September 2019
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York, and Gustavo Corrêa Matta, Researcher from Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP), will discuss major challenges of primary health care in a historical perspective, analyzing global-regional policies and conceptions in health.
Global Health in HCS-Manguinhos:
The promise of history: Astana, São Paulo, and the challenges in Brazil – Science editors André Felipe Cândido da Silva and Marcos Cueto write about the crucial role of history in understanding the present.
The World Health Organization: A history – The book written by Marcos Cueto (science editor of HCSM), Theodore M. Brown (University of Rochester) and Elizabeth Fee (in memorian, National Library of Medicine) was launched by Cambridge University Press.
Health is not a commodity – See the Brazilian Contribution (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and National Health Council) to the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, Astana, October 2018.
Reconsidering the peripheral in global health – João Nunes (University of York) reviews this book considering its key contributions, which overall question commonly held assumptions about the origins and trajectory of international and global health.
The odyssey of global health revisited – A review of the book by Steven Palmer about the earlier years of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Fiocruz hosts international events on global health, ethics and leprosy -5-6 May 2016. Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro.
Global Health Social Science – This is an open access collaborative forum for anyone working in global health and using qualitative and participatory research methods. It aims to provide a space to share new resources and reflect on practice.
Global health ethics events to be broadcasted live – The University of York is to collaborate with the Wellcome Trust and the WHO to produce a high-profile series of seminars examining key issues in global bioethics in October.
Global health has a history – “Launching Global Health”, by Steven Palmer, illuminates the role played by international agencies in developing countries. Read the interview with the author.
“The rise of smoking in the Global South constitutes a health crisis of enormous proportions.” – In this interview to our blog, Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard University Allan M. Brandt said that the cigarette remains today the most deadly, legal product sold around the world.
Global Public health and National Security: an historical perspective – Patrick Zylberman analyzes the impact of war, religion and migration in global health.
