George W Brown

Biographic Data

ID183116
NAMEGeorge W Brown
GIVEN NAMESGeorge W
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN G W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leeds
ORCID0000-0002-6557-5353
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS155
TOTAL CITATIONS402
AUTHOR COUNT155
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1919
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX12

  • Incorporating Quality of Life Into Care for People Living With HIV

    Open AccessAleksandra Olekalns, Catherine Mai et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2026

    Background Achieving quality of life (QoL) outcomes for people living with HIV (PLHIV) is reliant on a mix of clinical and community service initiatives. A brief, agreed‐upon set of Patient‐Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) may enhance shared care, strengthen service partnerships, and improve QoL monitoring and other relevant outcomes. Currently, there is no consensus on PROMs across HIV clinical, community and research settings. This study aimed…

  • WHO’s pandemic response recommendations after Covid-19

    Open AccessJean von Agris, David Bell et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Objectives: This article examines how the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations and guidelines on public health and social measures (PHSM) have changed since COVID-19. Doing so allows insights on what lessons WHO has learned from the COVID-19 response. Methods: The article analyses six recent WHO publications detailing recommendations on PHSM and compares them against three pre-COVID-19 WHO documents. The analysis also assesses the ev…

  • It is time to increase Africa’s governmental representation on the governing board of the global fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria

    Open AccessReginald Maudlin Nalugala, Reginald Nalugala et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX There is increasing attention in global health governance to increase African representation within decision-making bodies

  • The devil’s in the detail

    Open AccessBlagovesta Tacheva, George W Brown et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2025

    This is the first published study examining whether, and to what degree, innovative financing could effectively support the financing needs of the global pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) agenda. Background: What is already known? In the context of global health, innovative financing encompasses a range of financial instruments that supplement international development assistance and other traditional sources of financing, wit…

  • Should Eminence Outweigh Evidence? The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board's Report on Pandemic Preparedness

    Open AccessDavid Bell, George W Brown et al.ARTICLEGlobal Policy2025

    The Global Pandemic Monitoring Board (GPMB) is a group of eminent individuals publishing reports calling for increased emphasis on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR). They advocate for the World Health Organization's (WHO) PPPR preferred approach and its attendant financial requests. Though claiming independence, GPMB is co‐convened by WHO and the World Bank. The GPMB report of January 2025 displays a selective approach in whi…

  • Urgent pandemic messaging of WHO , World Bank, and G20 is inconsistent with their evidence base

    Open AccessDavid Bell, George W Brown et al.ARTICLEGlobal Policy2024

    When international agencies make claims of an “existential threat” to humanity and advocate for urgent action from countries, it should be a safe assumption that they are consistent with their own data. However, a review of the data and evidentiary citations underlying the claims of the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and the Group of Twenty (G20) reveals a troubling picture in which the stated urgency and burden of infectious di…

  • Preparing for pandemics needs a dose of public health and a booster of “complex thought” (Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum)

    Open AccessElisabeth Paul, George W Brown et al.ARTICLEGlobal Policy2024

    The COVID‐19 pandemic has triggered unprecedented governmental responses worldwide, revealing weaknesses in health systems and public health policies due to lack of “complex thought” required to manage complex adaptive systems. Understanding COVID‐19 response strategies' multiple effects is particularly important now that pandemic preparedness and response (PPR) is on top of the global health political agenda. Here, we adopt a complex adaptive sy…

  • Royal Society report

    Open AccessElisabeth Paul, George W Brown et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2024

    A recent report by the Royal Society examined the literature on the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) aimed at reducing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic. It emphatically concluded that they were 'effective', which we argue may be misleading to policymakers. This paper performs a critical analysis of the Royal Society report and explains what a proper evaluation of NPIs would mean, arguing that the…

  • The Responsibility for Peace (R4P)

    Open AccessBlagovesta Tacheva, George W Brown et al.ARTICLERivista Italiana di Filosofia…2024

    This article introduces a new conceptualisation of the relationship between global distributive justice, development, and the study of peace, which we label the Responsibility for Peace (R4P). In doing so, the article examines the notion of positive peace within peace studies, its relation to arguments within global distributive justice, and to what degree this important relationship is recognised in the primary international framework to prevent…

  • Challenges in international health financing and implications for the new pandemic fund

    Open AccessGeorge W Brown, Natalie Rhodes et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2023

    BACKGROUND: The failures of the international COVID-19 response highlighted key gaps in pandemic preparedness and response (PPR). The G20 and WHO have called for additional funding of $10.5 billion per year to adequately strengthen the global PPR architecture. In response to these calls, in 2022 the World Bank announced the launch of a new Financial Intermediary Fund (The Pandemic Fund) to catalyse this additional funding. However, there is consi…

  • The role of health systems for health security

    Open AccessGeorge W Brown, Gemma Bridge et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2022

  • Who is paid in pay-for-performance? Inequalities in the distribution of financial bonuses amongst health centres in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessRoxanne Kovacs, George W Brown et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2022

    Although pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes have been implemented across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), little is known about their distributional consequences. A key concern is that financial bonuses are primarily captured by providers who are already better able to perform (for example, those in wealthier areas), P4P could exacerbate existing inequalities within the health system. We examine inequalities in the distribution of pay-out…

