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Health and Social Governance

Health and Social Governance Program

Health and Social Governance

The Health and Social Governance program seeks to develop innovative policy options that address global health and other social issues and that transcend borders and disciplines. Through a number of targeted initiatives, researchers are studying how governments and institutions can collaborate on finding substantive and lasting responses to complex challenges such as climate-induced pandemics, the brain drain of health practitioners from developing regions, and the role of the private sector in post-conflict reconstruction.

The challenges raised by these broad issue-areas call forth a need for different types of international and multilateral initiatives that engage nations in working together on areas of mutual concern. Anchored in this theme are five main projects that adopt an interdisciplinary and international approach: Islamic World Initiative, Minorities in the Middle East, Global Health Governance, Private Sector and Less Developed Countries, and the African Initiative.

Projects

African Initiative
The African Initiative is a unique, crosscutting collaboration of three institutions: a think tank, a nongovernmental organization, and a university. Work on the core areas of the initiative develops policy recommendations and best practice guidelines to offer foresight in dealing with the unpredictable effects of climate change for countries across the continent, from Senegal to Somalia and Tunisia to South Africa.
Global Health Governance
This project is an ongoing CIGI initiative that tackles global health governance challenges. Research in this area examines how the current global health governance system is adapting and responding to new types of threats that are proving larger in scope and in scale than in the past.
Islamic World Initiative
The Islamic World Initiative is initiating a dialogue among scholars of Islam, education specialists, and experts on governance and public policy. With the participation of leading intellectuals and policymakers the project is designed to promote intellectual engagement and civic commitments. In doing so, it seeks to examine far-reaching and complex set of topics that are of particularly critical importance to today’s Muslim societies.
Minorities in the Middle East
CIGI’s Minorities in the Middle East project begins by looking into the historical account and background on the minorities in question in order to examine and generate discussion on what led to the increased extremism and fundamentalism currently in place in the region.
Private Sector and Less Developed Countries
CIGI’s work in this area examines government interventions in less developed countries and their effectiveness in improving the business investment climate while lifting legal and bureaucratic constraints that previously hindered local and foreign direct investment (FDI).