PUBLIC HEALTH AS AN ISSUE OF INTERNACIONAL SECURITY: THE CASE OF NEGOTIATING THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH RELGULATIONS (IHR 2005)

• Grant number: 14/00805-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2014
• End date: September 09, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura
• Grantee: Barbara Frossard Pagotto
• Host Institution: Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/25262-0 - The role of UNASUR in the implementation of international health regulations (2005), BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The new International Health Regulations (IHR) was adopted by the World Health Organization in 2005, after 10 years of negotiations. During the revision process of the IHR, concerns that surpass the public health field, especially issues related to biosecurity and bioterrorism, have contributed to unlock the negotiations. Therefore, the rules settled by the new International Health Regulations represent substantial changes in the field of public health, regarding the control of infectious diseases proliferation, but also include issues of the international security agenda. By this perspective, this research studies the negotiation process of the new IHR, seeking to analyze how the international security agenda permeated the elaboration of the new IHR and influenced its rules, contributing to a wider process of securitizing global public health.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

PAGOTTO, Barbara Frossard. Public health as a subject of international security: the negotiation of the new International Health Regulations (RSI 2005). 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI) São Paulo.