What's New? Continuity and Change in Abortion Stigma and Access in Post-Apartheid South Africa
5.00PM, Zoom Webinar
Susanne Klausen
"The Bounds of Compassion?": medical mercy killings in South Africa, 1979s-1990s
Monday 15 February 2021
GHH seminar 151: Antimicrobial Resistance – Global Policy, Clinical Practice and Public Responses
Monday 30 November 2020
GHH 150: History of Malaria elimination in Sri Lanka
Monday 12 October 2020
GHH 149: Women in the History of Tropical Medicine
Tuesday 4 August 2020
GHH 148: Can malaria be eradicated? The future of malaria control
Thursday 9 July 2020
COVID-19, the WHO, and International Society
Wednesday 10 June 2020
Thriving: the role of culture in defining and advancing well-being
Thursday 7 May 2020
Global Health Histories Seminar #147 - A puff of smoke: What next for tobacco control?
Monday 27 April 2020
Global Health Histories Seminar 146: Health Diplomacy: The bases for international and global health
Friday 6 March 2020
Global Health Histories Seminar 145: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Technological Challenges
Friday 6 March 2020
Global Health Histories Seminar 144: COVID19: Inter-disciplinary approaches
Thursday 27 February 2020
Global Health Histories Seminar 143: Mental Health and Inequalities
Friday 14 February 2020
Thursday 6 February 2020
Global Health Histories Seminar 141: Global Health Futures
Friday 31 January 2020
Global Health Histories Seminar 140: Decolonizing Global health - Theories, Methods, Language
Friday 31 January 2020
Global Health Histories Seminar 139: Children and Research
Thursday 16 January 2020
Global Health Histories Seminar 138: 200 million lives saved: Smallpox eradication 40 years on
Tuesday 5 November 2019
AboutFace Launch Event - Framing the face: history, emotion, transplantation
Friday 25 October 2019
Tuesday 22 October 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 136: Private Sector Engagement in the Health Sector in India
Monday 21 October 2019
Wednesday 25 September 2019
Monday 23 September 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 133: The Health Challenges of Social Marginalisation
Thursday 12 September 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 132: Infectious Diseases: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives
Wednesday 11 September 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 131: 'Man Up’: Masculinities and mental health seeking behaviors
Tuesday 3 September 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 130: Mental Health
Monday 2 September 2019
Tuesday 2 July 2019
Tuesday 25 June 2019
Tuesday 18 June 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 126: The Political Economy of Health Financing Reforms
Monday 10 June 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 125: Safety and Society: Cycle helmet debates
Tuesday 4 June 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 124: Health in Emergencies
Sunday 7 April 2019
Tuesday 2 April 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 122: Communities for Health in Africa
Friday 29 March 2019
GHH 121: The Creation & Expansion of the Worldwide Smallpox Eradication Programme
Thursday 28 March 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 120: History, Culture and Global Health Sustainability
Thursday 14 March 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 119 - Air pollution: Local contexts, universal effects
Wednesday 6 March 2019
Tuesday 5 March 2019
Tuesday 5 March 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 116: Antimicrobial Resistance
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Monday 21 January 2019
Global Health Histories Seminar 114: Community Health Workers
Monday 5 November 2018
Global Health Histories Seminar 113: Immunization for Universal Health Coverage
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Adventures, archives, and anguish in undertaking AIDS research
Monday 15 October 2018
Global Health Histories Seminar 111 - Zika
Monday 8 October 2018
Global Health Histories Seminar 110: Polio, Immunization and Universal Health Coverage
Tuesday 25 September 2018
Global Health Histories Seminar 109: Health Communication
Friday 14 September 2018
GHH Seminar 108: Tuberculosis, Infectious Disease Control & Primary Health Care
Thursday 5 July 2018
Tuesday 3 July 2018
Tuesday 19 June 2018
How do we study transitions in health and medicine?
Thursday 31 May 2018
Global Health Histories 106 - 'Strategies of Anti-Panic: A New Approach to Epidemic Panic'
Friday 18 May 2018
Thursday 10 May 2018
Global Health Histories 105: 'Cultural contexts of health and well-being: Can art save lives?'
