Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World

Introduction.- PART I: A FRAMEWORK FOR ENHANCING LEVERAGE IN NEGOTIATIONS.- 1: Issue Framing: Making Your Concerns a Global Priority.- 2: Managing the Negotiation Process.- 3: Coalition-Building and Process Strategies.- 4: Meeting Implementation Challenges.- 5: Building Institutional Capacity for Effective Negotiation.- PART II: CASE STUDIES.- 6: Case I - Analyzing a Complex Multilateral Negotiation: The TRIPS Public Health Declaration.- 7: Case II - Negotiating Access to HIV/AIDS Medicines: A Study of the Strategies Adopted by Brazil.- 8: Case III - Keeping Your Head Above Water in Climate Change Negotiations: Lessons from Island Nations.

David Fairman is Managing Director at the Consensus Building Institute, Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and Lecturer in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. David is Senior Mediator on the rosters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. He is also a founding board member of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, founding Director of CBI's Workable Peace program, member of the Advisory Board for the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution, and life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT and a B.A. from Harvard College.

Diana Chigas joined CDA in 2003 as Co-Director of the Reflecting on Peace Practice Project (RPP). She is also Professor of the practice of negotiation and conflict resolution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she teaches courses on negotiation and development and conflict resolution. Prior to joining CDA, Diana worked at the non-governmental organization Conflict Management Group.  She has a JD from Harvard Law School, an MALD from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and a B.A. from Yale University.

Elizabeth McClintock is a Founder and Managing Partner of CMPartners and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Bridgeway Group. Elizabeth is currently a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She holds an MALD from the Fletcher School and an AB from Dartmouth College.

Nick Drager is former Director of the Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights and Senior Adviser in the Strategy Unit, Office of the Director-General at the World Health Organization is Honorary Professor, Global Health Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Professor of Public Policy and Global Health Diplomacy, McGill University; Adjunct Research Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa: Visiting Professor The