Seminars

What happens at the intersection of women's health and international relations? In this Global Health Unpacked seminar, Dr Sophie Harman will look closer at the state of gender in global health.

Can a new constitution impact health? In this Global Health Unpacked seminar, Dr Simon Rushton examines the case of Nepal.

How does online crowdfunding change the ways we seek and provide health care? In this seminar, Dr. Nora Kenworthy will discuss how crowdfunding reinforces the many problems of market-based health systems.

What novel forms of health interventions and markets do impact bonds generate? And in what ways is the provision of healthcare re-imagined through this financing mechanism?

In this seminar, Professor Susan Erikson will use the World Bank's pandemic bond fiasco to offer new insights into how capitalism shapes pandemic preparedness and response.

Can planetary health escape a technocratic tunnel vision on climate and health adaptation and contribute to contextualised, participatory policy actions that improve health equity? In this seminar, Dr. Remco van de Pas will unpack the planetary health paradigm.

What happens when political priorities, cultural squabbles and business interests undermine public health efforts during a pandemic? In this breakfast seminar, Professor Emily Mendenhall will discuss how people responded to COVID-19 in Okoboji, a small town in the American Midwest. 

How does health inform foreign policies? And how can health’s role in policy decision-making be strengthened? In this breakfast seminar, Professor Ronald Labontè will share his experiences from studying Canadian global health diplomacy over the last decade.

In this seminar, Dr Sarah Marks will discuss critiques of Global Mental Health and highlight experiences and practices in Ghana and Zimbabwe that integrate modern interventions with indigenous understandings of mental distress. 

How did India’s pharmaceutical industry become a major global supplier of generic medicines? And what role does India play in the globalized manufacturing and trade of generic antibiotics?

How do consulting firms influence global health politics? In this seminar, Assistant Professor Tine Hanrieder will present research on consulting firms' role in WHO reform and discuss how it raises new questions about WHO's convening power.

In this Global Health Unpacked seminar, pandemic expert Dr. Clare Wenham will discuss the proposed pandemic treaty and why it might not make the world better equipped to tackle future global health crises.

Models as viral assemblages? In this seminar, Marit Tolo Østebo will look at policy models and how they come into being.

How to strengthen global cooperation to prevent future pandemics? In this seminar, Adam Kamradt-Scott will discuss different proposals currently being negotiated, such as a new pandemic treaty or revising existing international instruments.

What are the most important transnational political determinants of health inequity as we enter the final decade of the SDG era, and how can we best address them?

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, billions of public monies are poured into high tech solutions. This panel will highlight the role of local public health systems, particularly the challenges in Africa and Latin America, and the US.

In this webinar, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik maps out global trends in 'Covid-19 law', including criminal law, welfare legislation and the human rights framework, with a view to draw out key lessons for global health.

Will digital innovations introduced during the crisis lead to more digital surveillance post-pandemic? Does their use advance the interests of private tech companies at the expense of the public interest?

When a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine is developed, will it be a “peoples vaccine” produced in time and scale, affordably priced, and available for all countries and all people?

What underlying logics, interests and evidence have fed into the Norwegian response to the covid-19 pandemic both in Norway and globally? Please join us for this webinar with Frode Forland, Specialist Director at the Norwegian Public Health Institute.

How and why do global health donors engage with faith-based organizations to implement projects? In this Global Health Unpacked seminar, Sibylle Herzig van Wees will analyze the modalities and implications of donor engagement of faith-based organization in the health sector in Cameroon.

In this global health unpacked seminar, Dr Mamady Cham will reflect on the difficulties of administrating under-funded public health systems in low and middle income countries, by drawing from his extensive experience in health management from The Gambia.

In this Global Health Unpacked seminar, Jody Harris will explore how and why certain international nutrition approaches have found their way into national nutrition policy and practice in Zambia.

Why and how do pathogens emerge from animal reservoirs? Using the case of East Cameroon and HIV,  Dr. Guillaume Lachenal (Université Paris Diderot) will draw on insights from molecular phylogeny and social anthropology to highlight the role of Humans in pathogen emergence.