Centre for Global Health Histories
News from the Centre for Global Health Histories
Article Published in the British Journal of Surgery
Posted on Wednesday 6 October 2021
Prof Fay Bound Alberti and Dr Victoria Hoyle have published an article in the British Journal of Surgery with collaborative partners at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Invitation to Speak at the European Society for Organ Transplantation Congress
Posted on Wednesday 6 October 2021
CGHH Co-Director Prof Fay Bound Alberti was invited to present on the international history of face transplants at the August 2021 Congress of the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT) with a panel of medical experts.
CGHH Director quoted in Al Jazeera on vaccine hesitancy
Posted on Thursday 17 December 2020
CGHH Director Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya quoted in Al Jazeera on vaccine hesitancy
Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya invited to speak at Prince Mahidol Award Conference
Posted on Thursday 17 December 2020
Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya invited to speak at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference on “COVID-19: Advancing Towards an Equitable and Healthy World”.
CGHH blogpost on Vaccination
Posted on Thursday 29 October 2020
A new briefing from the Global Health Histories project (GHH) looks at vaccination campaigns
AboutFace Participates in the Being Human Festival
Posted on Friday 23 October 2020
AboutFace, led by CGHH co-director Fay Bound Alberti, will host four events during the Being Human Festival, the UK's national festival of the humanities.
CGHH blogpost on Polio eradication
Posted on Thursday 15 October 2020
A new briefing from the Global Health Histories project (GHH) looks at the history of polio eradication
Article published in The Conversation: The Legacy of Connie Culp
Posted on Thursday 1 October 2020
On December 9 2008, 45-year-old Connie Culp became the first person in the United States to receive a face transplant. Sadly, Connie died on July 29 2020. CGHH co-director Fay Bound Alberti and Victoria Hoyle, lecturer in the Department of History, reflected on her legacy in a recent article for The Conversation.
CGHH Co-Director co-ordinates Face Equality Week campaign
Posted on Friday 25 September 2020
Led by prominent charities Changing Faces and Face Equality International, Face Equality Week took place from 18-22 May, 2020.
Student update - Alexandra Bradbury
Posted on Wednesday 23 September 2020
Alexandra Bradbury has joined UCL’s Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care as a research programme manager.
CGHH blogpost on COVID-19 pandemic
Posted on Monday 14 September 2020
A new briefing from the Global Health Histories project (GHH) looks at the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of recent history.
CGHH represented at a workshop “Health History in Nigeria: The Way Forward”.
Posted on Thursday 10 September 2020
CGHH Director Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Dr Suranga Dolamulla will participate in the online workshop titled, 'Lessons from Global South(Medical History, Global Health History & Health policy)' on 11 September 2020
CGHH Co-Director speaks on the state of contemporary health
Posted on Wednesday 9 September 2020
CGHH co-director Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya participated in a webinar organised by O.P. Jindal Global University titled 'International and Global: State of Contemporary #health'
Event summary: 'Emotions and Ethics: the use and abuse of historical images'
Posted on Wednesday 9 September 2020
This successful event centered on the ethics and emotions associated with using historical images. It brought together an international audience and has generated significant engagement with subsequent blog posts and event videos on the AboutFace website.
CGHH blogpost on the elimination of Malaria
Posted on Tuesday 8 September 2020
A new briefing from the Global Health Histories (GHH) project draws on materials presented at seminars and webinars to look at different aspects of malaria control, and at how this can only be achieved through a combination of approaches.
Dr Margaret Jones publishes new Open Access monograph
Posted on Thursday 27 August 2020
STRIVING FOR EQUITY: HEALTHCARE IN SRI LANKA FROM INDEPENDENCE TO THE MILLENNIUM, 1948-2000
New CGHH blogpost on the eradication of Smallpox
Posted on Tuesday 11 August 2020
A new briefing from the Global Health Histories (GHH) project brings together material from three GHH three seminars on smallpox prevention, focusing on a diverse spread of national drives from the 1950s and onwards which were integral to the eventual success of the World Health Organization (WHO) Smallpox Eradication Programme.
Event report GHH 148: Can malaria be eradicated? The future of malaria control
Posted on Tuesday 21 July 2020
This seminar took place online earlier this month and brought together faculty from the University of York, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka. Speakers, all experts in malaria, offered their views on whether the eradication of the disease by 2050 was possible—a proposal made by the Lancet Commission on Malaria Eradication in 2019. The seminar formed part of WHO’s Culture and Health series in which academics and policymakers examine the historical and cultural contexts of global health issues.
Event report: Covid-19, the WHO, and International Society
Posted on Monday 20 July 2020
In June, Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya, the Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York, took part in a Harvard International and Global History Seminar. Professor of History Erez Manela, who co-chairs the seminars, moderated the panel, which also included: Heidi Tworek, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Nitsan Chorev, the Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Brown University, and Thomas Zimmer, Assistant Professor at the University of Freiburg.
Event reports GHH seminar 140 & 141: Decolonising Global Health & Global Health Futures
Posted on Tuesday 7 July 2020
This student-led conference at Duke University tackled the question of how to ensure global health scholars and practitioners do not perpetuate colonial structures, including exclusion, racism, unequal power dynamics, and exploitation of resources and people.
