Stephanie Smith, Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech University
This talk will discuss the first national-level applications of an arenas model for global health agenda setting. The global health agenda setting odds are stacked against noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Despite their high burden, NCDs lack the power of infectious disease threats and vulnerable groups (pregnant women and young children) to galvanize government and international resource commitments. These comparative case studies offer new insights to differences in emerging priority for NCDs among agenda setting actors in Malawi and Zimbabwe, suggesting ways an arenas model may be used to advance health policy analysis and measurement.
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