03 - We need to talk about the World Health Organisation!, with Anna Holzscheiter | Research Feature: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

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Cooperadio - The Global Cooperation Podcast

Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research

13 episodes

3 days ago

Cooperadio invites you on a journey through the fascinating world of global cooperation research. Each episode features voices, opinions and research that address the multitude of global challenges that we are dealing with as inhabitants of a deeply globalized world - from the climate emergency, the challenges of global migration, the multitude of old and new conflicts, all the way to the digital revolution. All these transboundary problems have one thing in common: They cannot be overcome by singular actors from nations states alone and therefore call for global cooperation!

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03 - We need to talk about the World Health Organisation!, with Anna Holzscheiter | Research Feature: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

Cooperadio - The Global Cooperation Podcast

46 minutes 2 seconds

4 years ago

03 - We need to talk about the World Health Organisation!, with Anna Holzscheiter | Research Feature: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

With the spread of the SARS-CoV2 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) quickly found itself caught between calls to resolve the crisis and accusations of having delayed an efficient pandemic response in the interest of certain member states. While expectations were high for the WHO to deliver on its mandate as guardian of global health, countries with self-interested agendas undermined the WHO‘s role by providing insufficient funding and engaging in forum shopping.

How can the WHO rise to the enormous challenge of promoting good health and well-being globally in spite of these impediments? What role do other actors of the global health architecture play, and how do they interact with the WHO? And what impact do private-public-initiatives or other less formal institutions like the G20 have on the future of global health governance?

We had the chance to discuss these and other questions with Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter, Chair of Political Science with a focus on international politics at TU Dresden and the head of the research group 'Governance for Global Health' at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

In our ‘Research Feature’, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn introduces his state-of-the-art work on the usefulness of blockchain technology for climate finance and for improving the input and output legitimacy of climate governance. He tries to map the possibilities and limits of techno-centric climate governance by asking: Can new emerging blockchain experiments actually enable outputs that reduce greenhouse gas emission? Follow this link to find his latest paper!

For additional information on the episode, visit our website. We look forward to your feedback or questions on Twitter: @GCR_21 ! Use the hashtag #cooperadiopodcast Or send us an e-mail: cooperadio@gcr21.uni-due.de.

Our guests of this episode are also on Twitter: @AHolzscheiter and @MalcolmCV

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction,

03:45 - Interview with Anna Holzscheiter,

35:18 - Research Feature