Framing Global Health
This section takes on issues with practitioners’ orientation to global health research and practice. Global health practitioners are positioned to impact health both positively or negatively. The ‘helping’ orientation of our field does not preclude us from causing considerable global harm, yet our self-righteousness often prevents us from recognizing the global harms we cause. Too often in global health, we use the nobility of our mission in defense of our less-than-noble practice. In Framing Global Health we present critiques and recommendations to improve how the important work of global health is done.
April 22, 2025
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, particularly in Africa, where communities have long been depicted as passive recipients of foreign assistance. Many people in Africa have played a crucial role in advancing HIV treatment, from early studies…
April 8, 2025
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 contraceptives, climate justice, HIV, and TB. The U.S. allocated $63.1 billion for foreign assistance in Fiscal Year 2024, with $10.5 billion for humanitarian aid and $4.1 billion for global health efforts….
April 10, 2024
Climate mortality: From rural Indian Women to Seattle’s homeless men
The climate crisis creates a tragic reality across the globe: women in India are succumbing to extreme heat, while homeless individuals, predominantly men, in Seattle are dying from extreme cold. Rohini Krishnamurthy, in the Indian Down to Earth magazine, sheds light on a troubling gender disparity in India coping with extreme temperatures. Since 2005, there…
