Continuing this week’s theme of highlighting resources on the links between corruption/anticorruption and the coronavirus pandemic, in today’s guest post Sarah Steingrüber, an independent global health expert and Global Health Lead for CurbingCorruption, announces the following new resource on fighting corruption in the health sector:

Last week, the open-source academic journal Global Health Action, published a special issue on anticorruption, transparency, and accountability in the health sector. Although not about the COVID-19 situation specifically, this special issue—a joint undertaking with the World Health Organization—addresses crucial and highly relevant issues related to the health sector’s ability to prevent, detect, and sanction corruption, in order to address the threats that corruption poses to the health system’s ability to perform effectively during both crises and normal times.

After an introductory overview by Theadora Koller, David Clarke, and Taryn Vian, the special issue includes seven articles:

• Taryn Vian, Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability in Health: Concepts, Frameworks, and Approaches
• Sharifah Sekalala, Haleema Masud & Rebekah Thomas Bosco, Human Rights Mechanisms for Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability: Enabling the Right to Health
• Monica Twesiime Kirya, Promoting Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability in the Recruitment and Promotion of Health Workers to Safeguard Health Outcomes
• Jillian Clare Kohler & Deirdre Dimancesco, The Risk of Corruption in Public Pharmaceutical Procurement: How Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability Measures May Reduce This Risk
• Tim K. Mackey & Raphael E. Cuomo, An Interdisciplinary Review of Digital Technologies To Facilitate Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability in Medicines Procurement
• Mostafa Hunter, Rania Uwaydah Mardini, Arkan El-Seblani & Sammer Elsayed, Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability: Case Study of Healthcare in the Arab Countries
• Aneta Wierzynska, Sarah Steingrüber, Roxanne Oroxom & Sebastian Bauhoff, Recalibrating the Anti-Corruption, Transparency, and Accountability Formula To Advance Public Health