CGHH Co-Director Chairs Festival of Ideas Event with speaker Robin Dunbar (Oxford)
Posted on Tuesday 7 July 2020
As part of the York Festival of Ideas, which was held online this year, CGHH co-director Fay Bound Alberti chaired the event ‘Friendship: Nature’s Medicine,’ a talk given by Robin Dunbar of the University of Oxford.
Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya publishes a new article from 'Local Bases of Global Health' project
Posted on Sunday 5 July 2020
A new Open Access article from 'Local Bases of Global Health' project is now available.
Event Report GHH Seminar 144: COVID19: Inter-disciplinary approaches
Posted on Thursday 25 June 2020
This seminar, hosted at the University of York in early March, analysed the political, historical, and anthropological context of the current outbreak of COVID-19, with a particular focus on the Chinese response.
GHH 143: Mental Health and Inequalities
Posted on Thursday 25 June 2020
Within public health, mental health is a neglected area of research and policy, despite a high prevalence of a disease that disproportionately affects disadvantaged groups of people. The Centre for Global Health Histories invited speakers to discuss how we can address inequalities in mental health service and research.
Event Report, GHH 146: Health Diplomacy: The bases for international and global health
Posted on Thursday 25 June 2020
Health diplomacy links national, international and global health activities, as they are planned and implemented worldwide. It is of great importance at all levels of governance, as alliances of officials seek to mobilise disparate stakeholders needed to counter all major public health challenges and emergencies (including non-state actors).
Event Report- GHH seminar 145: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and technological challenges
Posted on Thursday 25 June 2020
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most alarming global health challenges that countries face today. The 145th Global Health Histories seminar held in Colombo on 6 March 2020 focused on the AMR problem in Sri Lanka. It highlighted the timely need for historiographical mapping, analysis of multidimensional approaches to tackling AMR, and the translation of scientific knowledge into technological solutions.
CGHH Director speaks on BBC Ideas: eradication of smallpox
Posted on Friday 12 June 2020
"You just had to look at a smallpox sufferer to be horrified," says Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya.
CGHH Director Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya speaks on COVID-19
Posted on Thursday 28 May 2020
The first webinar of the inaugural CES Insights webinar series focused on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr Fay Bound Alberti has been in the Media for her work on Loneliness
Posted on Wednesday 6 May 2020
Following the publication of 'A Biography of Loneliness,' Dr Fay Bound Alberti has written articles and been interviewed about loneliness during the global pandemic.
Dr Fay Bound Alberti writes on Community during the Pandemic
Posted on Thursday 30 April 2020
CGHH Co-Director Dr Fay Bound Alberti in The Conversation talked about the global meanings of community during the pandemic - and whether these might be here to stay.
Prof Madhukar Pai (McGill University) writes on Global Health.
Posted on Thursday 9 April 2020
Prof Madhukar Pai (McGill University) writes on Global Health in the post-pandemic world.
Report co-authored by York academic helps develop WHO guidelines for COVID-19
Posted on Tuesday 31 March 2020
The WHO's new ethical guidelines for research on COVID-19 have been developed using a report co-authored by Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya.
Event report GHH seminar 142: Complementary and Alternative Medicines in the "Biomedical World"
Posted on Monday 30 March 2020
The Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York hosted a seminar on the challenges of integrating complementary and alternative medicines into standard health services.
Dr Namrata R. Ganneri wins Rockefeller Archive Centre’s Research Grant
Posted on Tuesday 18 February 2020
CGHH congratulates Dr Namrata Ganneri on her Rockefeller Grant Success.
CGHH represented at the HRC 10th anniversary celebrations
Posted on Monday 10 February 2020
Our Commonwealth-Rutherford Fellow, Dr Namrata R. Ganneri, participated in the University of York based Humanities Research Centre’s tenth-anniversary celebrations held on 18 October 2019.
History demonstrates need for urgent action to ensure ethical research in global health emergencies
Posted on Monday 10 February 2020
Experts are calling for urgent action to ensure research undertaken in global health emergencies is carried out ethically.
Conversation UK piece - Memoirs of women participants of the Indian Smallpox Eradication Programme
Posted on Tuesday 28 January 2020
Our Commonwealth – Rutherford Fellow Namrata R Ganneri recently published a short piece in the UK Conversation, “These memoirs show us the role women had in eradicating smallpox from India”,
Event Report - Children and Research GHH #139
Posted on Thursday 23 January 2020
The Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York held its first seminar of the year on Children and Research.
Smallpox Eradication 40 years on: An alternative commemoration
Posted on Tuesday 7 January 2020
Centre Director Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya is speaking at the Duke University, USA on 30 January
Event Report - 200 million lives saved: Smallpox eradication 40 years on
Posted on Monday 9 December 2019
In November 2019, the Centre for Global Health Histories commemorated the 40-year anniversary of the global eradication of smallpox. The seminar was one of nine that the World Health Organisation's Regional Office for Europe, the University of York, and the University of Exeter ran as part of a Culture and Health webinar series.
Event Report - Private Sector Engagement in the Health Sector in India
Posted on Friday 22 November 2019
This Global Health Histories seminar took place last month at Brookings India (New Delhi), where speakers gathered to discuss how the public and private health sectors might collaborate to meet India’s health needs.
