Queen Mary Global Public Health staff contribute to Oxford Handbook

The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics, published in March 2020, features two chapters written by Queen Mary Global Public Health staff.

The Handbook aims to go beyond the familiar focus on major diseases to encompass such political challenges as how agendas are defined, how core principles are enacted through operational activities, and what role the state, market, and civil society play in global health.

The chapter on Global Health and International Development (Dr Andrew Harmer and Dr Jonathan Kennedy) explores the relationship between international development and global health. Contrary to the view that development implies ‘good change’, this chapter argues that the discourse of development masks the destructive and exploitative practices of wealthy countries at the expense of poorer ones.

Dr Andrew Harmer is Senior Lecturer in Global Health Policy at the Centre for Global Public Health and Dr Jonathan Kennedy is a senior lecturer in global public health. 

The chapter on Civil Society and Global Health Politics (Professor David McCoy and Joseph Gafton) explores the political nature of civil society and its relationship to global health politics, including the political nature of new non-state actors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the emergence of global health partnerships, which have ostensibly increased civil society involvement in global health governance.

David McCoy is Professor of Global Public Health at the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health at Queen Mary University of London.

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