Global Health Histories Seminar 116: Antimicrobial Resistance

Wednesday 30 January 2019

This seminar explores the global challenges presented by antimicrobial resistance

Global Health Histories Seminar 115: The WHO's Public Information Activities in Historical Perspective

Monday 21 January 2019

This installment in the Global Health Histories series looks back at historic WHO public information strategies

Global Health Histories Seminar 114: Community Health Workers

Monday 5 November 2018

The expert panel will examine the role of community workers from the 1970s up until the present day

Global Health Histories Seminar 113: Immunization for Universal Health Coverage

Wednesday 24 October 2018

The latest installment in the Global Health Histories series, focussing on immunization

Global Health Histories Seminar 112: Faith in Universal Health Coverage: Primary Health Care at 40 and the World Council of Churches at 70

Wednesday 17 October 2018

A special Global Health Histories seminar marking the 40th Anniversary of the Declaration of Alma Ata

Adventures, archives, and anguish in undertaking AIDS research

Monday 15 October 2018

Join CGHH for a public lecture with Dr Carla Tsampiras

Global Health Histories Seminar 111 - Zika

Monday 8 October 2018

Join us in the Berrick Saul Building for the return of the popular Global Health Histories series

Global Health Histories Seminar 110: Polio, Immunization and Universal Health Coverage

Tuesday 25 September 2018

Our third Global Health Histories seminar to be hosted in York, focusing this time on polio eradication

Global Health Histories Seminar 109: Health Communication

Friday 14 September 2018

In this seminar, the expert panel will analyse health promotion strategies, doctor-patient communications, and discuss the role of communication in helping to achieve Universal Health Coverage.

GHH Seminar 108: Tuberculosis, Infectious Disease Control & Primary Health Care

Thursday 5 July 2018

Join us for this panel discussion as the Global Health Histories series returns to York

Global Health Histories Seminar 107: Cultural contexts of health: vaccine hesitancy - Why do some people not vaccinate?

Tuesday 3 July 2018

Join us for a seminar exploring the historical, political and cultural factors that have influenced the public’s willingness to accept vaccination

The Cholera Pandemic, Transnational Politics, and the Cold War in Southeast Asia and China, 1960-1965

Tuesday 19 June 2018

Join us for a CGHH research workshop with Professor Xiaoping Fang

How do we study transitions in health and medicine?

Thursday 31 May 2018

Join CGHH for a workshop with Professor V. Sujatha on transitions in health and medicine

Global Health Histories 106 - 'Strategies of Anti-Panic: A New Approach to Epidemic Panic'

Friday 18 May 2018

The 106th Global Health Histories seminar will focus on strategies of anti-panic and new approaches to rumour control.

“’No Other Help Wins More Friends’: The Cold War, Decolonization, and the WHO Global Yaws Control Programme, 1944-52”

Thursday 10 May 2018

Join us for a workshop on the history of the WHO Global Yaws Control Programme

Global Health Histories 105: 'Cultural contexts of health and well-being: Can art save lives?'

Tuesday 8 May 2018

The latest Global Health Histories seminar focuses on the use of arts and culture in health promotion.

Global Health Histories Seminar 104: Tobacco Control - Histories & Current Global Challenges

Tuesday 24 April 2018

Join us in York for the 104th Global Health Histories seminar, on histories and current global challenges of tobacco control

Marginalised mothers: health communication and maternal health in East Africa, 1920-2017

Monday 19 February 2018

Join us in the Treehouse for a public lecture with Dr Shane Doyle

From Face/Off to the Face Race: An Emotional History of the Face Transplant

Monday 22 January 2018

Our first public lecture of 2018, with Dr Fay Bound Alberti

Global Health Histories 103 - 'United Nations, Health Systems & UHC: histories, present & future'

Wednesday 17 January 2018

The 103rd GHH seminar focuses on 'United Nations, Health Systems and UHC: histories, present and future'

Trust in Global Health Workshop

Friday 1 December 2017

Details about the forthcoming interdisciplinary workshop on Trust in Global Health.

