The role of UNASUR in the implementation of international health regulations (2005)

• Grant number: 14/25262-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: February 16, 2015
• End date: July 16, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura
• Grantee: Barbara Frossard Pagotto
• Supervisor: Olivier Dabène
• Host Institution: Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/00805-1 - PUBLIC HEALTH AS AN ISSUE OF INTERNACIONAL SECURITY: THE CASE OF NEGOTIATING THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH RELGULATIONS (IHR 2005), BP.MS

Abstract

The new International Health Regulations (RSI), adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005, after ten years of negotiations, has played an important role in the field of sanitary cooperation in South America. The union of South American nations (UNASUR), established in 2008, created in the same year its South American Council of Health and in 2009 the South American Institute of Government in Health, which have shought to help member States to comply with the obligations established by the RSI. The project intends to analyse the relevance of the RSI in the configuration of a regional agenda of sanitary cooperation, as well as analyse how the regional mechanisms of health has improved the implementation of the RSI in the South American countries. (AU)