Simon Rushton

Dr Simon Rushton has written widely on global health with a particular focus on international responses to HIV/AIDS, the links between health and security, the changing architecture of global health governance, and issues surrounding conflict and health. He is a British academic and an Associate Fellow of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House

From 2009-2017 he was co-editor (with Alan Ingram and Maria Kett at UCL) of the quarterly journal Medicine, Conflict and Survival.

Publications

Books

• Simon Rushton and Owain David Williams (eds.) Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Journal articles

• Colin McInnes and Simon Rushton, 'HIV, AIDS and security: where are we now?', International Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 1 (January 2010).
• Simon Rushton, 'AIDS and international security in the United Nations System', Health Policy and Planning, Vol. 25, No. 6 (November 2010).
• Simon Rushton, 'Framing AIDS: Securitization, Development-ization, Rights-ization', Global Health Governance, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Fall 2010).
• Simon Rushton, 'The UN Secretary-General and norm entrepreneurship: Boutros Boutros-Ghali and democracy promotion', Global Governance, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan-March 2008).
• Colin McInnes and Simon Rushton, 'The UK, health and peace-building: the mysterious disappearance of Health as a Bridge for Peace', Medicine, Conflict & Survival, Vol. 22, No. 2 (April–June 2006).
• Colin McInnes, Simon Rushton and Owain David Williams, 'HIV/AIDS: National Security, Human Security', Human Security Bulletin (March 2006)
• Simon Rushton, 'Health and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Resuscitating the Failed State in Sierra Leone', International Relations, Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 2005).

Book chapters

• Owain David Williams and Simon Rushton, 'The end of one era and the start of another: Partnerships, foundations and the shifting political economy of public health', in Rushton and Williams (eds.), Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Owain David Williams and Simon Rushton, 'Private actors in global health governance', in Rushton and Williams (eds.), Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Simon Rushton, 'Global governance capacities in health: WHO and infectious disease', in Kay and Williams (eds.), Global Health Governance: Crisis, Institutions and Political Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• Alan Ingram and Simon Rushton, 'Health and Security', in Global Health Watch 2, London: Zed Books, 2008.
• Simon Rushton, 'A History of Peace through Health' in Neil Arya & Joanna Santa-Barbara (eds.), Peace through Health: How Health Professionals Can Work for a Less Violent World, Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2008.