CGHH welcomes Ayotunde Ojo
Posted on Tuesday 29 October 2019
Ayotunde Ojo joins the Centre for Global Health Histories as a PhD candidate on a Wellcome Trust studentship.
CGHH welcomes Leandro Viegas
Posted on Thursday 26 September 2019
CGHH welcomes Leandro Viegas
EAHMH success for the Global Health Histories book series
Posted on Friday 30 August 2019
'Polio Across the Iron Curtain' wins top award
WHO Collaborating Centre Welcomes Dr Natalie Cook
Posted on Friday 30 August 2019
UK National Health Service expert to undertake social media outreach and research
CGHH at the ‘Sense and Nonsense’ Conference
Posted on Monday 12 August 2019
Dr Namrata Ganneri and Mr Arnab Chakraborty will present their research at the EAHMH conference later this month
CGHH Co-director Announcement - Fay Bound Alberti
Posted on Monday 29 July 2019
Dr Fay Bound Alberti has been appointed a co-director of CGHH and will lead on Global Public Engagement.
GHH 128 - Recording now Available
Posted on Wednesday 10 July 2019
Catch up with the first GHH seminar held at Keio University, Japan
Co-director Announcement
Posted on Tuesday 9 July 2019
Dr João Nunes appointed co-director of the Centre for Global Health Histories. The WHO has also appointed João the Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories
Examining popular representations of India’s national smallpox eradication campaign
Posted on Tuesday 9 July 2019
CGHH represented at the 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History by Namrata Ganneri
Summer Update from Arnab Chakraborty
Posted on Friday 21 June 2019
A report on a busy term for CGHH PhD student Arnab Chakraborty
How important is the smallpox eradication story today?
Posted on Tuesday 18 June 2019
The smallpox eradication story offers important lessons for ongoing disease eradication efforts
Fifth expert group meeting on cultural contexts of health and well-being
Posted on Monday 17 June 2019
Fifth meeting will take place at WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark
Global Health Histories, Humanities and the Profitabilities of Culturing Transparency and Empowerment
Posted on Monday 17 June 2019
Sanjoy Bhattacharya to give keynote lecture at (Post)colonial Health: Global Perspectives on the Medical Humanities conference
Collaboration and Competition: Medical Practitioners in Colonial South India
Posted on Monday 17 June 2019
CGHH PhD student Arnab Chakraborty’s research featured on The Polyphony
Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science, and Imperialism
Posted on Monday 10 June 2019
CGHH well-represented at May’s interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Edinburgh
Winner Announcement - William Bynum Essay Prize 2018
Posted on Wednesday 5 June 2019
‘Noli me tangere: The Dangers of Skin-to-skin Contact in Eighteenth-century London’ awarded the 2018 William Bynum Essay Prize
Book Launch Update: ‘The World Health Organization: A History’
Posted on Tuesday 21 May 2019
The publication of ‘The World Health Organization: A History’ will be marked by a side event at the Seventy-Second World Health Assembly in Geneva
Event Report - The Creation & Expansion of the Worldwide Smallpox Eradication Programme
Posted on Tuesday 9 April 2019
This installment of the GHH series focussed on the smallpox control programmes operating in the 1950s and 1960s, in China, Nepal, Brazil and India.
Smallpox Eradication: Inclusive Histories as Meaningful Roadmaps for Global Health
Posted on Thursday 4 April 2019
Brookings India’s next development seminar will feature Sanjoy Bhattacharya's research on smallpox eradication
Event Report - History, Culture and Global Health Sustainability
Posted on Friday 22 March 2019
The recording of GHH 120, the first such event to be held at Hughes Hall, is now available via the CGHH YouTube page
Event Report - Air pollution: Local contexts, universal effects
Posted on Wednesday 13 March 2019
A report on 6 March's GHH seminar on this pressing health topic
Primary Health Care & Immunization Programme Implementation: History of Health in Zimbabwe
Posted on Wednesday 20 February 2019
This major-one day symposium will draw together different disciplinary perspectives and backgrounds to explore the history of primary health care and immunization in Zimbabwe.
Celebrating the continued success of our MA students
Posted on Wednesday 20 February 2019
Carlos D´Ávila Pereira Campani’s dissertation won the Dissertation Prize for the MA in Medical History & Humanities for 2017/18
Health for All at 40 – Seminar Report
Posted on Monday 4 February 2019
Joao Nunes and Alex Medcalf reflect upon the trajectory of 'Health for All' forty years after Alma-Ata, at a time when the SDG agenda and the WHO leadership are pushing towards reenergizing the idea of universal health care.
Recording now available - Global Health Histories Seminar 116: Antimicrobial Resistance
Posted on Monday 4 February 2019
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a global health threat affecting all nations. Catch up with the discussions and debates at this GHH seminar via YouTube
Report – Global Health Histories Seminar 115: Public Information
Posted on Wednesday 30 January 2019
The 115th Global Health Histories seminar tackled the historic and present day challenges of public information and communication on health matters.
