All posts by Dr. Rosalind Warner

My background includes graduate work in Political Science at York University's Centre for International and Security Studies, a one-year travel-study tour around the world focused on issues of peace and conflict resolution, and almost 30 years of teaching subjects from International Development to Canadian government. Recent publication includes Canadian Ecopolitics (2025 University of Toronto Press). I have researched and published on topics like ecological modernization, global environmental governance issues, protected areas governance in North America, environmental discourses, disaster risk reduction, global health, and environment and trade in Canadian foreign policy. I am Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, past editor of Unsettled Balance: Ethics, Security and Canada’s International Relations, and Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy, both with UBC Press. Recent article: Governance for resilience: Canada and global disaster risk reduction, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 26:3, 330-344, DOI: 10.1080/11926422.2019.1699129. I am Co-Director, along with Andy Knight, of the Canadian Defence and Security network’s Global Health Security Theme. I am a Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance Project, and Board Member of the Canadian Environmental Network. I speak and write publicly often on political issues of the day. All views my own.

Global Political Economy, Trade, US Politics

The Politics of Capitalism in the Trump Era

November 21, 2025 Dr. Rosalind Warner

Explore the dramatic evolution of capitalism and its transformation in the Trump era. This talk demystifies what capitalism really is, how it functions, and how it impacts states, global systems, and everyday people. Using a political science perspective, we’ll examine how recent political shifts have challenged old assumptions and reshaped power dynamics.

Astvansh, V. (2025, July 3). Chatbots are on the rise, but customers still trust human agents more. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAM.cep9hdvph

Bell, P. (2024, June 24). Public Trust in Government: 1958-2024. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/24/public-trust-in-government-1958-2024/

Cardinale, K. (n.d.). The making of a Tech Authoritarian. From Plato to Trumpism. Retrieved from https://www.lettsjournal.com/p/the-making-of-a-tech-authoritarian

Cloyne, J., Kurt, E., & Surico, P. (2025). Who gains from corporate tax cuts? Journal of Monetary Economics, 149, 103722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103722

Guys, T. I. (2025, August 21). The State of AI in the Workplace in 2025: Why 170 Million New Jobs Will Offset the ‘AI Apocalypse’ – A Comprehensive Research Report – The Interview Guys. https://blog.theinterviewguys.com/the-state-of-ai-in-the-workplace-in-2025/

How AI is poised to disrupt the job market. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 November 2025, from https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/08/how-ai-is-poised-to-disrupt-the-job-market.html

How Tariffs Are Affecting Prices in 2025. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 November 2025, from https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/oct/how-tariffs-are-affecting-prices-2025

How Will AI Affect the Global Workforce? | Goldman Sachs. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 November 2025, from https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/how-will-ai-affect-the-global-workforce

LA Times. (n.d.). Reality TV workers face a bleak job market amid production decline—Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 November 2024, from https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-08-05/the-hollywood-production-collapses-latest-victim-why-the-reality-tv-bubble-finally-burst

Live Science. (2022, May 3). The Universe Could Start Shrinking ‘Remarkably’ Soon, Scientists Say. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-universe-could-start-shrinking-remarkably-soon

McDonnell, G. (2015). What Caused Airline Deregulation: Economists or Economics?19(3).

McGreal, C. (2025, January 26). How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa

Miao, H. (2020, November 19). Walmart and McDonald’s are among top employers of Medicaid and food stamp beneficiaries, report says. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-top-employers-of-medicaid-and-food-stamp-beneficiaries.html

Ranked: Global Share of Manufacturing Value, by Country –. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 November 2025, from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-global-share-of-manufacturing-value-by-country/

Real Estate Trends in Canada for 2025: Insights from ULI’s Annual Report. (n.d.). Coldwell Banker Horizon Realty. Retrieved 21 November 2025, from https://www.kelownarealestate.com/blog-posts/real-estate-trends-in-canada-for-2025-insights-from-ulis-annual-report

Review, T. R., & Nichols, J. (2023, July 17). Is It Time to Re-Fuel Airline Regulation? | The Regulatory Review. https://www.theregreview.org/2023/07/17/nichols-is-it-time-to-re-fuel-airline-regulation/

