Key Players in Global Health: How Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa Are Influencing the Game

This report represents the first step in an 18-month CSIS initiative focused on how the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries and South Africa are influencing activities, practices, and strategies in the area of global health diplomacy. Over the next year and a half the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, along with the CSIS programs on China, Russia, South Asia, Africa, and the Americas, will develop partnerships with institutions in each country to support shared research projects, to organize international discussions, and to disseminate policy analysis and recommendations intended to encourage greater understanding of the ways in which approaches to global health policy and cooperation are changing.The contributions to this volume examine the history of each country's engagement in the global health area; the philosophy that motivates each nation's global health outreach and cooperation; the relationship between each country's domestic health conditions and its international work; the legislation and bureaucracies that support governments' work on global health; the most relevant international organization, multilateral, and bilateral partners; and the implications for the United States and other countries.

Katherine E. Bliss is deputy director and senior fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center and senior fellow with the CSIS Americas Program.