Power and Distribution in Global Health Governance - On the Failure of COVAX and the limits of market-based mechanisms

Power and Distribution in Global Health Governance - On the Failure of COVAX and the limits of market-based mechanisms von Achenbach, Jelena Author aut Text xx# 2024 Verfassungsblog 2024-03-28 eng Since at least the 1980s, private actors and market-based mechanisms have played an increasingly important role in the provision of public goods and services and the pursuit of public policy objectives in general. A market approach is also widely used in the field of public health. In effect, the PPP approach, as illustrated by COVAX, can work to structurally protect the interests of (a majority) of the high-income countries. While PPPs in global health may do a lot of good things, their private law, contractualist nature and structures safeguard formal state sovereignty and voluntarism, predominantly benefitting high-income donor countries CC BY-SA 4.0 von Achenbach, Jelena COVAX COVAX Pandemic Treaty Private Ordering WHO COVAX 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/power-and-distribution-in-global-health-governance/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/199427b6a509f759 240328 10.59704/199427b6a509f759 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)