Santos, C. (2024, June 11). Chipotle’s CEO Responded To Claims About Portion Sizes. https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiasantos/chipotle-ceo-small-portions-response

Saric, I. (2024, August 13). U.S. theme parks are emptier as costs surge and travelers go global. Axios. https://www.axios.com/2024/08/13/theme-disney-universal-parks-visitor-decline

The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok | WIRED. (n.d.). Retrieved 19 November 2024, from https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

The Walton Family: The Dynasty Behind the Walmart Empire. (2023, June 28). https://quartr.com/insights/business-philosophy/the-walton-family-the-dynasty-behind-the-walmart-empire

UJET Research Reveals Chatbots Increase Frustration for 80% of Consumers. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://ujet.cx/press-releases/ujet-research-reveals-chatbots-increase-frustration

US AI revenue in 2025 nearly double closest competitor – analysis. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-ai-revenue-2025-nearly-141217858.html?guccounter=1

What’s at Stake in Canada’s Immigration Pullback. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/news/whats-at-stake-in-canadas-immigration-pullback

Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—And How to Bring It Back | Watson School of International and Public Affairs. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://home.watson.brown.edu/research/research-briefs/why-nothing-works

democracy, Global Political Economy, Globalization, Human Rights, political theory, US Politics

Orchestrating Chaos: Trump and the US 2024 Election

February 7, 2025 Dr. Rosalind Warner

While political scientists know alot, the 2024 election shows that we clearly don’t know everything! The same can be said for our political leaders. In this session we will think about what we have learned and what we still need to learn about elections and forming governments in a democracy after November 2024. Talk February 7 2025

Further Reading/Viewing

Ahmed, N. (2017, July 30). Pentagon study declares American empire is ‘collapsing’. Canadian Dimension. https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/pentagon-study-declares-american-empire-is-collapsing

Bambrough, B. (2025, February 2). ‘This Needs To Stop Now’—Elon Musk Confirms Radical Doge U.S. Treasury Plan. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/02/this-needs-to-stop-now-elon-musk-confirms-radical-doge-us-treasury-plan/?utm_source=pocket_shared

Beauchamp, Z. (2024, November 20). The messy contradictions of Trump’s second-term coalition | Vox. Vox.Com. https://www.vox.com/politics/386299/trump-administration-coalition-economic-foreign-policy

Cardinale, K. (2022, May 25). The making of a Tech Authoritarian. From Plato to Trumpism.https://www.lettsjournal.com/p/the-making-of-a-tech-authoritarian

Cosmo (Director). (2025, January 20). The Secret Life of Chaos | Beyond Order [Video recording]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inofGyvshoQ

Dalhousie University (Director). (2024, November 20). The 2024 Stanfield Conversation: The US Election and Democracy’s Global Fate | Dalhousie University [Video recording]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMgA_oJ3mDE

Danner, C. (2025, February 3). Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number. Intelligencer. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-doge-treasury-access-federal-payments.html

Davis, C. (2024, October 6). Why aren’t we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? [Substack newsletter]. Matriarchal Blessing. https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-college

Elliott, V. (2025, February 2). The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

Garcia, I. (2022, October 12). U.S. Senate: Blake Masters dislikes the country’s direction. Cronkite News. https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2022/10/12/us-senate-blake-masters-republican-arizona-venture-capitalist/

Jacobs, B. (2022, May 20). How Gen X Became the Trumpiest Generation. POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/20/cherie-westrich-alt-rock-gen-x-maga-00033769

Levitsky, S., & Ziblatt, D. (2018). How Democracies Die. Crown Publishers.

