ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the growing literature on responses provided to re-emerging infectious diseases under the global health framework. The globalization of risks, transcending national borders and national regulation bodies, has been emphasized by a range of bodies, such as the OECD with its report on “emerging systemic risks” or the World Economic Forum yearly report on “global risks”. Responses prompted by the global health framework took place in local environments, characterized by specific social, cultural, political and geographical contexts. Global health developed as an interdisciplinary field of expertise, calling for the integration of a range of disciplines providing what are considered relevant insights about health issues. Social sciences are typically called in when public health is confronted with “cultural problems” that cannot be solved by technical solutions. The original project started on the assumption that organizing, communicating and costing, three major pillars of global health responses, were too often addressed separately.
