Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée

Doctoral Research Fellow - Senter for utvikling og miljø

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Academic interests

Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée is a PhD candidate in International Politics at the Centre for Development and the Environment. He is interested in global health governance and global cooperation to manage dangerous disease outbreaks such as Ebola (global health security).

His PhD project titled "New actors in the governance of epidemic response" aims to unpack how the public sector, military forces, international organizations, commercial companies and NGOs work together to respond to dangerous outbreaks through Emergency Medical Teams.

He previously studied Norway’s response to the 2014-2015 Ebola crisis and was involved in research analyzing the role of civil society in global health and the Nordic development aid model (Nordic Branding project)

Administrative responsibilities

Antoine is coordinator of the Independent Panel on Global Governance for Health, of the research group Power and Politics of Global Health and its Global Health Unpacked seminar series. He also coordinates the research group "The politics of Nordic Generosity" at SUM.

PhD supervisor

Dr Katerini Storeng, Associate Professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo

Background

Antoine holds a MA in International Relations and European Studies from Sciences Po (Lille, 2015) and a MA in Culture, Environment and Sustainability from Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo (2017). His master thesis was titled "Securitization of a humanitarian crisis: Norway’s international response to Ebola" (2017).

Prior to this PhD fellowship, Antoine has been a research assistant and then a junior researcher at SUM for three and half years.

Tags: Global Health, Ebola, Global Governance, Global Health Security, Public-Private Partnerships, qualitative research

de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Storeng, Katerini (2022). COVAX, vaccine donations and the politics of global vaccine inequity. Globalization and Health. ISSN 1744-8603. 18(1). doi: 10.1186/s12992-022-00801-z.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Stein, Felix (2021). COVAX and the rise of the ‘super public private partnership’ for global health. Global Public Health. ISSN 1744-1692. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2021.1987502. Full text in Research Archive
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Kittelsen, Sonja (2019). "Disease knows no borders": Pandemics and the politics of global health security. In Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Carlsen, Benedicte (Ed.), Pandemics, Publics, and Politics - Staging Responses to Public Health Crises. Palgrave Pivot. ISSN 978-981-13-2801-5. p. 59–73. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-2802-2.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine ; Kittelsen, Sonja & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2018). Krise! Hvordan beredskapslogikk endrer global helsepolitikk. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. ISSN 0029-2001. 138(16), p. 1–7. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.18.0572.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Civil society participation in global public-private partnerships for health. Health Policy and Planning. ISSN 0268-1080. 33(8), p. 928–936. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czy070. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Abstract The growth of global public-private partnerships for health has opened up new spaces for civil society participation in global health governance. Such participation is often justified by the claim that civil society organizations, because of their independence and links to communities, can help address democratic deficits in global-level decision-making processes. This article examines the notion of ‘civil society engagement’ within major public–private partnerships for health, where civil society is often said to play a particularly important role in mediating between public and private spheres. How do major global health partnerships actually define ‘civil society’, who represents civil society within their global-level decision-making bodies, and what formal power do civil society representatives hold relative to other public and private-sector partners? Based on a structured analysis of publicly available documents of 18 of the largest global public–private partnerships for health, we show that many of them make laudatory claims about the value of their ‘civil society engagement’. Most use the term ‘civil society’ to refer to non-governmental organizations and communities affected by particular health issues, and state that they expect these actors to represent the needs and interests of specific populations in global-level decisions about strategies, funding models and policies. Yet, such civil society actors have a relatively low level of representation within the partnerships’ boards and steering committees, especially compared with private-sector actors (10.3 vs 23.7%). Moreover, there is little evidence of civil society representatives’ direct and substantial influence within the partnerships’ global-level governing bodies, where many decisions affecting country-level programmes are made. Rather, their main role within these partnerships seems to be to implement projects and advocate and raise funds, despite common discourses that emphasise civil society's watchdog function and transformative power. The findings suggest the need for in-depth research into the formal and informal power of civil society within global health governance processes.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Norway’s Response to Ebola: Balancing Altruistic and Security Concerns . Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 76(2), p. 89–120. doi: 10.23865/intpol.v76.1089. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This article explores the motivations behind Norway’s contributions to the global response to Ebola (2014). Unpacking the interests, norms and context at play, it finds that the repatriation of an Ebola-infected volunteer triggered a strong governmental response. Humanitarian in nature but partially securitized, this response was driven by altruistic and security concerns: a desire to provide assistance and the ambition to contain the epidemic at its source, while managing domestic fears. This analysis concurs with publications highlighting the centrality of security considerations in the global Ebola response, while suggesting that humanitarian motivations should not be overlooked. Finally, it argues that the theoretical divide between a “statist” and “globalist” approach to global health security does not fully capture the complexity at play in the operationalisation of the concept. Therefore, the analysis introduces the idea of a “universalist” understanding of global health security, using the global level as referent for security and allowing for a balance between realpolitik and idealpolitik.

