This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a 'private turn' in global health governance, and provides theoretical and practical grounds for viewing global health partnerships and philanthropic foundations as closely aligned in their ideational and material approaches to a range of important issues and crises.Private Actors in Global Health Governance; O.D.Williams & S.Rushton PART I: GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS A Critical Appraisal of Global Health Partnerships; S.Bartsch The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Expertise, Accountability and the Depoliticisation of Global Health Governance; A.Barnes & G.Wallace Brown The Alignment Dialogue: GAVI and its Engagement with National Governments in Health Systems Strengthening; P.S.Hill Evaluating Product Development Partnerships: Beyond quantitative metrics; R.Hanlin PART II: PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS Private Foundations and Global Health Partnerships: Philanthropists and 'Partnership Brokerage'; M.Moran Global Health and the Gates Foundation In Perspective; D.McCoy & L.McGoey The Clinton Foundation and Global Health Governance; J.Youde Private Foundations as Agents of Development in Global Health: What Kind of Impact Do They Have and How To Assess It?; C.Ulbert & B.Hamm PART III: CROSS-CUTTING THEMES Co-opting the Global Health Agenda: The Problematic Role of Partnerships and Foundations; T.Faubion, S.Paige & A.L.Pearson The Limits of Control: The Accountability of Foundations and Partnerships in Global Health; E.Hesselmann Coda: The End of One Era and the Start of Another: Partnerships, Foundations and the Shifting Political Economy of Global Health; O.D.Williams & S.RushtonAMY BARNES is a PhD researcher in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK.SONJA BARTSCH is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg.GARRETT WALLACE BROWN is Senior Lecturer in Global Political Theory and Global Ethics in thl£-