Abstract:
Suitors for the Hand of Global Health: biomedicine, burden of disease, social determinants of health, right to health.

There is and always has been a profusion of meanings about the domain global/international health.  To say that “Global health is public health on a global scale” is true but simplistic.  In this talk the speaker tries to give (a) a longitudinal (historical) overview of the aims and methods of global/international health since the 1850s and (b) to set out four current approaches that offer powerful but competing definitions, concerns and methods.

Bio:
Paul Greenough (UI) is Professor of History and of Community & Behavioral Health and co-director of the UI Global Health Studies Program. He has degrees in history from Columbia University and the University of Chicago.  Some of his publication are Against Stigma: Global Studies in Caste and Race Since Durban (edited with M. Natrajan, Orient Blackswan Publications, Hyderabad, 2009); Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia (edited with Anna Tsing, Duke University Press, 2003), and a monograph,  Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-1944.  (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983).  A forthcoming volume of essays is "The Politics of Vaccination: A Global History" (edited with Christine Holmberg and Stuart Blume, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2015).

Refreshments will be provided by the Geography department at 3:00 pm in the foyer.