Culture and Health Webinar Calendar 2019 Launched
Posted on Monday 28 January 2019
New webinars in the WHO Culture and Health series announced
CGHH Associate attends 4th expert meeting on Health 2020 monitoring and reporting
Posted on Thursday 20 December 2018
Dr Victoria Turner acted as a rapporteur at high-level, international meeting
Dr Ayesha Nathoo delivers 2018 Bynum Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine
Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2018
Dr Nathoo captivated the audience with her earlier research on the cultural history of early heart transplantation
Global Health Histories Seminar 113: recording now available
Posted on Tuesday 4 December 2018
Catch up with the presentations and discussions at the 113th seminar on ‘Immunization for Universal Health Coverage’
Sanjoy Bhattacharya reappointed to Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Panel of Advisors
Posted on Tuesday 27 November 2018
Sanjoy Bhattacharya will continue as an academic advisor for a further three years.
CGHH at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care – an update from Dr Namrata Ganneri
Posted on Friday 9 November 2018
A report on Namrata Ganneri's recent visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan
UN City Culture Night – Showcasing Global Health Histories
Posted on Friday 9 November 2018
Reporting on CGHH's involvement in the recent UN City Culture Night
Exploring The Global History of Primary Health Care
Posted on Wednesday 24 October 2018
CGHH's Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Ben Walker discuss their research at the International conference on Global History of Primary Health Care
World Polio Day Celebrates History in the Making
Posted on Wednesday 24 October 2018
24 October, World Polio Day, celebrates progress against the disease
The Birth of Primary Health Care: Celebrating 40 Years of the Declaration of Alma-Ata
Posted on Tuesday 23 October 2018
News of a special Global Health Histories event to be held at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care
Can History Make Us Healthy?
Posted on Tuesday 16 October 2018
Sanjoy Bhattacharya will deliver a talk as part of the BBC History Magazine's History Weekend
CGHH welcomes Kaisa Harju
Posted on Wednesday 3 October 2018
Kaisa Harju joins as a Visiting Scholar until December 2018
Celebrating the Success of Our MA Students
Posted on Tuesday 2 October 2018
We are delighted to share the success of two recent postgraduates of York’s Department of History, who have both succeeded in obtaining funding to pursue PhD research.
Winner Announcement - William Bynum Essay Prize 2017
Posted on Thursday 27 September 2018
‘Photograph as Skin, Skin as Wax: Indexicality and the Visualization of Syphilis in Fin-de-Siècle France' awarded the 2017 William Bynum Essay Prize
New Open Access Article: Visualising Primary Health Care
Posted on Tuesday 11 September 2018
Read Alexander Medcalf and João Nunes’ latest article in Medical History
Masters Programme Awards Success
Posted on Tuesday 4 September 2018
York’s MA in Medical History and Humanities receives Wellcome Trust Award
Secondment Success
Posted on Tuesday 28 August 2018
Sarah Hartley awarded fellowship to work at the WHO Regional Office for Europe
The Sun: Living With Our Star
Posted on Tuesday 21 August 2018
Over the past year CGHH’s Sanjoy Bhattacharya has been involved in a new Science Museum exhibition about the Sun.
Improving Health Quality by Enhancing Health Communication
Posted on Tuesday 7 August 2018
The 109th Global Health Histories seminar to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the important subject of enhancing health communication
First Titles in the Global Health Histories Monograph Series
Posted on Tuesday 24 July 2018
Read more about the newest publications in the Global Health Histories series
Seminar report: Vaccine Hesitancy – why do some people not vaccinate?
Posted on Monday 9 July 2018
Read a report and access the recording from the 107th Global Health Histories seminar on vaccine hesitancy
CGHH PhD Student update – Arnab Chakraborty
Posted on Tuesday 3 July 2018
A report on recent research and upcoming conference activity
CGHH at the 2018 World Health Assembly
Posted on Monday 25 June 2018
The Centre was once again represented at the World Health Assembly, where research on the history of community health workers was showcased.
Update from the New Perspectives in South Asian History series
Posted on Monday 25 June 2018
New Marathi translation of ‘India’s First Democratic Revolution’
Sanjoy Bhattacharya Lectures in Shanghai
Posted on Monday 11 June 2018
Director of CGHH Sanjoy Bhattacharya delivers two lectures at Shanghai University.
An Update on Nanyang Technological University-University of York Links
Posted on Monday 14 May 2018
Professor Bhattacharya appointed a Visiting Professor by Nanyang Technological University
CGHH Hosts Sri Lankan Ministry of Health Official
Posted on Monday 30 April 2018
A report on Dr Lakshmi C. Somatunga’s official visit to the University of York for Global Health Histories seminar 104.
Fourth expert group meeting on cultural contexts of health and well-being
Posted on Friday 27 April 2018
A report on Sanjoy Bhattacharya’s attendance at a recent WHO Expert Committee meeting
Global Health Security & the Digital Health Society 2030
Posted on Monday 23 April 2018
A report by Dr Suranga Dolamulla, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Health Histories
NGOs, Scientific Associations and International Health Cooperation during the 20th Century
Posted on Friday 13 April 2018
A conference update from CGHH PhD student Ben Walker
CGHH Welcomes Commonwealth Rutherford Fellow
Posted on Tuesday 27 March 2018
CGHH welcomes Dr Namrata Ganneri
Research Fellow in Future Health Joins CGHH
Posted on Friday 2 March 2018
The Centre for Global Health Histories welcomes Dr Rebecca Wright
'Mental Health: Pasts, Current Trends and Futures' cited in Lancet publication
Posted on Friday 23 February 2018
An update about how the recent CGHH/C2D2 publication is being received.
