Our Beyond Global theme explores how inequalities in power and resources affect the geographical and social distribution of health and illness and the development and implementation of health interventions across the globe. Theme Summary Global health inequalities in power, resources and relations affect health, illness and well being, as well as the development, implementation and access to health and health care. To address these issues. Our Beyond Global theme draws on feminist, intersectional and decolonising perspectives to interrogate historical and contemporary processes of globalisation, health inequalities and interventions, and marginalisation. We also seek to understand and critique the implications of globalised health for equity and social justice in high-income as much as low- and middle-income settings. Finally, we seek to highly the ethical obligations arising from such inequities. We foster creatively critical encounters between our different disciplinary methodologies and theoretical frames – including anthropology, sociology, history, ethics, and law. We seek to generate new narratives about biomedicine and health from the local to the global and back again. Our central research questions include: Provide 3-4 central questions Engagement and Outputs Understanding global health podcast 'Global health' means different things to different people—depending upon on where they stand within the unequal global distribution of institutional power and resources. The Beyond Global theme is developing a podcast that brings together the voices of critically engaged academics and practitioners from diverse locations within those global power structures. The podcast presents a polyvocal reflection on what global health is now, its strengths and weaknesses, and how it might develop in the future. Global health emergency regulation Rebecca Richards’s PhD research examines what obligations Global North countries have to ameliorate Global South healthcare professional shortages during global health emergencies. Rebecca seeks to reconceptualise Global South healthcare professional shortages as an example of a structural injustice resulting from Global North actions. Vulnerability and justice in global health emergency regulation Just Emergencies podcast Drug control and HIV/AIDS: the global in the local Reiko Kanazawa (Nagoya University) researches the history of global drug control policies since the second world war. She examines how policies have impacted and intersected with efforts to control infectious diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS. In April 2021, while working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CBSS, she hosted a virtual workshop Scotland in the Global: HIV through Injecting Drugs and Beyond, which invited historians and former practitioners to reflect on how HIV/AIDS in Scotland reflects broader themes in global health. Global reproductive justice Our Beyond Global theme lead Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra explores gender and reproductive justice from a global perspective, including access to abortion, conscientious objection as an obstacle to abortion, surrogacy, as well as anti-racist and decolonial approaches to global bioethics. Digitally supported public health interventions through the lens of structural injustice Justice and the racial dimensions of health inequalities Theme leads Agomoni Ganguli Mitra Steve Sturdy Researchers and partners Reiko Kanazawa Cath Montgomery Rebecca Richards Marlee Tichenor This article was published on 2024-09-24
