Global Health Justice

Global Health Is At A Critical Juncture: Will We Let The Moment Pass By?

Global Health Is At A Critical Juncture: Will We Let The Moment Pass By?

History shows that institutions often change not gradually but through sharp disruptions—critical junctures. These are moments of profound uncertainty and instability, when the usual...

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Barred from Healing: Denial of Qualified Medical Care Deepens Humanitarian Crises

Barred from Healing: Denial of Qualified Medical Care Deepens Humanitarian Crises

This article is written in Arabic and English. For the English version, please see below. في مناطق النزاع حول العالم، يمكن أن يكون الوصول...

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Wake Up Call for and from the Global South

Wake Up Call for and from the Global South

The withdrawal of U.S. foreign aid since the sudden freeze in January 2025 has underscored the need for a paradigm shift in global health,...

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War in Sudan: Unprecedented hunger and displacement

War in Sudan: Unprecedented hunger and displacement

The United Nations (UN) released a 10 April report stating that the 2-year war in Sudan is one of the worst humanitarian crises of...

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Global Health Catastrophe from 2025 U.S. Foreign Budget Freeze

Global Health Catastrophe from 2025 U.S. Foreign Budget Freeze

The Trump administration's 90-day freeze in January-March 2025 on U.S. foreign aid has blocked billions of dollars in funding for global health initiatives, including...

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Re-imagining foreign aid

Re-imagining foreign aid

Farah Stockman in her NY Times editorial decries the chaos and devastation from cuts in US foreign aid, but also calls for re-imagining a...

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Global Health Justice

Welcome to the Global Health Justice Website!

We aim to advance the struggle for global health justice by providing a platform and resources that explore fundamental drivers of health that are often absent in the conventional global health discourse. We recognize that global and national structures of domination, exploitation, and oppression play a crucial role in perpetuating poverty, disenfranchisement, and inequality – all of which have a profound impact on global health. Our goal is to expand our conversations to identify and better understand how injustice is perpetrated – and to work to transform power dynamics toward a fairer world.

By shedding light on these issues, we hope to promote a deeper understanding of the social and political determinants of health. To this end, we prioritize the perspectives and voices of those from the Global South, whose lived experiences and insights are essential for a truly comprehensive understanding of health justice.  We welcome contributions to the website, including relevant articles, videos, and artistic expression (eg, songs, poetry) to further explore these issues. We encourage our UW Global Health alumni to contribute to increase our collective awareness of the situation around the world.  Our website is a collaborative effort of faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the University of Washington Department of Global Health.