McMaster, G. (2024, June 29). Four critical things to know about critical race theory. University of Alberta Folio. https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2022/06/four-critical-things-to-know-about-critical-race-theory.html?utm_source=pocket_shared

Monbiot, G. (2024, January 6). What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network

Reich, R. (2025, January 26). The stunning real story behind Trump’s first week—Alternet.org. Alternet. https://www.alternet.org/trumps-first-week/

Sam Friedman, D. L. (2020). The Class Ceiling. Bristol University Press. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/the-class-ceiling

Schuman, M. (2024, November 9). The American Global Order Could End. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/us-world-power-over-election/680595/

Shapiro, A. (2022, October 3). Come along as we connect the dots between climate, migration and the far-right. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1125746902/climate-change-migration-far-right-political-extremism

Slobodian, Q. (2023, April 4). The Wonderful Death of a State | Quinn Slobodian. The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-wonderful-death-of-a-state-slobodian

The Ezra Klein Show (Director). (2025, February 4). Don’t Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show [Video recording]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QLgLfqh6s

Tusikov, N. (2025). How Might Trump’s Big Tech Agenda Affect Canada? Centre for International Governance Innovation. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/how-might-trumps-big-tech-agenda-affect-canada/

Waller, J. G. (2022, February 20). Authoritarianism Here? American Affairs Journal. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/authoritarianism-here/

Global Health Security, Human Rights, Inequality, World Politics

Health, Peace, and the Summit of the Future: A Wake-Up Call

December 3, 2024 Dr. Rosalind Warner

The Summit of the Future laid bare the stark reality of our global predicament. As young voices echoed through the halls, pleading for a better world, the disconnect between rhetoric and action was palpable. With a mere 16% of SDG targets on track for 2030, the clock is ticking, and the world is falling behind.

Leaders paraded their support for renewed efforts, yet their messages blurred into a cacophony of sameness. The elephant in the room remained unaddressed: If we can’t collaborate here, where can we? Who will step up to forge the future we desperately need?

This was nowhere more apparent than in the connections between Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions). While there is a stronger recent focus on the link between health and economic or climate goals, the mutually reinforcing goals of health and peace are sometimes overlooked. The ‘siloes’ of politics and strategy operate separately from those of health professions, public health experts, and socioeconomics. Despite the overlaps, there is little discussion between the two communities.

In 1981, the World Health Assembly acknowledged that the role of physicians and other health workers in the preservation and promotion of peace is “the most important factor for attainment of health for all.” Similar initiatives include the World Health Organization’s Peace Through Health plan, begun in the 1990s; and the Health as a Bridge for Peace (HBP) framework, was formally accepted by the 51st World Health Assembly in 1998.

But the onus should not only be on the health sector: diplomats, security experts and foreign policy analysts should note the importance of the connection between health and peace. Similarly to the women, peace and security agenda, the health and peace agenda enables ‘multi-solving’ by addressing the root causes of violence and conflict. Protecting health security inoculates against violence in its many forms. Attention to health security during post-conflict reconstruction reduces the potential for violence to feed into vicious cycles of retribution.

The pandemic exposed the critical need for global health diplomacy. Instead of uniting against a common threat, leaders retreated into nationalist health security postures, squandering chances for conflict resolution through health diplomacy.

^{Dr. Jeffrey Sachs speaks at the Pre-Summit of the Future at Columbia University, September 2024}

Amidst the gloom, glimmers of progress shine through:

On September 21^st 2024, the International Day of Peace, as part of the UN General Assembly Action Days, I was struck by the comments of Juan Manuel Santos, Former President of Colombia and 2016 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. He noted the strong connection between health and peace when he observed the way in which the civil war conflict in Colombia changed over time. As he said, “when soldiers were taken to hospital instead of being killed, it changed the dynamic: when one could trust that the other side would respect their humanity, the level of trust rose on all sides. The ‘enemy’ became human.”

Similarly, in 1859 when Swiss businessman Henri Dunant heard the cries of the wounded on the plains following the Battle of Solferino and called for a halt in the fighting to organize aid, a shift took place that changed the world forever. Dunant’s proposal to create national relief societies to provide neutral and impartial care during conflicts led to the formation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863 and the adoption of the first Geneva Convention in 1864. Ever since, heeding the needs for health has been a powerful lever for upsetting the vicious cycle of violence. In September, fighting was paused in Gaza to enable the vaccination of 640,000 children from the scourge of polio. This effort was not an outlier: the World Health Organization has assisted with vaccine drives during humanitarian crises in many other parts of the world, including the Congo in 1999, where the immunization-related days of tranquility enabled the vaccination of 80% of 10 million children younger than 5 years.