CGHH Welcomes Visiting Scholar
Posted on Thursday 22 February 2018
Deika Mohamed has been awarded the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement
Update on CGHH links with FIOCRUZ
Posted on Wednesday 21 February 2018
News on a recent invitation for Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya
New Open Access Article: Between art and information: communicating world health, 1948–70
Posted on Tuesday 20 February 2018
Read Alexander Medcalf’s latest article in the Journal of Global History
CGHH Director's Events in Singapore
Posted on Tuesday 13 February 2018
Sanjoy Bhattacharya will deliver public lectures and participate in a roundtable at Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore
New Open Access Article: Traditional Medicine and Primary Health Care in Sri Lanka: Policy, Perceptions, and Practice
Posted on Monday 12 February 2018
Read Margaret Jones' latest co-authored article in Asian Review of World Histories.
History matters: New Video Lecture from CGHH Director
Posted on Tuesday 6 February 2018
Sanjoy Bhattacharya’s lecture on smallpox eradication now available online.
Exploring digitized resources in a better way: workshop at the British Library
Posted on Tuesday 30 January 2018
PhD Student Arnab Chakraborty reports on a recent British Library workshop
Nuffield Council on Bioethics announces membership of research in global health emergencies working group
Posted on Friday 26 January 2018
CGHH's Sanjoy Bhattacharya joins global health emergencies working group
Christian Missions in Global History
Posted on Friday 26 January 2018
Ben Walker presents at Institute of Historical Research seminar series
CGHH PhD Student update – Ben Walker
Posted on Wednesday 17 January 2018
A report on recent and upcoming conference activity
CGHH Director joins Panel of Advisors for the External Advisory Board of CIUHCT Lisbon, Portugal
Posted on Monday 15 January 2018
News on a recent invitation for Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya
New Publication from CGHH’s Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Posted on Friday 12 January 2018
News of a new chapter ‘Global and local histories of medicine: interpretative challenges and future possibilities’ out soon
Deprivation of liberty and the right to health
Posted on Monday 18 December 2017
Sanjoy Bhattacharya invited to provide expert consultation and commentary on the right to health & deprivation of liberty
Journal Watch
Posted on Tuesday 12 December 2017
Keeping track of coverage of CGHH articles and papers
Considering the ethical aspects of research in global health emergencies
Posted on Tuesday 28 November 2017
Sanjoy Bhattacharya joins working group examining the ethical challenges of conducting research in global health emergencies
Trust in Global Health Workshop
Posted on Monday 27 November 2017
Join us for an interdisciplinary workshop on Trust in Global Health on 1st December
High level Sri Lankan visit to the Centre for Global Health Histories and University of York
Posted on Friday 24 November 2017
A report on Her Excellency Amari Wijewardane's recent official visit to the University of York
World Health Organization Renews CGHH as an Official Collaborating Centre
Posted on Monday 20 November 2017
York's Centre for Global Health Histories will operate as an official collaborating centre for a further four years
The environmental drivers of antimicrobial resistance in Sri Lanka
Posted on Friday 10 November 2017
News on CGHH involvement in an upcoming meeting and workshop on antimicrobial resistance
The Importance of Defeating Antimicrobial Resistance
Posted on Friday 27 October 2017
The Island covers latest Global Health Histories seminar on AMR
Exploring novel approaches to tackling antimicrobial resistance
Posted on Tuesday 24 October 2017
Suranga Dolamulla selected to attend international workshop
New Publication - Mental Health: Pasts, Current Trends and Futures
Posted on Friday 6 October 2017
'Mental Health: Pasts, Current Trends and Futures', available now, is the latest in a series of CGHH engagement publications.
Strengthening Universal Health Coverage for the fight against Anti-Microbial Resistance
Posted on Tuesday 3 October 2017
Recordings now available for the 102nd instalment of the popular Global Health Histories series
'Strengthening and Widening Health Management' Training Seminar
Posted on Thursday 14 September 2017
A report on Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya's training seminar in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
CGHH Director featured in Devex article on polio eradication
Posted on Wednesday 30 August 2017
Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Director of CGHH, has been featured in an online news article on polio eradication
Inspiring Communities in Global Health: Workshop Report
Posted on Tuesday 11 July 2017
A report on the interdisciplinary workshop held at the Wellcome Collection, London, 12 June 2017
CGHH Director's 2016 public lecture available to view on YouTube
Posted on Tuesday 4 July 2017
Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya's 2016 presentation at the Universidad de Miguel Hernandez de Elche in Spain is now available to view on YouTube
And the Winner Is… William Bynum Essay Prize 2016
Posted on Thursday 29 June 2017
‘Diagnosing the Kaiser: Psychiatry, Wilhelm II and the question of German war guilt’ awarded the 2016 William Bynum Essay Prize
Politics and Health at the WHO Regional Office for South East Asia: The Case of Portuguese India, 1949–61
Posted on Wednesday 28 June 2017
Monica Saavedra's latest research article is out now in Medical History
CGHH Director wins teaching award
Posted on Wednesday 21 June 2017
Prof Sanjoy Bhattacharya has won the ‘Promoting Liberation & Inclusivity’ category in York University’s 2017 Excellence Awards.