Strengthening Universal Health Coverage for the fight against Anti-Microbial Resistance: Global Health Histories Seminar 102

Thursday 7 September 2017

The 102nd Global Health Histories seminar, this instalment assesses what can be done to strengthen Universal Health Coverage in the fight against AMR

'A world that counts?' Contexts of health: Information for Health, Global Health Histories Seminar 101

Thursday 22 June 2017

'A world that counts?' Contexts of health: Information for Health

Fraud and Veracity in Early Modern Observations of Generation

Wednesday 17 May 2017

Join us for a public lecture with Dr Signe Nipper Nielsen

Lines of sight:visions of Senegalese public health

Thursday 27 April 2017

Join us for a public lecture with Dr Branwyn Poleykett

Lessons from the Tin Woodman: Disability and the Posthuman

Thursday 9 March 2017

Join us for a public lecture with Professor Stuart Murray

Dependent Agency in the Global Health Regime: Local African Responses to Donor AIDS Efforts

Tuesday 7 March 2017

Join us for a public lecture with Dr Emma Louise Anderson

Unseen City: Travelling Psychoanalysis and the Urban Poor

Thursday 16 February 2017

Join us for the Centre for Global Health Histories' first public lecture of the year, with Ankhi Mukherjee

Medicine & Visual Culture Research Masterclass

Wednesday 8 February 2017

Join us for the next research masterclass in the series with Professor Ludmilla Jordanova

"Aedes aegypti": Old and New Sanitary Emergencies, Global Health Histories Seminar 100

Friday 2 December 2016

The 100th Global Health Histories seminar will be broadcast live over the internet from Brazil. This will include live translation from Portuguese into Spanish and English.

"Social biology and progressive politics in mid-twentieth-century Britain." The William Bynum Lecture 2016

Wednesday 30 November 2016

The annual William Bynum lectures find a new home in London, hosted by the History of Medicine Society. This lecture will draw on the research carried out by Dr Chris Renwick, of the University of York's Dep.t of History.

The Visual Politics of the WHO in Historical Perspective (1949-1974)

Wednesday 26 October 2016

Join us for this free public lecture on the visual politics of the World Health Organization

Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, evolution and fraud

Thursday 20 October 2016

The modern world is flooded with images, but only a few come to represent whole domains of knowledge. Among the most famous are drawings of embryos by the German Darwinist Ernst Haeckel in which humans and other vertebrates begin almost identical, then diverge toward their adult forms. But these icons of evolution are notorious, too: soon after their publication in 1868, a colleague alleged fraud, and Haeckel’s many enemies have repeated the charge ever since.

Challenging stereotypes of ‘Science’ and ‘Belief’: STEM as cultural identity in a pluralist world?

Thursday 13 October 2016

We have become accustomed to representations of ‘science’ as episodically being in a state of conflict with faith based worldviews. However, surprisingly very little research has been done to actually examine what public perceptions are about the relationship between these purportedly clashing world views. This lecture will explore the perceptions or prejudices that may affect individuals or institutions when approaching research, policy decision making, STEM communication or delivery of services.

Environment and Health: Global Health Histories Seminar 99

Friday 7 October 2016

We know that the environment affects our health and well-being. Yet, historical, cultural and socio-economic factors play an important role in terms of what facilitates or prevents the use of and access to landscapes and attractive green spaces as well as how the relationship between environment and health is perceived.

Across the borders: German-Brazilian Psychiatry between 1900 and 1930

Wednesday 5 October 2016

This research masterclass focuses on on the circulation of German-speaking psychiatric knowledge in early twentieth-century Brazil.

Global Health Ethics Seminar 6: Disease Surveillance for the SDGs – Balancing privacy with the need to know

Monday 3 October 2016

The sixth event in the Global Health Ethics series, this time exploring surveillance

Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past: International Workshop

Wednesday 14 September 2016

How do historians engage with communities and public policy outside of academic circles?