To break the cycle of violence and create a healthier, more peaceful world, we must:

1. Deploy dedicated health diplomats to navigate the geopolitical minefield

2. Revitalize human rights and the Geneva Conventions, prioritizing protection for healthcare workers in conflict zones

3. Boost Official Development Assistance (ODA) for health systems (currently a paltry 0.37% of OECD GNI)

4. Educate relentlessly on the health-peace connection

The Pact for the Future offers a chance to recognize that investing in health creates a powerful multiplier effect on peace. It’s time to move beyond lofty declarations and take decisive action. The future we promised to safeguard is now, and it’s slipping through our fingers.

Anthropocene, Disasters, World Politics

Are we entering a new Dark Age?

November 27, 2024 Dr. Rosalind Warner

Through time and across civilizations we will explore the cyclical nature of societal decline. Drawing parallels between the English Civil War, the fall of Islamic Civilization, and the onset of the Medieval Era in Europe, and similar periods of regression elsewhere. We’ll also examine the critical roles of knowledge, communication and education in sustaining civilization. Amidst the contemporary challenges of disinformation, eroding political trust, and deepening inequality, we’ll look down the dark corridors of history to find lessons that can guide us in preventing a modern descent into a new Dark Age.

Talk to SLR November 28th, 2024

References and Further Reading

Ahmed, N. (2024, November 8). Trump’s America: The Fulcrum of a Global ‘Network War’ on Democracy. Byline Times. https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/08/trumps-america-the-fulcrum-of-a-global-network-war-on-democracy/

Democracy index. (May 2024). Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu

Fazio, L. K., Rand, D. G., & Pennycook, G. (2019). Repetition increases perceived truth equally for plausible and implausible statements. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(5), 1705–1710. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01651-4

Khan, M. (2024, October 22). Why Ibn Khaldun Still Matters. New Lines Institute. https://newlinesinstitute.org/geo-economics/why-ibn-khaldun-still-matters/

LA Times. (2024). Reality TV workers face a bleak job market amid production decline—Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-08-05/the-hollywood-production-collapses-latest-victim-why-the-reality-tv-bubble-finally-burst

Live Science. (2022, May 3). The Universe Could Start Shrinking ‘Remarkably’ Soon, Scientists Say. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-universe-could-start-shrinking-remarkably-soon

Medill’s 2024 State of Local News report expands what it qualifies as local news—And asks readers to point out what it missed. (October 23, 2024). Nieman Lab. https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/medills-2024-state-of-local-news-report-expands-what-it-qualifies-as-local-news-and-asks-readers-to-point-out-what-it-missed

Oswald, L., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Hertwig, R., & Lewandowsky, S. (2022, November 7). Is the global decline in democracy linked to social media? We combed through the evidence to find out. The Conversation. http://theconversation.com/is-the-global-decline-in-democracy-linked-to-social-media-we-combed-through-the-evidence-to-find-out-193841

Park, M., Leahey, E., & Funk, R. J. (2023). Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time. Nature, 613(7942), 138–144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05543-x

Sagan, C., (2011). The Demon-Haunted World Random House Publishing Group

Santos, C. (2024, June 11). Chipotle’s CEO Responded To Claims About Portion Sizes. https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiasantos/chipotle-ceo-small-portions-response

Saric, I. (2024, August 13). U.S. theme parks are emptier as costs surge and travelers go global. Axios. https://www.axios.com/2024/08/13/theme-disney-universal-parks-visitor-decline

Teen Mental Health Facts and Statistics 2024. (2024). https://blog.compasshealthcenter.net/teen-mental-health-statistics

The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok | WIRED. (2022). https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

What do historians lose with the decline of local news? | History Today. (May 5 2023). https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/what-do-historians-lose-decline-local-news

West, D. How disinformation defined the 2024 election narrative. (November 7, 2024). Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-disinformation-defined-the-2024-election-narrative/

Why is emotional distress rising worldwide? – Big Think. (April 3, 2023). https://bigthink.com/the-present/emotional-distress-is-rising-worldwide/

