The world's problems are indeed world problems: social and environmental crises, global trade and politics, and major epidemics are making public health a pressing global concern. From this constantly changing scenario, global health diplomacy has evolved, at the intersection of public health, international relations, law, economics, and management-a new discipline with transformative potential.

1. Global Health Diplomacy: An Introduction.- 2. Current Issues in Global Health Diplomacy.- 3. The History and evolution of global health diplomacy.- 4. Global Health Law.- 5. The New Dynamics of Global Health Governance.- 6. The Process and Practice of Negotiation.- 7. Human Rights and Equity: The Value Base of Global Health Diplomacy.- 8. New diplomacy for health: a global public goods perspective.- 9. Diplomacy and Global Health Security.- 10. Global Environmental Diplomacy: Comparing and Sharing.- 11. Global Trade and Health Diplomacy: Maximizing Cooperation and Minimizing Conflict through Coherent International Rules.- 12. The World Health Organization as a key venue for global health diplomacy.- 13. Instruments of global health governance at the World Health Organization.- 14. Instruments for Global Health Diplomacy in the UN System beyond the WHO.- 15. Global Health Diplomacy at the United Nations General Assembly.- 16. The EU as an actor in Global Health Diplomacy.- 17. The G8/G20 and Global Health Governance: extended fragmentation or a new hub of coordination.- 18. Civil Society Organizations, Global Health Governance and Public Diplomacy.- 19. Health is Global: A UK Government Strategy 2008/13.- 20. National Strategies for Global Health.- 21. Power shifts in Global Health Diplomacy and New Models of Development: South-South cooperation.- 22. Reflection: The Copernican Revolution: The changing relationship between foreign policy and health.