National and Transnational Global Health Policy: Towards a Healthier World

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Papers in this panel consider both national and transnational health phenomena. Together, these contributions survey pressing topics in global health around the world, and outline potential political pathways towards healthier populations. Using survey methods, semi-structured interviews, cross-border comparisons, and document review, the panel seeks answers to important questions on health rights, childhood stunting, wet market regulations, and sexual education. By investigating these topics in different world regions, papers in this panel take us out of the policy contexts of the Global North, and allow us to explore an array of global political contexts, with special attention paid to the intercurrences between the domestic and international governance scales. In the first paper on the panel, Miranda Bain follows Chile’s transition to democracy from the 1990s to today, drawing out relevant patterns in the successes and failures of national policy around sexual education along the way. Also considering political attention, Deviana Dewi explores how and why childhood stunting became a top policy priority in Indonesia, attracting support from both international and domestic actors. Lucia Vitale’s paper similarly considers multiscalar health care provision, but in a different world region. By comparing across the national border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Vitale explores the tensions between health rights and citizenship in a world system that remains oriented towards the latter. Finally, Emma Willoughby’s contribution takes us to yet another world region. In her contribution, Willoughby asks how food marketplaces (“wet markets”) are defined, perceived, and regulated by both domestic and international actors in Vietnam.

Sub Unit

• Division 48: Health Politics & Health Policy

Individual Presentations

• Political Factors Shaping Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Chile - Miranda Bain, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• From Silence to Salience: How Childhood Stunting Became Indonesia’s Priority - Deviana Wijaya Dewi, Johns Hopkins University

• Borders of Health Citizenship: Exclusion along the Dominican-Haitian Border - Lucia Vitale, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Constructing a Wet Market: Historical and Political Insights from Vietnam - Emma Louise Willoughby, University of Michigan

Chair

• Colleen M. Grogan University of Chicago

Discussants

• Alan Zarychta University of Chicago

• Ashley M Fox SUNY at Albany