Made to measure: Data in the movement for primary health care
Posted on Thursday 15 June 2017
In the run up to the 101st Global Health Histories seminar ‘A world that counts?' Contexts of health: Information for Health, we're considering the data issues present in our work on the 'Local Bases of Global Health’ project. What was the role of data in the global movement for Primary Health Care (PHC); who was responsible for data collection; and how was data used? Dr Alexander Medcalf considers such issues below.
Vital Statistics: The problem of exploring the burden of Non-communicable Disease (NCDs) in Sri Lanka, 1950-2000
Posted on Tuesday 13 June 2017
In the run up to Global Health Histories Seminar 101: 'A world that counts?' Contexts of health: Information for Health’ we are taking a look at the health data issues present in the work of our colleagues on the ‘Local Bases of Global Health’ project. We asked Dr Margaret Jones, a research fellow at CGHH, to reflect on her work on Sri Lanka.
Inspiring communities in global health: Community Health Workers and Universal Health Coverage
Posted on Wednesday 31 May 2017
We are delighted to announce details of an upcoming interdisciplinary workshop reflecting on the role of community health workers
York MA student awarded Wellcome Trust studentship
Posted on Tuesday 16 May 2017
Lu Chen has been awarded Wellcome Trust’s prestigious Medical Humanities PhD studentship for her smallpox project
CGHH Director joins advisory panel on Science Museum’s exhibition on the Sun
Posted on Thursday 11 May 2017
Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya has accepted an invitation to become a member of the advisory panel on the Science Museum’s major 5-year exhibition on the Sun
Five Lessons from the Archives of the History of Medicine in Ghana
Posted on Friday 5 May 2017
CGHH PhD student Ben Walker recounts his archival fieldwork in Ghana, with tips for researchers
How Brazil Manages Major Healthcare Challenges
Posted on Tuesday 2 May 2017
Dr João Nunes and Dr Alexander Medcalf are exploring the importance of Brazil's Community Health Workers as part of a Wellcome Trust Seed Award project
Interweaving Ideas and Patchwork programmes: Nutrition Projects in Colonial Fiji, 1945-60– New Open Access Article
Posted on Tuesday 21 March 2017
Read CGHH PhD student Sarah Hartley's recent article in Medical History
Dr Tara Alberts takes over as Book Reviews Editor on CUP's 'Medical History' journal
Posted on Wednesday 1 March 2017
Dr Tara Alberts, Lecturer in Early Modern History at York and CGHH associate has now taken over as Book Reviews Editor on CUP’s ‘Medical History’ journal
CGHH intern at WHO HQ reports on her recent activity
Posted on Thursday 16 February 2017
Sara Birch-Ares, a former student of the University of York affiliated with the Centre for Global Health Histories, reports on her recent activity as an intern at WHO HQ in Geneva.
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal Feature Monica Saavedra’s research
Posted on Monday 13 February 2017
Monica Saavedra interviewed for for RTP’s 'Hora dos Portugueses' programme
Arnab Chakraborty, CGHH PhD student, wins $4000 Rockefeller Grant
Posted on Wednesday 8 February 2017
CGHH congratulates Arnab Chakrabarty on his Rockefeller Grant Success.
CGHH welcomes Dr. Suranga Dolamulla on his Wellcome Trust Research Award
Posted on Thursday 2 February 2017
Sri Lanka's Director of Tertiary Care granted prestigious Wellcome Trust Research Award
Happy New Year from CGHH!
Posted on Wednesday 18 January 2017
The Centre for Global Health Histories looks back on a successful year, and forward to a busy 2017.
2016 William Bynum Lecture now available to watch online
Posted on Thursday 22 December 2016
The 2016 William Bynum Lecture, delivered by Dr. Chris Renwick in November, has been made available to watch online by the Royal Society of Medicine.
Celebrating Five Years of ‘Medical History’ at the University of York
Posted on Tuesday 13 December 2016
The Centre for Global Health Histories looks back over five years of support from the Wellcome Trust and Cambridge University Press, as the open access journal ‘Medical History’ continues to flourish.
CGHH Director joins the 'Journal of the Social History of Medicine and Health' Editorial Board
Posted on Tuesday 6 December 2016
Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya reports that he has accepted a position on the editorial board of the new 'Journal of the Social History of Medicine and Health.'
Turn of The Century: A Report on the upcoming 100th WHO Global Health Histories Seminar
Posted on Tuesday 15 November 2016
As the WHO Global Health Histories seminar series reaches its 100th event this December, we look back on its birth, growth and widening internationalisation.
‘Question Time: Electing the Next Director-General of the World Health Organization’ - Report
Posted on Friday 4 November 2016
York’s Centre for Global Health Histories takes part in an event to hear from the six candidates vying to become the next WHO Director-General.
CGHH PhD student Sarah Hartley invited to attend UN & FCO Careers Event
Posted on Wednesday 2 November 2016
CGHH can report that PhD student Sarah Hartley recently accepted one of four lucrative invitations to the University of York to attend a special careers event hosted by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the UN, and related UN agencies including the WHO.
Reporting on the New Perspectives on South Asian History series
Posted on Tuesday 25 October 2016
Announcing two upcoming launch events for Dr. Niels Brimnes’ NPSAH book "Languished Hopes: Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in Twentieth-Century India."
