TY - JOUR ID - 3258 TI - Business as Usual: A Lack of Institutional Innovation in Global Health Governance; Comment on “Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Lee, Kelley AD - Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 6 IS - 3 SP - 165 EP - 168 KW - Global Health Governance (GHG) KW - World Health Organization (WHO) Reform KW - Globalization KW - Institutional Innovation DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.113 N2 - There were once again high expectations that a major global health event - the Ebola virus outbreak of 2014-2015 - would trigger meaningfully World Health Organization (WHO) reform and strengthen global health governance (GHG). Rather than a “turning point,” however, the global community has gone back to business as usual. This has occurred against a backdrop of worldwide political turmoil, characterised by a growing rejection of existing political leaders and state-centric institutions. Debates about GHG so far have given insufficient attention to the need for institutional innovation. This entails rethinking the traditional bureaucratic model of postwar intergovernmental organizations which is disconnected from the transboundary, fast-paced nature of today’s globalizing world. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3258.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3258_9adc9a35de478ccd95a5b23b5c08839a.pdf ER -