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de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Bjørkdahl, Kristian (2021). Do-Gooders at the End of Aid: Scandinavian Humanitarianism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108772129.

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Storeng, Katerini; Stein, Felix & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). COVAX and the many meanings of sharing. BMJ Global Health. ISSN 2059-7908. Show summary
The COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility (COVAX) has been promoted as the ‘only global solution’ to end the accute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The notion of ‘sharing’ has been a central trope in policy debate about this ‘vaccine-sharing’ scheme. In the first eighteen months of the pandemic, COVAX has struggled to share the risks and benefits of vaccine development, wealthy countries’ excess vaccine doses, and the burden of financing COVAX and the wider Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), of which it is part. In the global pandemic response, the term ‘sharing’ glosses various kinds of transactions, some of which jar with commonplace understandings of what it means ‘to share’. COVAX’s approach to vaccine sharing obscures what it does not share: decision-making power and the knowledge and technology to produce vaccines everywhere.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Storeng, Katerini (2021). Tredje dose hjemme eller vaksinere verden? [Newspaper]. Aftenposten.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Storeng, Katerini (2021). Americans demanded freedom from tracking during Covid, and then grabbed their phones. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Think blog.
Storeng, Katerini; de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Stein, Felix (2021). Norge har gitt 4 milliarder til pandemisamarbeid nesten ingen forstår. [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine ; Jumbert, Maria Gabrielsen; Browning, Christopher; Marklund, Carl & Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2021). Nordic peace, humanitarianism, and welfare model.
Storeng, Katerini & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Vaksiner og global rettferdighet. Show summary
"Vaksiner og global rettferdighet" (Vaccines and global justice), in I Samme Verden (prepared for the subject of religion and ethics in Norwegian upper secondary schools) available at: https://isammeverden.cappelendamm.no/nyhet.html?tid=3013350, 1st October 2021. (Katerini Storeng and Antoine de Bengy Puyvallee cited).
Storeng, Katerini & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). The uncomfortable truth about Norway's pandemic leadership. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Blog - International Health Policies.
Storeng, Katerini & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Den ubehagelige sannheten om Norges globale vaksineinnsats. [Newspaper]. Aftenposten.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Podcast: "Vaccine nationalism and vaccine diplomacy". [Radio]. Dan Banik, In Pursuit of Development podcast.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). «Overraskende at flere EU-land nå forsøker å få takk i vaksinedoser utenfor EU-samartbeidet». [TV]. TV2 Nyhetskanalen .
Schwenke, Morten & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). «Kunne Norge «tatt en New Zealand?» Flere tror det ville kostet for mye» . [Newspaper]. Aftenposten.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Storeng, Katerini (2021). The Big Digital Contact Tracing Experiment. Global Policy. ISSN 1758-5880. 12(6), p. 93–96.
Hodne, Anna Myklebust & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Enorme forskjeller i vaksinekappløpet – dette er de største utfordringene nå. [Newspaper]. TV2.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Biden har videreført Amerika først-politikken. [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet. Show summary
Det er på høy tid at USA bidrar til å rette opp den enorme globale skjevfordelingen, selv om veien til en global løsning på krisen fortsatt er langt, skriver Katerini Storeng og Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Norge bør bruke plassen i Sikkertsrådet til å bidra til mer rettferdig internasjonal helsepolitikk. [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Stein, Felix (2021). GLOBVAC 2021, Symposium 3: Politics of Pandemic Preparedness.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Danmark inngår vaksinesamarbeid med Østerrike og Israel. [TV]. TV2.no.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Vaksinekappløpet. [Newspaper]. Klassekampen.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Gikk fra forhandlingene. [Newspaper]. Klassekampen.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Vaksineplan slår sprekker. [Newspaper]. Klassekampen.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine ; Stein, Felix & McNeill, Desmond (2021). What Norway should ask of the pharmaceutical industry in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Legemiddelselskapene har voldsom makt, selv over rike land. [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2021). Sololøp er ikke veien å gå i den globale vaksinekampen. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). NRK Radio Nyhetsmorgen - Vaksinekrangel etter forsinkelser til EU. [Radio]. NRK Radio Nyhetsmorgen.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). What is COVAX and is it helping poor countries get access to COVID-19 vaccines? . [Internet]. EuroNews.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Nå er silkehanskene av i kampen om vaksinedosene. [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Why Norway shouldn’t go solo in the global vaccine race. [Internet]. Blog - International Health Policies.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Folkehelsegevinsten av Smittestopp må dokumenteres. [Newspaper]. Dagsavisen.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Smarttelefonpandemien. [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet - https://morgenbladet.no/ideer/2021/02/smartte.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2021). Big Tech and the digital response to Covid-19. [Internet]. Blog - International Health Policies.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Sånn ble lille Norge en global leder i covid-19 bekjempelsen. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Why does Pfizer deny the public investment in its Covid-19 vaccine? IHP (International Health Policies).
