplomacy: A Case Study of the Dominican Republic’s COVID-19 Response

“…The perspectives of science diplomacy from the Global South must be visible in academic literature to provide a complete perspective of the challenges and benefits associated with science diplomacy, especially in global health crises. Sharing these experiences as other Latin American countries like Brazil has done ( Riveiro and de Freitas Lima Ventura, 2019 ) can also foster much needed regional cooperation among Global South countries that may share substantial similarities in terms of legal, healthcare, and academic systems. Several authors ( Quadir, 2013 ; Beleboni, 2019 ) state that South-South cooperation, which is often knowledge-based, creates conditions for countries to strengthen local capacities and design context-adapted strategies.…”

“Digital Health Diplomacy” in Global Digital Health? A call for critique and discourse

“…The values underpinning DHD must include mutual trust and respect with clear guidelines to promote and preserve technological sovereignty while avoiding the replication of colonial structures that ignore the needs of developing countries. 51 For example, discussions around the WHO resolution on "eHealth standardization and interoperability" saw several international state actors (including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia) advocate that the domain name ".health" not be regulated by the United Nations (or WHO), and instead be left to the agenda of commercial (non-state) actors. 52 In another example, developed donor nations sometimes use conditional foreign aid (in the form of inappropriate digital health solutions) to coerce developing nations to behave against their sovereign interests.…”

Factors affecting the emergence of diplomacy in Iranian nurse managers: a qualitative study

“…Healthcare systems must manage these problems and challenges through harmonious relationships among different healthcare providers (Hanefeld 2016). Establishment and management of such relationships largely depend on the use of diplomacy (Ribeiro & Ventura 2019).…”

“…Despite no academic education about diplomacy and the non‐inclusion of diplomatic activities in their job descriptions, they have been able to significantly affect health policies significantly by being diplomatic (Tourani et al 2017). Studies mainly refer to diplomacy in nursing either as one of the leadership skills (Prestia 2017) or its application in global health diplomacy (Ribeiro & Ventura 2019), but diplomacy has been less mentioned as an independent role of nurse managers in the health system.…”

“…In addition to its application in health care, diplomacy in scientific articles has been referred to health diplomacy or global health diplomacy. This concept was created following the effects of globalization on health, which identified a new form of diplomacy that countries tried to use for political purposes and improvement of international communications (Ribeiro & Ventura 2019).…”