Tuberculosis Control in Sri Lanka, 1948–1990 - New Open Access Article
Posted on Tuesday 18 October 2016
Read Dr Margaret Jones' latest article in Medical History
CGHH PhD Student Sarah Hartley presents at two international conferences.
Posted on Tuesday 20 September 2016
Sarah Hartley, a PhD student at the Centre for Global Health Histories, has recently presented at two international conferences in September, related to her current research.
CUP ‘Medical History’ Journal launches a new website.
Posted on Wednesday 14 September 2016
Medical History has launched a new website. This new online home has been designed with a new look and easy to access interface.
New University of York publication "Expertise and Application: Biomedical and Health Research at York" released.
Posted on Thursday 8 September 2016
This new publication highlights the many different areas and disciplines within the University of York's research community, related to biomedical and health research.
CGHH Student Ben Walker to speak at two international conferences
Posted on Thursday 1 September 2016
CGHH Student Ben Walker will speak at two international conferences in September 2016.
CGHH Director featured in an article for the Telegraph India
Posted on Thursday 25 August 2016
Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories, has been featured in an article about Donald. A Henderson, a leading figure in the eradication of Smallpox.
Dr. Kath Weston: Visiting Scholar at CGHH
Posted on Thursday 30 June 2016
The Centre for Global Health Histories is pleased to share information about a recent visit by Public Health professional Dr. Kath Weston, and her current research.
Winner Announced - William Bynum Essay Prize 2015
Posted on Wednesday 29 June 2016
Lori Jones of the University of Ottawa takes 2015's prize for her entry ‘When Medical Texts Double as Socio-Political Commentary: Exploring Some Other Contexts and Purposes of English Plague Treatises’.
Report: World-Wide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) Health Histories Seminar
Posted on Tuesday 28 June 2016
CGHH presents a report on a recent Health Histories Witness Seminar hosted by WWARN, on 23 June 2016.
Sarah Hartley, CGHH PhD student, to speak at BSHS Conference.
Posted on Wednesday 15 June 2016
Sarah Hartley, PhD student at the Centre for Global Health Histories, has been selected to present a paper at a forthcoming BSHS conference.
Reporting on the York Centre for the Americas "Situating the Americas after Global History" Study Day.
Posted on Tuesday 7 June 2016
CGHH are delighted to share information about a recent study day hosted by our University of York colleagues at the York Centre for the Americas.
New PAHO Publications on Ethics and Zika
Posted on Tuesday 7 June 2016
New publications on Ethics and Zika have been made available by PAHO (WHO).
CGHH Report on Fiocruz Events
Posted on Wednesday 18 May 2016
CGHH is delighted to report new developments arising from the recent GHH and GHES seminars held at Fiocruz in Brazil, in conjunction with the WHO.
Monica Saavedra, CGHH Research Fellow, wins grant from Fundação Oriente
Posted on Wednesday 11 May 2016
Dr. Monica Saavedra, a Wellcome Trust-funded Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Health Histories, in the Department of History at the University of York, has been awarded a research grant from the Fundação Oriente.
WHO and CGHH to hold the Global Health Histories seminar series in the Americas in partnership with Fiocruz
Posted on Wednesday 11 May 2016
After recently hosting the 97th Global Health Histories Seminar, it has been announced that the WHO and CGHH will work with Fiocruz to host further seminars in the Americas.
WHO Zika information resources available online
Posted on Tuesday 3 May 2016
To help you stay informed about Zika, the Risk Communication and Community Engagement specialists at the World Health Organisation have put together information resources about the Zika virus.
Announcing upcoming GHES and GHH seminars with colleagues and WHO partners in FIOCRUZ, Brazil.
Posted on Thursday 28 April 2016
The Centre for Global Health Histories is delighted to announce two upcoming seminars from the GHES and GHH series to be held by colleagues and WHO partners in Fiocruz, Brazil.
An update on CGHH Research Associate Dr Susan Heydon
Posted on Thursday 17 March 2016
CGHH associate Dr Susan Heydon (School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, New Zealand) has been recently featured in 'He Kitenga' for her work in global health.
Announcing the first WHO Global Health Histories Seminar with a WHO Country Office
Posted on Thursday 17 March 2016
CGHH are delighted to announce the forthcoming 96th WHO Global Health Histories Seminar, to be held in conjunction with the WHO Country Office in Sri Lanka, and in collaboration with the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka (CCPSL), on Wednesday 23 March 2016 in Colombo. This exciting event focuses on the Sri Lankan path to Universal Health Care and its implications for the Sustainable Development Goals. This will be the first country-based GHH seminar.
CGHH PhD Candidate involved in important UK Parliamentary Policy Report Launch
Posted on Wednesday 9 March 2016
Wellcome Trust-Funded CGHH Doctoral Candidate Ben Walker has been involved in an important UK Parliamentary Policy Report Launch: "Principal lessons learned from communities affected by the Ebola epidemic in preparedness for future health crises."
Leprosy: A Short History
Posted on Thursday 18 February 2016
The Centre for Global Health Histories’ latest title 'Leprosy: A Short History' (by Orient BlackSwan) has been released.
Sarah Hartley, CGHH PhD Student, wins $4000 Rockefeller Grant
Posted on Wednesday 10 February 2016
Sarah Hartley has been recently awarded a grant worth $4000 from the Rockefeller Archive Centre.
