Description
The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that no country acting alone can respond effectively to health threats in a globalized world. Global governance is necessary to coordinate the global health response.
The core book “Reimagining Global Health” provides a comprehensive, original and compelling introduction to the field of global health. It evaluates the history and underlying philosophy of global health, from its colonial times through the present. In addition to evaluating successful and failed programs, it offers an overview of how our thoughts of reasonable expectations and limitations have changed.
The book examines creative ways of conducting programs pioneered by Partners in Health and other organizations and replicated to help populations treat HIV, TB, etc. Their interdisciplinary approach is multifaceted and requires an all hands-on deck approach that is geographically broad and historically deep.
Given the historic opportunity to reimagine global health governance in the age of COVID-19, it’s critical that our global society explore where we go from here, both philosophically and practically.
Weekly Topics
A Biosocial Approach to Global Health
Unpacking Global Health: Theory and Critique
Colonial Medicine and Its Legacies
Health for All? Competing Theories and Geopolitics
Redefining the Possible: The Global Aides Response
Building an Effective Rural Health Delivery Model in Haiti and Rwanda Haiti, Rwanda, Uganda: Comparison of Health Delivery Models
Scaling Up Effective Delivery Models Worldwide
The Unique Challenges of Mental Health and MDRTB: Critical Perspectives on Metrics of Disease
Values and Global Health
Taking Stock of Foreign Aid
Global Health Priorities for the Early Twenty-First Century
A Movement for Global Health Equity
Bibliography
Reimagining Global Health by Paul Farmer