  • Self-interest, transitional cosmopolitanism and the motivational problem

    Open AccessGeorge W Brown, Jacqueline HobbsARTICLEJournal of International…2022References: 14

    It is often argued that cosmopolitanism faces unique motivational constraints, asking more of individuals than they are able to give. This ‘motivational problem’ is held to pose a significant challenge to cosmopolitanism, as it appears unable to transform its moral demands into motivated political action. This article develops a novel response to the motivational problem facing cosmopolitanism, arguing that self-interest, alongside appeals to sen…

  • A realist review to assess for whom, under what conditions and how pay for performance programmes work in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessNeha Singh, Roxanne Kovacs et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021

    Pay for performance (P4P) programmes are popular health system-focused interventions aiming to improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). This realist review aims to understand how, why and under what circumstance P4P works in LMICs.We systematically searched peer-reviewed and grey literature databases, and examined the mechanisms underpinning P4P effects on: utilisation of services, patient satisfaction, provider product…

  • Can Results-Based Financing improve health outcomes in resource poor settings? Evidence from Zimbabwe

    Open AccessEleonora Fichera, Laura Anselmi et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Cited by: 3References: 23

    Result Based Financing (RBF) has been implemented in health systems across low and middle-income countries (LMICs), with the objective of improving population health. Most evaluations of RBF schemes have focused on average programme effects for incentivised services. There is limited evidence on the potential effect of RBF on health outcomes, as well as on the heterogeneous effects across socio-economic groups and time periods. This study analyse…

  • Covid-19

    Open AccessElisabeth Paul, George W Brown et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    International audience

  • We shouldn’t count chickens before they hatch

    Open AccessElisabeth Paul, George W Brown et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2020

    Results-based financing (RBF) is subject to fierce debate and the evidence-base on its cost effectiveness is scarce. To our knowledge, only one cost-effectiveness study of RBF in a lower-middle income country has been published in a peer reviewed journal. That study – in Zambia – concludes that RBF is cost-effective, which was then uncritically repeated in an editorial accompanying its release. Here we would like to warn against readily accepting…

  • The European Convention of Human Rights as a Kantian cosmopolitan legal order

    Open AccessGeorge W Brown, Mads AndenasARTICLEGlobal Constitutionalism2020References: 4

    In A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Kant, Constitutional Justice and the European Convention on Human Rights , Alec Stone Sweet and Clare Ryan argue that there has been the emergence of, and increasing prospects for, a cosmopolitan legal order based on the Convention. This symposium aims to engage with, and to better explore, the theoretical implications and practical legal ramifications of their argument. In doing so, this first article acts as a gen…

  • R2P and Prevention

    Open AccessAlexandra Böhm, George W BrownARTICLEGlobal Responsibility to Protect2020Cited by: 3References: 11

    There has been increased focus on atrocity prevention and the preventative elements associated with Pillar ii of the Responsibility to Protect. Policymakers and academics have offered a range of short-term preventative measures available so that the international community can better fulfil its Pillar ii responsibilities. This article challenges this current R2P thinking by arguing that its short-termism insufficiently focuses on de-escalation of…

  • Kant's Cosmopolitics

    George W Brown, Garrett Wallace Brown et al.BOOKKant's Cosmopolitics2019

    Advances Kant’s cosmopolitan ideas for global co-habitability and a universal condition of public right Written by a group of international scholars, the essays in this collection apply Kantian political theory to state and global governance, peace and human rights enforcement, migrant crisis management, European federalisation, global educational reforms and fostering what some might call a 'cosmopolitan culture'. As a result, this book advances…

  • Contestation and constitution of norms in global international relations

    Open AccessGeorge W Brown, Garrett Wallace Brown et al.ARTICLEInternational Affairs2019Cited by: 5

    Much scholarship in International Relations has sought to go beyond traditional state-centric conceptions and widen discourse to include more pluralist and interdisciplinary scholarship, which seeks to take account of a broader range of actors at all levels of global society. At the same time, and relatedly, contemporary constructivist scholarship has focused on the importance of shared ideas and norms as a means to understand the practice of act…

  • Introducing Jus ante Bellum as a cosmopolitan approach to humanitarian intervention

    Open AccessGeorge W Brown, Garrett Wallace Brown et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of International…2016Cited by: 2References: 42

    Cosmopolitans often argue that the international community has a humanitarian responsibility to intervene militarily in order to protect vulnerable individuals from violent threats and to pursue the establishment of a condition of cosmopolitan justice based on the notion of a ‘global rule of law’. The purpose of this article is to argue that many of these cosmopolitan claims are incomplete and untenable on cosmopolitan grounds because they ignore…

  • Understanding global health and development partnerships

    Open AccessAmy Barnes, George W Brown et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Cited by: 5References: 19

  • Global constitutionalism and the responsibility to protect

    Open AccessBlagovesta Tacheva, George W BrownARTICLEGlobal Constitutionalism2015References: 28

    There is recent scholarship suggesting that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has now emerged as a master concept in relation to responding to mass atrocity crimes and that the R2P can further be seen as representative of an emerging global constitutional norm. In critical response, this article provides the first attempt to systematically investigate R2P’s relationship with global constitutionalisation as well as to explore its wider implicati…

  • The Responsibility to Protect 10 years on from the World Summit

    Open AccessAdrian Gallagher, George W BrownARTICLEInternational Politics2015Cited by: 3References: 6