Week 1 - Introduction to Global Health

Dr Chris Willott
Dr Chris Willott
Chris Willott is Lecturer in Global Health Education at the King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships.

Week 1

In our first lecture Dr. Chris Willot outlines the complex nature of Global Health from its philosophical underpinnings to its practical considerations. This lecture seeks to define a working definition of the subject whilst also exploring its relevance today.

Please find more material under these links

Suggested Articles

Decolonizing global health: what should be the target of this movement and where does it lead us?

Kwete, Xiaoxiao; Tang, Kun; et al.

Global Health Research and Policy, 7, 2022

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s41256-022-00237-3.pdf

DOI: 10.1186/s41256-022-00237-3

https://ghrp.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41256-022-00237-3

Education of health professionals for the 21st century: a global independent Commission
Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Chen, Lincoln; et al.

The Lancet, 375, 2010

DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60450-3

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(10)60450-3.pdf

Global health learning outcomes for medical students in the UK. Johnson, Oliver;

Lou Bailey, Sarah et al.

The Lancet, 379, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61582-1

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(11)61582-1.pdf

'Global health': meaning what?

Taylor, Sebastian

BMJ Global Health 3, 20§8

DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000843

https://gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/3/2/e000843.full.pdf

Towards a common definition of global health.

Rey, Jeff; Koplan, P; et al.

The Lancet, 373, 2009

DOI: 10.1016/S0140

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(09)60332-9.pdf

Suggested Further Reading:

The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world. Marmot, Michael. Bloomsbury 2015

Global Health and Global Health Ethics. Solomon Benatar, Gillian Brock. Cambridge University Press 2011

Governing Global Health; Who Runs the World and Why? Clinton, Chelsea; Sridhar, Devi. Oxford University Press, 2017

Reimagining global health: an introduction. Farmer, Paul. University of California Press 2013

Websites

The WHO Global Health Observatory

https://www.who.int/data/gho

The UN SDGs [Goal 3 Good Health and Well Being]

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/health/