2015 and 2016 at the Centre for Global Health Histories
Posted on Tuesday 12 January 2016
The Centre for Global Health Histories looks back on a successful year, and forward to a busy 2016.
New Release in the New Perspectives on South Asian History series
Posted on Tuesday 12 January 2016
‘Nursing and Empire:’ An exciting new addition to the NPSAH series is due to be released
CGHH Director joins Panel of Advisors for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
Posted on Tuesday 12 January 2016
An update on the CGHH Director’s recent external activity.
New Wellcome Trust Research Funding Opportunities
Posted on Wednesday 6 January 2016
Details of a new research funding scheme have been released by Wellcome Trust, aimed at granting research awards to Health Professionals seeking to carry out humanities or social science research into any area of human or animal health.
2015 WHO Global Health Histories Events Now Available Online
Posted on Wednesday 9 December 2015
Catch up with the popular annual seminars featuring a wide-ranging programme focussing on important topics in global health.
Wellcome Trust Seed Award Success
Posted on Tuesday 10 November 2015
Dr João Nunes (Department of Politics) and Dr Alexander Medcalf (Department of History/Centre for Global Health Histories) have succeeded in obtaining Wellcome Trust Seed Funding for their interdisciplinary project ‘Community health workers in Brazil and the global movement for universal health coverage’.
Calls for Papers: Public Health and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean
Posted on Wednesday 21 October 2015
This three day conference is designed to explore the complex relationship between public health and Latin American and Caribbean societies from the colonial to the present era.
CGHH Director joins Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Expert Review Group
Posted on Wednesday 23 September 2015
An update on the CGHH Director's most recent external activity
Introducing Global Health Ethics Seminars
Posted on Wednesday 9 September 2015
Introducing the ‘Global Health Ethics Seminars (GHES); to be held at the WHO HQ in Geneva, selected WHO Regional and Country Offices, and broadcast live online.
2nd Luso-Brazilian Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine
Posted on Wednesday 12 August 2015
Information on the upcoming Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine, organized by the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology and the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the New University of Lisbon, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) and the Centre for Global Health Histories.
Research Project Update: Primary Health Care in Sri Lanka
Posted on Thursday 6 August 2015
An update from the Centre’s Dr Margaret Jones on her research on the 'Local Bases of Global Health' project
Report - Tropical Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: a historical perspective
Posted on Friday 24 July 2015
A report on the high-profile, international workshop ‘Tropical Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: a historical perspective’ held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CGHH to Welcome New Guest Researcher
Posted on Monday 20 July 2015
Dr Karine Aasgaard Jansen (Umeå University) will be joining the Department of History this autumn
Skill in the History of Medicine and Science
Posted on Monday 20 July 2015
A new special issue of Medical History is out now, guest edited by Nicholas Whitfield and Thomas Schlich.
A successful year for the Department of History
Posted on Thursday 16 July 2015
York's Department of History can look back on a number of splendid achievements throughout 2014/15
CGHH welcomes new PhD Student
Posted on Tuesday 7 July 2015
Ben Walker will soon commence research on Smallpox control and eradication in Ghana
CGHH Associate's Research Masterclass
Posted on Monday 29 June 2015
Dr Henrice Altink is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to deliver a research masterclass
Ebola and the politics of disease elimination: recording now available
Posted on Monday 29 June 2015
Listen to Mark Honigsbaum's talk - ‘Getting to zero’: Ebola and the politics of disease elimination - recorded live in York on Wednesday 24 June 2015
CGHH at the Festival of Ideas
Posted on Friday 5 June 2015
A splendid array of talks and events coming up as part of the 2015 York Festival of Ideas
Health for All: The Journey to Universal Health Coverage - new book from CGHH
Posted on Friday 5 June 2015
‘Health for All: The Journey to Universal Health Coverage’, based on the 2014 World Health Organization Global Health Histories seminar series, has now been published
World Health Assembly Special Event: The Journey to UHC
Posted on Friday 5 June 2015
Report on an afternoon of creative and productive discussions exploring the successes, challenges and future possibilities on the road to health for all.
Interrogating Categories: The Historiography of ‘International’ and ‘Global’ Health
Posted on Monday 20 April 2015
Recording now available of Prof Bhattacharya's Sheffield Lecture
TB And Its Challenges: Perspectives on Resurgence, Control and Research
Posted on Friday 13 March 2015
Report on a creative and productive day exploring the many challenges presented by tuberculosis now and in the past
Globalization of medicine and public health: economic and social perspectives (1850-2000)
Posted on Wednesday 4 March 2015
An international conference featuring a truly splendid lineup in Lausanne, Switzerland
TB And Its Challenges: Perspectives on Resurgence, Control and Research
Posted on Tuesday 17 February 2015
A one day workshop on the many challenges presented by tuberculosis now and in the past
Global Health Histories Seminars: 2015’s series unveiled
Posted on Friday 13 February 2015
The popular annual seminars return for 2015 with a wide-ranging programme focussing on important topics in global health.
We have a Winner! – The 2014 William Bynum Prize essay competition
Posted on Tuesday 10 February 2015
Clare Leeming-Latham wins the 2014 William Bynum Prize for her paper ‘Unravelling the ‘tangled web’: Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis in Britain, 1940-1970’.