"You are how you eat" Food and Nutrition: Global Health Histories Seminar 98

Thursday 25 August 2016

"You are how you eat" Cultural contexts of health: Food and Nutrition.

Connections between race, racism and health inequities shaping Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil - Lunchtime Seminar

Tuesday 21 June 2016

Sickle cell disease is a severe genetic condition and a cause of high mortality rates all over the world. This presentation will discuss social inequality, race and health inequities with relation to Sickle Cell Disease.

Bioethics at the World Health Organization: Global Health Ethics Seminar

Thursday 16 June 2016

The fifth in the series and a parallel session at the International Association of Bioethics World Congress

Festival of Ideas: "Mental Health for All"

Saturday 11 June 2016

CGHH is honoured to support this upcoming Festival of Ideas talk, 'Mental Health for All.' The centre is very pleased that many other interesting events are happening- we will highlight relevant talks and exhibitions in public interest, so please look out for further information

Colonial Population and the Idea of Development - Research Masterclass

Thursday 2 June 2016

This talk traces the shift in population theory from the Malthusian framework that predominated in English-language political economic writings of the nineteenth century to demographic transition theory, which prevailed by the mid-twentieth century.

Leprosy: Global Health Histories Seminar 97

Friday 6 May 2016

The 97th event in the popular Global Health Histories Series, focusing on leprosy.

'Bioethics' - Global Health Ethics Seminar 4

Thursday 5 May 2016

The fourth event in the new Global Health Ethics series, focusing on Bioethics

Gender, the Bible, and the Spanish Monarchy (1600-1800)

Thursday 28 April 2016

Marianismo is a historical trope by which Latin females behave like pliant Virgins, suffering pain and sorrow engendered by patriarchy and subordination. This lecture will focus on a very different model of Marian behaviour which draws on Mary as the fulfilment of Israelite Old Testament female warriors, namely Deborah, Judith and Yael.

UK Premiere of '50 Years of Shame'

Thursday 21 April 2016

50 years ago, Thalidomide slipped into the lives of thousands of families. Grünenthal is the pharmaceutical company that created and sold the drug, responsible for a story that is still largely untold. This film explores that story.

Responsible Use of Antibiotics - A Question of Justice? Global Health Ethics Seminar 3

Tuesday 22 March 2016

Join the debate on why we should all care about antimicrobial resistance.

""Death of the King": Smallpox Vaccination and Diplomacy in Nepal in 1816" Masterclass

Wednesday 9 March 2016

In November 1816 the King of Nepal died from smallpox during an epidemic. It is not mentioned in any account that in the months leading up to the young king’s death the British Residency staff obtained a vaccine from India and offered vaccination to the government and people of Nepal.

'More than a feeling': the informed application of music in everyday and extraordinary wellbeing challenges.

Tuesday 8 March 2016

Victoria Williamson presents a free public lecture on the application of music to wellbeing challenges

"Not Everyone Can be a Gandhi": The Global Indian Medical Diaspora in the post-WWII Era

Thursday 3 March 2016

David Wright presents a free public lecture on the Global Indian Medical Diaspora

Ebola and Ethics - The Unfinished Agenda - Global Health Ethics Seminar 2

Tuesday 8 December 2015

The Global Health Ethics Seminars (GHES) provides a forum for leading ethicists, health care workers, policy makers and patients from across the world to come together and provide practical answers to the major moral and ethical questions that arise in public health.

Chikungunya: Global Health Histories Seminar 95

Thursday 3 December 2015

The ninth GHH seminar of the year, focussing on Chikungunya

Air Pollution: Global Health Histories Seminar 94

Friday 20 November 2015

The eighth GHH seminar of the year, focussing on air pollution

Cultural Contexts of Health: Migration. Global Health Histories Seminar 93

Thursday 12 November 2015

A GHH seminar from the WHO Regional Office for Europe focussing on migration.

