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Transnational Global Health programmes planned and financed in theNorth and executed in the Global South usually involve some transfer ofcapacity between sites or capacity building in place. Capacityinvestment in the form of skills, knowledge, experience and equipmentis often assumed to ‘flow' between countries, laboratories andinstitutions, following the trajectories of mobile subjects in theknowledge economy. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Danish andEast African scientists, this paper considers the mobilities that underpinscientific capacity building, drawing attention to the paradoxical in waysin which these programmes produce stasis and fixity, as well as mobilityand exchange. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Framing has previously been studied in the field of pandemic preparedness and global health governance and influenza pandemics have usually been framed in terms of security and evidence-based medicine on a global scale. This paper is based on the pandemic preparedness plans, published after 2009, from eight European countries. We study how pandemic preparedness is framed and how pandemic influenza in general is narrated in the plans. All plans contain references to ‘uncertainty’, ‘pandemic phases’, ‘risk management’, ‘vulnerability’ and ‘surveillance’. These themes were all framed differently in the studied plans. The preparedness plans in the member states diverge in ways that will challenge the ambition of the European Union to make the pandemic preparedness plans interoperable and to co-ordinate the member states during future pandemics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]