Global Health Politics Workshop: Spring 2025 Schedule
Thursday, February 6, 2025
“The Politics of Primary Health Care”
Kevin Croke, Assistant Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Anuska Kalita, Health Systems Specialist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
“Follow the Image: Seeing the Entanglement of Health and Security”
Katharina Krause, Research Associate, International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen, Germany
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
“Unnecessary Hysterectomy in India: Puzzling Patterns Around Women’s Bodies and Health Systems”
Sapna Desai, Senior Fellow, Population Council Institute
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Hysterectomy – the removal of the uterus – presents a puzzling public health challenge in India. The average age of hysterectomy is strikingly low and appears to be used as a permanent solution for common gynecological ailments, mainly among rural women who have completed childbearing. This talk will examine hysterectomy as it relates to women’s health and rights, sub-national health systems in India, and other social determinants.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
“Antiblackness and Global Health: A Response to Ebola in the Colonial Wake”
Lioba Hirsch, Wellcome Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
“Is it Possible to Shift Power in Global Health?”
Madhukar Pai, Professor and Inaugural Chair, Department of Global & Public Health, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University
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Global health is a highly inequitable field, with Global North individuals and institutions dominating every aspect. To reimagine global health and shift power to people and institutions on the margins and the periphery, everyone in global health must advocate for and activate two forces: leadership by the Global South and allyship by the Global North. In this talk, Madhukar Pai (Professor and Inaugural Chair, Department of Global & Public Health, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University) discussed several institutional barriers that prevent meaningful shifts in the distribution of power in global health.