Doctoral Dissertation Research: "Governing Global Health: The Politics of Knowledge and Governance in Global Tobacco Treaties"

加州大学圣地亚哥分校科学研究专业博士生凯瑟琳肯尼将在艾萨克·马丁和史蒂文·爱泼斯坦教授的指导下，开展关于国际烟草控制和全球健康知识和治理政治的研究。2005年初，世界卫生组织以《烟草控制框架公约》的形式签署生效了世界上第一个专门针对健康问题的国际条约。因此，《烟草控制框架公约》提供了一个很好的案例，通过它可以审查跨国治理的新形式以及全球范围内公共卫生科学和政策的共同产生。本论文的研究，由美国国家科学基金会的科学，技术和社会计划的支持下，将解决以下研究问题：1）如何与烟草相关的各种问题来被视为一个全球性的意义？2)以具有法律约束力的健康相关条约为形式的国际监管如何成为全球烟草问题的最佳解决方案？3)《烟草控制框架公约》的发展如何促进和塑造了“全球健康”这一新兴领域？本文利用一系列文本来源、参与者观察和对关键参与者访谈的数据，并使用解释性分析方法，将《烟草控制框架公约》作为科学知识全球治理的案例研究。这项研究将为科学、社会和国家之间关系的跨学科研究做出重要贡献，强调FCTC发展的全球和后殖民背景以及更广泛的全球健康。这项研究的结果将感兴趣的科学研究，社会历史，医学和公共政策，以及治理，后殖民主义和全球化的社会研究的学者。此外，这项研究将鼓励关键社会科学与迅速扩散的全球健康领域之间的合作。

Katherine Kenny, doctoral student in Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, under the guidance of Professors Isaac Martin and Steven Epstein, will conduct research on the politics of knowledge and governance in international tobacco control and global health. In early 2005, the World Health Organization signed into force the world's first international treaty directed specifically towards a matter of health in the form of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). As such, the FCTC provides an excellent case through which to examine emergent forms of transnational governance and the co-production of the science and policy of public health on a global scale. This dissertation research, supported by the NSF Program on Science, Technology and Society, will address the following research questions: 1) How have the various problems associated with tobacco come to be seen as an issue of global significance? 2) How has international regulation, in the form of a legally binding, health related treaty, emerged as the best solution to the global tobacco problem? 3) How has the development of the FCTC contributed to and shaped the emerging field of "global health"? Drawing on a range of textual sources, data from participant observation and interviews with key actors, and using interpretive methods of analysis, this dissertation will employ the FCTC as a case study in the global governance of scientific knowledge. This research stands to make an important contribution to interdisciplinary studies of the relationship between science, society and the state by emphasizing the global and postcolonial contexts of the development of the FCTC and global health more generally. The results of this research will be of interest to scholars of science studies, social history, medicine and public policy, and social studies of governance, postcolonialism and globalization. Furthermore, this research will encourage collaboration between the critical social sciences and the rapidly proliferating field of global health.