The Africa Governance Institute sheds in this post light on a study by the University of Edinburgh: Global Health Governance and African Health Systems - Issues, Actors, and Outcomes, where they argue that heightened attention to both Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pertaining to health as well as to specific African health crises underscores the importance of strengthening state capacities and global health governance norms, as well as rethinking policies. However they state that the relationship between capacities and norms is under-theorized, despite its central importance to developing health policy.