Dr Tiziana Leone, Dr Philipa Mladovsky & Professor Ken Shadlen

The course will provide an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to global health and the politics of global health in low and middle-income countries. Linking policy and social theory with empirical evidence, the course is grounded in past and current events in global health.

The course examines the main determinants of health as they relate to development and their principal consequences, policies and their politics to improve health and development; barriers to implementing those policies; and identifying ways of overcoming those barriers.

The course will analyse the politics of the burden of disease including non-communicable and communicable diseases. The course will highlight the politics of global health at the time of pandemics, learning lessons from COVID-19. The impact of conflict, climate change and migration on health will be considered. The course will engage in critical discussion of health-focused targets and international indicators such as the Sustainable Development Goals, the pharmaceutical industry, multilateral and bilateral donors and universal health coverage policies.