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，对国际烟草控制和全球健康中的知识政治和治理进行研究。2005年初，世界卫生组织签署了世界上第一个以烟草控制框架公约(烟草控制框架公约)的形式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，可以通过它在全球范围内审查新出现的跨国治理形式以及公共卫生科学和政策的共同成果。在NSF科学、技术和社会计划的支持下，本论文的研究将解决以下研究问题：1)与烟草有关的各种问题如何被视为具有全球意义的问题？2)具有法律约束力的、与健康有关的条约形式的国际监管如何成为解决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“全球健康”这一新兴领域？本论文以一系列的文本来源、参与者观察和对关键行为者的访谈数据为基础，运用解释性分析方法，将《烟草控制框架公约》作为全球科学知识治理的个案研究。这项研究将对科学、社会和国家之间的关系的跨学科研究作出重要贡献，强调《烟草控制框架公约》发展的全球和后殖民背景以及更广泛的全球卫生。这项研究的结果将对科学研究、社会史、医学和公共政策的学者以及治理、后殖民主义和全球化的社会研究的学者感兴趣。此外，这项研究将鼓励关键社会科学和迅速发展的全球卫生领域之间的合作。

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.