Part of the Network: Medical Humanities-Oxford Global Health: A Glossary for Global Health Written by Androulla Kyrillou (Oxford Global Health) The first Medical Humanities-Global Health Glossary Workshop brought together researchers from across disciplines to explore one of global health’s most frequently used – and contested – concepts: equity. This question was at the heart of… Read More »What do we mean by equity in global health?
Authors: Alberto Giubilini (philosophy), Caesar Atuire (philosophy), Sloan Mahone (history), Ann Kelly (anthropology), Tolulope Osayomi (medical geography) Report of the Medical Humanities workshop held on 7th November 2025 at the University of Oxford This interdisciplinary workshop wanted to explore the contribution that the humanities can make to global health, and indeed emphasize their necessary role… Read More »Equity in Global Health: reflections from the Humanities
What makes health ‘global’? This is the question I have addressed in a recent article in the journal Developing World Bioethics. I am afraid, however, that I don’t have an answer. Nor was answering the aim of the article. After all, many definitions of ‘global health’ exist in the literature and most of them are… Read More »‘Global health’: a problematic concept?