Trial and Evolution: Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis in Britain, 1940-70

Thursday 22 October 2015

Clare Leeming-Latham presents a lecture based on her Bynum Prize-winning essay

Evidence Based Medicine & Health Policy: Global Health Histories Seminar 92

Thursday 15 October 2015

The seventh GHH seminar of the year, focussing on evidence based medicine and health policy

Beyond autonomy: Towards an ethical framework to support healthy ageing - Global Health Ethics Seminar 1

Tuesday 13 October 2015

The Global Health Ethics Unit in collaboration with the University of York and the Wellcome Trust is pleased to invite you to the inaugural webinar of the Global Health Ethics Seminar Series : “Beyond autonomy: Towards an ethical framework to support healthy ageing”.

Ebola: exploring the cultural contexts of an epidemic

Thursday 8 October 2015

A GHH seminar focusing on Ebola, held at the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

Eugenics as a Secular Religion

Thursday 1 October 2015

Dr Marius Turda presents a free evening public lecture

History of Medicine Workshop: The meanings of malaria eradication in Latin America during the Cold War

Tuesday 29 September 2015

Details of a wonderful opportunity - a research masterclass with Professor Marcos Cueto (Fiocruz, Brazil) taking place this 29th September.

History of Medicine Workshop: Physicians & Nationalism

Thursday 24 September 2015

The Department of History and The Centre for Global Health Histories present a free history of medicine workshop with Dr Hans Pols.

From Colonial Times to Independence: The Indonesian Medical Profession, 1900-1950

Tuesday 22 September 2015

Hans Pols presents a free public lecture on the Indonesian Medical Profession

Climate Change & Health: Global Health Histories Seminar 90

Thursday 17 September 2015

The fifth GHH seminar of the year, focussing on climate change and health

‘Getting to zero’: Ebola and the politics of disease elimination

Wednesday 24 June 2015

In this public lecture, Mark Honigsbaum discusses the historical origins of ‘getting to zero’

The decline of public sector vaccine production: Global Health Histories Seminar 89

Thursday 18 June 2015

The fourth GHH seminar of the year, focussing on vaccine production

World Hunger & the Healthy Animal: the veterinary solution to the post-war food crisis

Thursday 4 June 2015

Dr. Bresalier tells the story of how veterinary expertise and livestock animals became integral to the fight against world hunger after 1945.

Chemical and Biological Weapons: Global Health Histories Seminar 88

Thursday 21 May 2015

The third GHH seminar of the year, focussing on chemical and biological weapons

Faith based organizations and Universal health coverage- Part of the solution, part of the problem? Lessons learned from Nepal, HIV and Ebola

Monday 11 May 2015

A free, evening public lecture with Sally Smith, Adviser for Faith Based Organizations in UNAIDS

The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby

Wednesday 6 May 2015

Nick Hopwood presents the 2015 William Bynum Lecture

Universal Healthcare & Missionary Medicine: Global Health Histories Seminar 87

Thursday 23 April 2015

The second GHH seminar of the year, focussing on Universal Healthcare & Missionary Medicine

Nervousness and African Therapeutics in a Colonial Situation

Thursday 16 April 2015

An evening public lecture with Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Workshop - Suturing Time: Field, Objects, Fiction, and Other Techniques in Medical History

Wednesday 15 April 2015

A research workshop with Professor Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Traditional Medicine & Ayurveda: Global Health Histories Seminar 86

Thursday 19 March 2015

The first GHH seminar of the year, focussing on Traditional Medicine & Ayurveda

Globalization of medicine and public health: economic and social perspectives (1850-2000)

Thursday 12 March 2015

Held 12-13 March 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland. Venue: Building Amphimax, room 414, University of Lausanne

New Immortalities: Reflections on Post-Mortem Value in the Human Body in the 21st Century

Thursday 22 January 2015

Bob Simpson is a social anthropologist whose current research interests focus on Bioethics, Biomedicine and Biotechnologies in developing world contexts.

Antimicrobial Resistance and 20th Century Medicine

Wednesday 3 December 2014

Antimicrobial resistance is a complex challenge and a major global problem. This seminar will investigate historical situations in which current challenges relating to antibiotic resistance were shaped.

