Reda Sadki

Civil Society Organizations

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  • Global health architecture: what are we missing?

    The 79th World Health Assembly launched a formal process to reform the architecture that governs global health. The design of that process — who sits in the room, what questions it is permitted to ask, whose knowledge it is built to receive — will determine whether reform produces structural change or a more sophisticated version…

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    Reda Sadki
    A ruined World Health Organization assembly hall reclaimed by jungle vegetation, with the UN emblem on a cracked wall and broken benches overrun by moss and ferns.

  • Do Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) actually help global health?

    This summary analyzes two important articles examining the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in global health: “Civil society organisations and global health initiatives: Problems of legitimacy” by Doyle and Patel (2008), and “Civil society in global health policymaking: a critical review” by Gómez (2018). While both articles challenge dominant assumptions about CSOs in global…

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    Reda Sadki
    Civil society organisations and global health initiatives Problems of legitimacy