Yoni Appelbaum: Americans Aren’t Practicing Democracy—The Atlantic. (2018). https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/losing-the-democratic-habit/568336/

Global Health Security, Sustainable Development

Working Towards a Definition that Works: Planetary Health

November 11, 2024 Dr. Rosalind Warner

The concept of planetary health has recently joined a plethora of new vocabulary that sparks new meanings and imaginaries about what constitutes health, what parts of the planet we value, and what the aspirations are for the human and the non-human family. As a social imaginary, planetary health is concerned with issues and problems that are related, but simultaneously embedded with systems of social, economic, political, and environmental architectures of order and change. This video uses the metaphor of planetary health to improve understanding of planetary health as a state of well-being, optimal functioning and system thriving.

Video presentation for “Exploring “Planetary Health” in the Context of Earth System Governance” Innovative Session for Earth System Governance Annual Conference, Radboud the Netherlands with Prof Kathryn Bowen, The University of Melbourne, Dr Belle Workman, The University of Melbourne – accepted Innovative Session proposal to the 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance (online), October 2023

Environmental Research, NonHuman Rights

Kinship as a Metaphor for Earth System Law and Governance

October 20, 2024 Dr. Rosalind Warner

The presentation explores the role of metaphors in international environmental law, focusing on kinship metaphors. The work argues that, in contrast to prevailing legal metaphors like property, public trust, and personhood, the use of kinship metaphors promotes notions of community, shared responsibility, subjectivity of nature, and intergenerational ethics.

By situating kinship within the context of legal pluralism and addressing the gaps and shortcomings of prevailing metaphors…

…using kinship metaphors ultimately helps to re-align legal principles with the urgent needs of the current planetary crisis.

Disasters, Global Health Security, Sustainable Development, World Politics

Ethical Governance of Global Health Security in an Age of Polycrisis

October 20, 2024 Dr. Rosalind Warner

Dr. W. Andy Knight and Dr. Rosalind Warner

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed critical gaps in the effort to improve global health security and highlighted the need for ethical frameworks to guide preparedness and response efforts. This study examines the ethical challenges in governing global health security amidst intersecting crises. The objective is to identify and analyze key ethical dilemmas and propose principles for equitable, accountable, and effective global health security governance.

Poster prepared for Canadian Association for Global Health Conference October 23-25, 2024

Vancouver, BC Canada

Ethical Governance of Global Health Security in an Age of Polycrisis Dr. W. Andy Knight and Dr. Rosalind Warner (1)Download

Selected References

Equity and Fairness

Balabanova, D., McKee, M., Mills, A., Walt, G., & Haines, A. (2010). What can global health institutions do to help strengthen health systems in low income countries. Health Policy Research and Systems, 8, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-8-22

Connolly, K. (n.d.). Freedom and Fairness: Covid Vaccine Passport Plans Cause Global Unease. The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/07/freedom-and-fairness-covid-vaccine-passport-plans-cause-global-unease.

Deivanayagam, T. A., English, S., Hickel, J., Bonifacio, J., Guinto, R. R., Hill, K. X., Huq, M., Issa, R., Mulindwa, H., Nagginda, H. P., de Morais Sato, P., Selvarajah, S., Sharma, C., & Devakumar, D. (2023). Envisioning environmental equity: Climate change, health, and racial justice. The Lancet, 402(10395), 64–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00919-4

Dewan, A. (n.d.). A Fight between the EU and UK Reveals the Ugly Truth about Vaccine Nationalism. CNN. Cable News Network. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/30/europe/uk-eu-astrazeneca-vaccine-nationalism-gbr-intl/index.html.

Elbe, S. (2010). A Global Pharmacy for the poor? Endemics and Other Human Insecurities. In Security and Global Health (p. 220). Polity Press.

Loh, M. (n.d.). Who Chief: It’s ‘Seriously Disappointing’ That Rich Countries Are Ordering Booster Shots While Other Nations Need Vaccines. Insider. Insider. https://www.insider.com/who-admonishes-rich-countries-buying-booster-shots-others-need-vaccines-2021-7.