The Life of Breath: new directions in Medical Humanities

Wednesday 26 November 2014

The third of CGHH's autumn lectures, focussing on breathing and breathlessness

Civil registration: The anchor for Universal Health Care? - GHH Seminar 84

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Civil registration: The anchor for Universal Health Care?

How satisfied are you with your life these days? - Global Health Histories Seminar 83

Friday 7 November 2014

How satisfied are you with your life these days? 

The UK, NHS and Universal Health Coverage - GHH Seminar 82

Wednesday 22 October 2014

As we approach the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals with universal health coverage firmly on the agenda, what can we learn from the historical experience of one of the forerunners, the British NHS

"Questioning 'Global Mental Health': The uses and non-uses of evidence"

Wednesday 15 October 2014

The second in CGHH's Autumn lecture series, focusing on global mental health

Out of the reach of children? Adolescent health and medicine use in Africa

Wednesday 1 October 2014

CGHH's first Autumn public lecture, focussing on health and medicine use in Africa

Global Public Health, Social Media and Research: Opportunities and Ethical Challenges

Thursday 18 September 2014

The 81st Global Health Histories seminar, this month focussing on global health ethics.

Stories from the history of health and science: a sinuous tale composed against a backdrop of football and samba

Friday 18 July 2014

A public lecture on the history of health and science

Public Health in the Caribbean and Latin America: A past perspective

Friday 18 July 2014

University of York, 18-19 July 2014‌

Picturing Tropical Diseases (Exhibition)

Monday 14 July 2014

Selected Images from Diverse Histories - on display in Lisbon 14th July to 30th September.

South Africa: Primary Health Care as a harbinger of democracy - GHH Seminar 80

Wednesday 25 June 2014

South Africa: Primary Health Care as a harbinger of democracy - GHH Seminar 80

The Nature of Religion, Science and Health

Wednesday 18 June 2014

Has the relationship between religion and science always been one marked by conflict?

The Global Eradication of Smallpox

Tuesday 17 June 2014

Professor Manela considers what accounts for the success of Smallpox eradication among the many failures and disappointments of international development efforts during the postwar decades

Visions of Variola: Photographing smallpox eradication exhibition

Tuesday 17 June 2014

An exhibition of images detailing the global eradication of smallpox, one of the most important historical events of the post-war era.

Anatomising the Genome: Chromosomes and the Search for Disease

Thursday 29 May 2014

A public lecture on the role of genetic testing during the 1980s

Nepal: Primary Health Care, Universal Health Care and Foreign Aid - GHH Seminar 79

Wednesday 21 May 2014

79th GHH Seminar, on Primary Health Care, Universal Health Care and Foreign Aid in Nepal

‘Forced Pregnancy’, Access to Reproductive Rights and its Bio-Political Modalities

Tuesday 13 May 2014

A public lecture with Dr Nayanika Mookherjee

Workshop and Q&A with Professor Kalinga Tudor Silva

Monday 12 May 2014

An opportunity to meet with Prof Tudor Silva of the University of Peradeniya to exchange ideas, discuss links and more

Mexico: Uneven Development and Primary Health Care - GHH Seminar 77

Wednesday 23 April 2014

77th GHH seminar on Primary Health Care in Mexico

Sri Lanka – An example of model healthcare - Global Health Histories Seminar 76

Wednesday 12 March 2014

76th GHH seminar discussing Sri Lanka as an example of model healthcare

Pasteurian Medicine as Imperial Heroism

Wednesday 5 March 2014

The third in CGHH's 2014 public lectures series

The Origins of Primary Health Care – Global Health Histories Seminar 75

Wednesday 26 February 2014

First GHH seminar of the year, exploring the origins of Primary Health Care

Underserved and Overdosed? Muslims and the Pulse Polio Initiative in rural north India

Wednesday 19 February 2014

An evening lecture with Professor Patricia Jeffery