2023
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An engaging meeting with this year's Arne Næss professor, Jason Hickel.
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.
Seminar with Venezuelan economist Manuel Sutherland.
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.
Why do we consume as we do, how is consumption changing, and why do we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet?
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?