O’Neill Institute For National & Global Health Law Georgetown Law & Center for Transformational Health Law. (2022, April). Equitable Access Review of CEPI’s COVID-19 Vaccine Development Agreements. https://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/publications/equitable-access-review-of-cepis-covid-19-vaccine-development-agreements/

Smith, R., Beaglehole, R., Woodward, D., Drager, N., & Smith, R. (2003). Global public goods for health: Health economic and public health perspectives. Oxford University Press.

Van De Pas, R., Widdowson, M. A., Ravinetto, R., N Srinivas, P., Ochoa, T. J., Fofana, T. O., & Van Damme, W. (2022). COVID-19 vaccine equity: A health systems and policy perspective. Expert Review of Vaccines, 21(1), 25–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/14760584.2022.2004125

Beneficence and Non-Maleficence

McDougall, L. (2016). Discourse, ideas and power in global health policy networks: Political attention for maternal and child health in the millennium development goal era. Globalization and Health, 12(1), 309. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-016-0157-9

Pike, J., Bogich, T., Elwood, S., Finnoff, D. C., & Daszak, P. (2014). Economic optimization of a global strategy to address the pandemic threat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(52), 18519–18523. https://doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.1412661112

Autonomy and Privacy

Dror, A. A., Eisenbach, N., Taiber, S., Morozov, N. G., Mizrachi, M., Zigron, A., Srouji, S., & Sela, E. (2020). Vaccine hesitancy: The next challenge in the fight against COVID-19. European Journal of Epidemiology, 35(8), 775–779. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10654-020-00671-Y/FIGURES/3

Packard, R. M. (2016). A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other People.

Sallam, M. (2021). Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy worldwide: A concise systematic review of vaccine acceptance rates. Vaccines, 9(2), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.3390/VACCINES9020160

Salmon, D. A., Haber, M., Gangarosa, E. J., Phillips, L., Smith, N. J., & Chen, R. T. (1999). Health consequences of religious and philosophical exemptions from immunization laws: Individual and societal risk of measles. Journal of the American Medical Association, 282(1), 47–53. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.282.1.47

Turnbull, S. (n.d.). Here’s What Canada’s Privacy Commissioners Say Must Be Considered for Vaccine Passports. Coronavirus. CTV News. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/here-s-what-canada-s-privacy-commissioners-say-must-be-considered-for-vaccine-passports-1.5434967?fbclid=IwAR1Qu_olw-hmvgTkxJpDJCIYhCQ2mwKUKoEb1b3BchNJrjX7LU6YFAYdk7A.

Global Solidarity

Acharya, A. (n.d.). A ‘Third Way’ for World Order after Covid-19: Think Global Health. Council on Foreign Relations. https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/third-way-world-order-after-covid-19.

Duff, J. H., Liu, A., Saavedra, J., Batycki, J., Morancy, K., Stocking, B., O Gostin, L., Galea, S., Bertozzi, S., Zuniga, J. M., Alberto-Banatin, C., Dansua, A. S., del Rio, C., Kulzhanov, M., Lee, K., Scaglia, G., Shahpar, C., Ullmann, A. J., Hoffman, S. J., … Szapocznik, J. (2021). A global public health convention for the 21st century. Lancet Public Health, 6(6), 428–433.

Eaton, L., & Humphreys, G. (2020). The need for a coordinated international pandemic response. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 98(6), 378–379. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.020620

Gostin, L. O., & Friedman, E. A. (2014). Ebola: A crisis in global health leadership. The Lancet, 384(9951), 1323. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(14)61791-8

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Heymann, D. (2006). SARS and emerging infectious diseases: A challenge to place global solidarity above national sovereignty. Annals Academy Of Medicine Singapore, 35(5), 350.

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Individual vs Collective Rights

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Proactive vs Reactive

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Proportionality and Necessity

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Selected References

Equity and Fairness

Beneficence and Non-Maleficence

Autonomy and Privacy

Global Solidarity

Individual vs Collective Rights

Proactive vs Reactive

Proportionality and Necessity

Transparency and Accountability

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