The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that no country acting alone can respond effectively to health threats in a globalized world. Global governance is necessary to coordinate the global health response.
The core book “Reimagining Global Health” provides a comprehensive, original and compelling introduction to the field of global health. It evaluates the history and underlying philosophy of global health, from its colonial times through the present. In addition to evaluating successful and failed programs, it offers an overview of how our thoughts of reasonable expectations and limitations have changed.
The book examines creative ways of conducting programs pioneered by Partners in Health and other organizations and replicated to help populations treat HIV, TB, etc. Their interdisciplinary approach is multifaceted and requires an all hands-on deck approach that is geographically broad and historically deep.
Given the historic opportunity to reimagine global health governance in the age of COVID-19, it’s critical that our global society explore where we go from here, both philosophically and practically.
1. A Biosocial Approach to Global Health
2. Unpacking Global Health: Theory and Critique
3. Colonial Medicine and Its Legacies
4. Health for All? Competing Theories and Geopolitics
5. Redefining the Possible: The Global Aides Response
6. Building an Effective Rural Health Delivery Model in Haiti and Rwanda
Haiti, Rwanda, Uganda: Comparison of Health Delivery Models
7. Scaling Up Effective Delivery Models Worldwide
8. The Unique Challenges of Mental Health and MDRTB: Critical Perspectives on Metrics of Disease
9. Values and Global Health
10. Taking Stock of Foreign Aid
11. Global Health Priorities for the Early Twenty-First Century
12. A Movement for Global Health Equity
Summary
Reimagining Global Health by Paul Farmer