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Medical Humanities | Global Health Histories, Humanities, and the Profitabilities of Culturing Transparency and Empowerment



Event Date 10 Sep 2019 (Tue), 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Venue HSS Conference Room (HSS-05-57)
Organiser SoH Medical Humanities cluster (Email : soh_comms@ntu.edu.sg )


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What is history? Or, indeed, the humanities? That answer determines the quality of engagement and nature of impact on policy. History is powerfully present everywhere within WHO and national governance: in the form of memories of the run-up to successes (and failures), or in the use of a specific description of the past to justify current or future policy choices all represent history in action (every major report links itself to the past). So, how does a historian or humanities scholar independent of the WHO work to make a difference in international and health governance? By highlighting how many actors, voices and ideas come together from all levels of states and their societies to effect the implementation of health projects, at all times. This work, requiring multiple languages and international collaborations, underscores ups and downs, variations in, and the wide-ranging experiences of policy. Working hard to separate institutional publicity from lived experience of international and national health work, such scholarship offer more policy relevant information to national, international and global policy actors. Like all evidence-based knowledge, does our search for health equity gives this material a subjective twist?

Speaker: Sanjoy Bhattacharya

Sanjoy is a Professor of History of Medicine, Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories, Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator at the University of York, UK. Sanjoy’s current work deals with the history as well as the critical analysis of international and global health policy dealing with infectious disease control, elimination and eradication.



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