Health Policy and Politics Virtual Poster Session

• In Event: Qualitative Methods & Sexuality and Politics & Health Politics and Health Policy Virtual Poster Session

Session Submission Type: Virtual Poster Session

Session Description

The posters in this session examine health politics and health policy within and across several nations, including but not limited to the United States, Turkey, and Chile.

Gian Franco Bermudez and Jennifer Prah Ruger analyze nearly 75,000 tweets from 2016-2020 to uncover the policy preferences of 20 public and private actors in global health governance. They find that wealthy funding organizations “drive global health governance and dictate global health priorities,” with the resulting emphasis being on “specific disease control programs in particular countries rather than strengthening health systems, institutions and infrastructure for health equity.”

Yasushi Hazama studies the relative influence of formal and informal social capital in Turkey on pro-social behavior--specifically behaviors aimed at preventing the spread of infections like COVID-19.

Claudio A. Méndez studies why Chile--a country with a strong commitment to universal health coverage--would see demands for better access to healthcare. This paper examines the role of interests, institutions, ideas, and ideology in answering this question.

Anthony Dell'Aera examines how Operation Warp Speed has impacted the pharmaceutical regulatory state.

Sub Unit

• Division 48: Health Politics & Health Policy

Individual Presentations

• Big Data Reveals Preferences and Power Asymmetries in Global Health Governance - Gian Franco Bermudez, University of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Prah Ruger, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

• Informal Social Capital and Infection Prevention Behavior - Yasushi Hazama, Institute of Developing Economies

• When Universal Health Coverage Is Not Enough: What Can We Learn from Chile? - Claudio A. Méndez, Universidad Austral de Chile

• Unintended Pharmaceutical Regulatory State Implications of Operation Warp Speed - Anthony D. Dell'Aera, Worcester State University

Chair

• Herschel Nachlis Dartmouth College

Discussant

• Gregory Schober University of Texas at El Paso