Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? 1st Edition

The "world of Global Health" is a world where there are more acronyms than cures these days. We face a world with extreme threat of pandemic diseases like drug-resistant TB or staph, and life expectancy in the U.S. is on the decline, which should surprise no one. But according to this book by Chelsea Clinton, the world just needs more "Public-Private Partnership" (PPP) schemes as promoted by the Clinton Foundation to eliminate diseases like HIV and improve infant mortality rates. When you kill off one set of people who provide your income, I guess you need new ones from another set to take their place, right?

As a writer, I believe no one should review any book they haven't read, and unless they got it from the library or a friend/family member, it should be a book they bought and paid for. So I purchased this book. Similarly to the recent book Stronger Together, by the co-author's mother and VP Candidate Tim Kaine, I read as much as I could of it and skimmed the rest.

This book is a very different matter to the obviously committee-written Stronger Together. This is a real book published by one of the most prestigious academic presses in the world. Yet, like the Nobel Prize in so many fields such economics (Paul Krugman) and peace (Barack Obama) and various prestigious branded publications or pollsters like Nate Cohn, Oxford UP is now a damaged brand.

I reached the 9th page of the introduction before realizing: this one seems as poorly-executed and thought out as "Stronger Together" -- how could this be possible? It's sentence after sentence with this structure: "We did xxx, YET yyy problem we need your money for is ..." First off, who is "We?" It sure as heck isn't Chelsea Clinton and her co-author Devi Sridhar. I'm guessing "we" means "Group of Global Elites who Prey on Poor Nations and non-privileged EU and US citizens". In Global Health acronym terms, that would be GGEPPN. I'll change that to GAGPEN for ease of memorization. Acronyms can be so funny! Did you know that the Haitian Earthquake Recovery Committee was ordered by the co-author's father to change its acronym from CHER to "HRC"? I wonder why ...

Second, I've written more than 20 nonfiction books for K-12 classrooms and libraries. The organization, analysis and writing both within this book's chapters and in choice of primary topics seems less-sophisticated than any of those, and I am including Tony Hawk: Business Mogul. The first chapter cites major public health problems like Ebola and Zika, but it's hard to follow the information and it simply gives the most basic "top of the web page fold" quotes from official sources. An average reader might think it's just a big chapter written to use acronyms like HSPH and LSHTM. We know HIV/AIDS but what about NCDs? Some people call those "Diseases of Society."

I can't take it any more. I really tried. I reached chapter three and skimmed the rest. The PPP stuff is all about the Clinton Foundation schemes with foreign drug manufacturers. If you know of a school forced to buy Epipens or Narcan emergency doses at high prices - these are these great "Public-Private Partnerships" and no, it doesn't tell you, the private individual, how you can cash in on poor kids with AIDS, Zika or Ebola. That's a specialty of the acronym people and especially the Clintons. If you're an average person, the book is just a bunch of gobbledygook, and if you're in the actual field of international health or just-plain health in your local community, my guess is it'll seem very out of touch and off-point.

To use the many acronyms in the book, with one found pretty much in every sentence, ODA pain of trying to read this book. NGO way could the average person get much out of this UN interesting, UN inspired volume. I wonder WHO could possibly finish it?

I'm guessing Dr. Clinton (She has a Ph.D. in international relations) needs to innovate a new employment category. You've heard of ghostwriters? She could really break ground and hire some ghostreaders.

As superficial and boring as its author, who has received a free ride her entire life.

I gave this away as a gift to someone that I never want to see or talk to again (Stage 5 Clinger), but I didn't want to tell them upfront and seem rude on Valentines day, so I picked up a copy of this at my local bookstore and had them wrap it up with really nice paper.

The expression on their face of disappointment when they unwrapped the gift probably ensures they'll never bother me again. They used to text me several times a day, now? Nothing! Perfect!

10/10 would recommend.

The book profiles global health organizations. Boring to the nth.

Chelsea once again proves she is out of her depth with this piece of NWO propaganda. Stick to the children's books, you're better at that.

Received it as a gift because I love all things that deal with health, contagion, epidemics, etc., and how it is dealt with at a government level. Well this book is hard to follow, is boring as hell and actually it seems more like a political ranting . It went out with the recycling trash. Sorry guys. If I could have I would have given it zero stars.

This book contains nothing I haven't already read about years ago. Another one for the summer yard sale :(

This book explains nothing really, not sure what the real point of it was. Highly disappointed.