Power in Global Health Agenda-Setting: The Role of Private Funding; Comment on “Knowledge, Moral Claims and the Exercise of Power in Global Health”

Document Type : Commentary

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Global Development and Population Program, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Abstract

The editorial by Jeremy Shiffman, “Knowledge, moral claims and the exercise of power in global health”, highlights the influence on global health priority-setting of individuals and organizations that do not have a formal political mandate. This sheds light on the way key functions in global health depend on private funding, particularly from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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  • Receive Date: 13 February 2015
  • Revise Date: 04 March 2015
  • Accept Date: 03 March 2015
  • First Publish Date: 01 May 2015

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