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Abstract: This article presents an overview of the Winter 2007 symposium issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics which examines pressing problems in global health through the lenses of international health law, ethics, and policy. This article considers critical questions for future research and policy and draws attention to the disproportionate burdens of disease and early death among the world’s poorest people. This article also discusses why health is a global problem that cannot be adequately addressed solely at the national level, the extensive governance problems that have plagued health policy nationally and internationally, and various approaches proposed by scholars who see current governance as weak and ineffectual.
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