European Joint Doctorate

Globalisation, Europe & Multilateralism - Sophistication of the Transnational Order, Networks, and European Strategies

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Salient Issues on the Global Health Agenda: How Science/Policy Boundary-Work Builds Confidence in Global Governance

Sameea Ahmed-Hassim

Supervisors: Raffaele Marchetti (LUISS Guido Carli) & Jean Frédéric Morin (ULB)

Abstract

This study examines the science/policy interactions in global health science and technology governance. It focuses on the institutional design of organizations that sit at the interface of science and policy, conceptualizing them as Boundary Organizations (BOs). The analysis considers how the institutional design of BOs affect boundary-work. The study examines two case studies, UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee and the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization. The study examines the ways in which boundary-work is carried out and finds that the concept of a BO demonstrates an institutionalization of science/policy interactions and the analysis of these two cases show that there are different ways that boundary-work is practiced as a function of the design of BOs.

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This project receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No 722826.