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Sannheten, ifølge Pfizer. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Det store Smittestopp-eksperimentet. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Book review: Data Justice and COVID-19. Global Perspectives . Security Dialogue. ISSN 0967-0106.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). COVID et anticipation des menaces sanitaires.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Frokostseminar. Hva må til for å sikre vaksine til alle?
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Banik, Dan (2020). The Coronavirus: State Capacity and Crisis Response in China. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Global Policy Opinion.
Avlesen-Østli, Siri Nilminie & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Koronavirusutbruddet – politiske konsekvenser. [TV]. TV2 Nyhetskanalen.
Usher, Ann Danaiya & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). US think tanks push for new fund to help poor countries combat coronavirus. [Newspaper]. Development Today.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). The many faces of the COVID-19 epidemic response. [Internet]. International Health Politics.
Lindtner, Nora Charlotte & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Slik mørklegger diktaturene corona-sannheten. [Newspaper]. Dagbladet.
Smedsrud, Morten Skipenes & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Internasjonale organisasjoner svikter i korona-krise. [Newspaper]. Apollon.
Metin, Juliette & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Les réponses politiques à l’épidémie en France et en Norvège : entretien avec un chercheur français en Norvège . [Internet]. Institut Français de Norvège, .
Drefvelin, Caroline & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Hit går Ernas vaksinemilliarder. [Newspaper]. Dagbladet.
Lundgaar, Hilde & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Ny smitterekord i USA. Hvorfor klarer ikke USA å stande koronaviruset? [Newspaper]. Aftenposten.
Rønning, Asle O & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Tidsfrist nærmer seg for global vaksineløsning. [Newspaper]. Bistandsaktuelt.
Amundsen, Bård & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Hvorfor dør flere av korona i USA enn Europa? [Business/trade/industry journal]. Forskning.no.
Westeng, Kjersti & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Regjeringen ber oss følge strengere smitteverntiltak: - Det oppstår forvirring blant det norske folk om hva tiltakene egentlig betyr. [Newspaper]. Nettavisen.
Holsten, Hilde; de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2020). «Hva gjør at noen samfunn lykkes bedre med koronahåndtering?» . [Internet]. Senter for Utvikling og Miljø.
Time, Jon Kåre; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2020). Mener Norge bør svinge pisken mot vaksineselskapene. [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Ingeborg, Eliassen (2020). Ble maktesløst vitne til død – selv om vaksinen fantes. [Newspaper]. NRK.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Holsten, Hilde Hartmann (2020). The politics behind the COVID-19 responses. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Sciencenorway. Show summary
How much are we willing to sacrifice to protect ourselves against COVID-19? How do we battle the virus while minimizing the consequences? Managing an epidemic requires tackling the health consequences of the outbreak, as well as its social, political, security, and economic dimensions. This implies setting priorities between various interests and goals – in short, a lot of politics. What follows is a non-exhaustive overview of the many considerations and important questions national authorities must reflect on in their response to COVID-19.
de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2019). Global Health and the Digital Wild West. IHP (International Health Policies).
Fermariello, Ugo & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2019). Kommentar om Verdens Helse Organisasjons erklæring av Ebola utbruddet i DRC Kongo som global helsekrise. [TV]. NRK Dagsnytt18.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Civil society participation in global public-private partnerships for health.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Sivilsamfunnsdeltakelse i globale partnerskap for helse .
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Global Governance for Health: what role for civil society?
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Utviklingsministeren idealiserer sivilsamfunnets rolle som vaktbikkje. Dagsavisen - Nye Meninger.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Derfor er sivilsamfunnets rolle i globale beslutningsprosesser viktig. Dagsavisen - Nye Meninger.
Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Uetisk å banalisere hiv. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
Bolle, Tor Aksel & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2017). Norsk ebolainnsats får kritikk . [Business/trade/industry journal]. Bistandsaktuelt.
Amland, Bjørn & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2017). How Norway’s Ebola response turned into a security operation. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Development Today.
Kildal, Charlotte L; Holsten, Hilde Hartmann; de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine & Roalkvam, Sidsel (2017). Norges ebola-repons endret seg da en norsk kvinne ble smittet. [Journal]. Forskning.no. Show summary
Norge ga mer penger til krisehåndtering da den norske kvinnen ble ebola-smittet. Men det første ikke nødvendigvis til bedre hjelp, ifølge masterstudent.
Puyvallée, Antoine de Bengy & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2017). Protecting the vulnerable is protecting ourselves: Norway and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. ISSN 0029-2001. 137(12-13), p. 908–910. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.17.0208. Show summary
Norway has played a critical role in the recent launch of the new Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation, revealing Norway’s powerful position in global health. But how will Norway help put the coalition’s governance principles – political legitimacy, representation and accountability – into practice? And how will a more security-based approach impact Norwegian global health policy and research?

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