Tuesday 8 May 2018
Global Health Histories Seminar 104: Tobacco Control - Histories & Current Global Challenges
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Marginalised mothers: health communication and maternal health in East Africa, 1920-2017
Monday 19 February 2018
From Face/Off to the Face Race: An Emotional History of the Face Transplant
Monday 22 January 2018
Global Health Histories 103 - 'United Nations, Health Systems & UHC: histories, present & future'
Wednesday 17 January 2018
Trust in Global Health Workshop
Friday 1 December 2017
Thursday 7 September 2017
Thursday 22 June 2017
Fraud and Veracity in Early Modern Observations of Generation
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Lines of sight:visions of Senegalese public health
Thursday 27 April 2017
Lessons from the Tin Woodman: Disability and the Posthuman
Thursday 9 March 2017
Dependent Agency in the Global Health Regime: Local African Responses to Donor AIDS Efforts
Tuesday 7 March 2017
Unseen City: Travelling Psychoanalysis and the Urban Poor
Thursday 16 February 2017
Medicine & Visual Culture Research Masterclass
Wednesday 8 February 2017
"Aedes aegypti": Old and New Sanitary Emergencies, Global Health Histories Seminar 100
Friday 2 December 2016
Wednesday 30 November 2016
The Visual Politics of the WHO in Historical Perspective (1949-1974)
Wednesday 26 October 2016
Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, evolution and fraud
Thursday 20 October 2016
Challenging stereotypes of ‘Science’ and ‘Belief’: STEM as cultural identity in a pluralist world?
Thursday 13 October 2016
Environment and Health: Global Health Histories Seminar 99
Friday 7 October 2016
Across the borders: German-Brazilian Psychiatry between 1900 and 1930
Wednesday 5 October 2016
Monday 3 October 2016
Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past: International Workshop
Wednesday 14 September 2016
"You are how you eat" Food and Nutrition: Global Health Histories Seminar 98
Thursday 25 August 2016
Tuesday 21 June 2016
Bioethics at the World Health Organization: Global Health Ethics Seminar
Thursday 16 June 2016
Festival of Ideas: "Mental Health for All"
Saturday 11 June 2016
Colonial Population and the Idea of Development - Research Masterclass
Thursday 2 June 2016
Leprosy: Global Health Histories Seminar 97
Friday 6 May 2016
'Bioethics' - Global Health Ethics Seminar 4
Thursday 5 May 2016
Gender, the Bible, and the Spanish Monarchy (1600-1800)
Thursday 28 April 2016
UK Premiere of '50 Years of Shame'
Thursday 21 April 2016
Responsible Use of Antibiotics - A Question of Justice? Global Health Ethics Seminar 3
Tuesday 22 March 2016
""Death of the King": Smallpox Vaccination and Diplomacy in Nepal in 1816" Masterclass
Wednesday 9 March 2016
Tuesday 8 March 2016
"Not Everyone Can be a Gandhi": The Global Indian Medical Diaspora in the post-WWII Era
Thursday 3 March 2016
Ebola and Ethics - The Unfinished Agenda - Global Health Ethics Seminar 2
Tuesday 8 December 2015
Chikungunya: Global Health Histories Seminar 95
Thursday 3 December 2015
Air Pollution: Global Health Histories Seminar 94
Friday 20 November 2015
Cultural Contexts of Health: Migration. Global Health Histories Seminar 93
Thursday 12 November 2015
Trial and Evolution: Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis in Britain, 1940-70
Thursday 22 October 2015
Evidence Based Medicine & Health Policy: Global Health Histories Seminar 92
Thursday 15 October 2015
Tuesday 13 October 2015
Ebola: exploring the cultural contexts of an epidemic
Thursday 8 October 2015
Eugenics as a Secular Religion
Thursday 1 October 2015
Tuesday 29 September 2015
GHH would like to welcome Leandro Viegas, a PhD candidate from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) who is currently collaborating with Dr Joao Nunes as a visiting researcher to the Department of Politics.
Leandro is a skilled government official with recognised experience on international affairs, having represented Brazil in missions to WHO, PAHO and the UN both on governing body's meetings and intergovernmental negotiations, such as the IGWG, FCTC-COPs and high-level conferences. Leandro holds a Masters degree in Global Health and Health Diplomacy from the National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. His current research is focused on examining the decision-making process at WHO on the international response to the Zika virus and the congenital neurological syndromes.