Summer Marion

Bentley University · Global Studies

Public cooperation with health experts and authorities plays a critical role in curbing the spread of disease during outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Through data collected using mixed methods in May and June of 2020, we investigate the influence of information from horizontal and vertical ties on the likelihood that individuals would pract...

This paper argues different policy issue framings of climate change—ranging from security to energy, economics, humanitarian response, and health frames—play critical roles in altering policy outcomes. Specifically, we focus on the several windows of opportunity that altered the pathway of the US climate change debates from 1985 to 2017. Progressin...

Why do some international agreements fail to achieve their goals? Rather than states’ engaging in cheap talk, evasion, or shallow commitments, the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR)—the agreement governing states’ and WHO's response to global health emergencies—point to the unintended consequences of informatio...

Background The near universal adoption of cross-border health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide has prompted significant debate about their effectiveness and compliance with international law. The number of measures used, and the range of measures applied, have far exceeded previous public health emergencies of international concern....

Isolationist behavior by powerful states has been accompanied by a rise in private philanthropic engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Private philanthropy constitutes twenty percent of development assistance for health, yet remains underexplored as an actor in international relations (IR). Over the past two decades, private foundations gained v...

Under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR [2005]), member states agreed to follow WHO guidance with respect to outbreak-related travel and trade measures and, specifically, to refrain from imposing “additional health measures” that significantly interfere with international traffic and trade without ju...

Objective To review the effectiveness of travel measures implemented during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic to inform changes on how evidence is incorporated in the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). Design We used an abbreviated Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols to identify studies t...

Background The near universal adoption of cross-border health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide has prompted significant debate about their effectiveness and compliance with international law. The number of measures used, and the range of measures applied, have far exceeded previous public health emergencies of international concern....

Objective To review evidence of the effectiveness of travel measures implemented during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to recommend change on how evidence is incorporated in the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). Design We used an abbreviated preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis protoco...

While health and climate science recognize a clear linkage between infectious diseases and effects of climate change, outbreaks and disasters are frequently framed as standalone crises in public discourse. Drawing on public policy image framing literature, this paper examines effects of crossover in climate change and infectious disease discourse o...