News from the Centre for Global Health Histories
Posted on Monday 17 June 2019
Fifth meeting will take place at WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark
Posted on Monday 17 June 2019
Sanjoy Bhattacharya to give keynote lecture at (Post)colonial Health: Global Perspectives on the Medical Humanities conference
Posted on Monday 17 June 2019
CGHH PhD student Arnab Chakraborty’s research featured on The Polyphony
Posted on Monday 10 June 2019
CGHH well-represented at May’s interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Edinburgh
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
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
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.
Posted on Thursday 4 April 2019
Brookings India’s next development seminar will feature Sanjoy Bhattacharya's research on smallpox eradication
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
Posted on Wednesday 13 March 2019
A report on 6 March's GHH seminar on this pressing health topic
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Posted on Monday 28 January 2019
New webinars in the WHO Culture and Health series announced
Posted on Thursday 20 December 2018
Dr Victoria Turner acted as a rapporteur at high-level, international meeting
Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2018
Dr Nathoo captivated the audience with her earlier research on the cultural history of early heart transplantation
Posted on Tuesday 4 December 2018
Catch up with the presentations and discussions at the 113th seminar on ‘Immunization for Universal Health Coverage’
Posted on Tuesday 27 November 2018
Sanjoy Bhattacharya will continue as an academic advisor for a further three years.
Posted on Friday 9 November 2018
A report on Namrata Ganneri's recent visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan
Posted on Friday 9 November 2018
Reporting on CGHH's involvement in the recent UN City Culture Night
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
Posted on Wednesday 24 October 2018
24 October, World Polio Day, celebrates progress against the disease
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
Posted on Tuesday 16 October 2018
Sanjoy Bhattacharya will deliver a talk as part of the BBC History Magazine's History Weekend
Posted on Wednesday 3 October 2018
Kaisa Harju joins as a Visiting Scholar until December 2018
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.
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
Posted on Tuesday 11 September 2018
Read Alexander Medcalf and João Nunes’ latest article in Medical History
Posted on Tuesday 4 September 2018
York’s MA in Medical History and Humanities receives Wellcome Trust Award
Posted on Tuesday 28 August 2018
Sarah Hartley awarded fellowship to work at the WHO Regional Office for Europe
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.
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
Posted on Tuesday 24 July 2018
Read more about the newest publications in the Global Health Histories series
Posted on Monday 9 July 2018
Read a report and access the recording from the 107th Global Health Histories seminar on vaccine hesitancy
Posted on Tuesday 3 July 2018
A report on recent research and upcoming conference activity
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.
Posted on Monday 25 June 2018
New Marathi translation of ‘India’s First Democratic Revolution’
Posted on Monday 11 June 2018
Director of CGHH Sanjoy Bhattacharya delivers two lectures at Shanghai University.
Posted on Monday 14 May 2018
Professor Bhattacharya appointed a Visiting Professor by Nanyang Technological University
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.
Posted on Friday 27 April 2018
A report on Sanjoy Bhattacharya’s attendance at a recent WHO Expert Committee meeting
Posted on Monday 23 April 2018
A report by Dr Suranga Dolamulla, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Health Histories
Posted on Friday 13 April 2018
A conference update from CGHH PhD student Ben Walker
Posted on Tuesday 27 March 2018
CGHH welcomes Dr Namrata Ganneri
Posted on Friday 2 March 2018
The Centre for Global Health Histories welcomes Dr Rebecca Wright
Posted on Friday 23 February 2018
An update about how the recent CGHH/C2D2 publication is being received.
Posted on Thursday 22 February 2018
Deika Mohamed has been awarded the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement
Posted on Wednesday 21 February 2018
News on a recent invitation for Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Posted on Tuesday 20 February 2018
Read Alexander Medcalf’s latest article in the Journal of Global History
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
Posted on Monday 12 February 2018
Read Margaret Jones' latest co-authored article in Asian Review of World Histories.
Posted on Tuesday 6 February 2018
Sanjoy Bhattacharya’s lecture on smallpox eradication now available online.
Posted on Tuesday 30 January 2018
PhD Student Arnab Chakraborty reports on a recent British Library workshop
Posted on Friday 26 January 2018
CGHH's Sanjoy Bhattacharya joins global health emergencies working group
Posted on Friday 26 January 2018
Ben Walker presents at Institute of Historical Research seminar series
Posted on Wednesday 17 January 2018
A report on recent and upcoming conference activity
Posted on Monday 15 January 2018
News on a recent invitation for Prof. 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
Posted on Monday 18 December 2017
Sanjoy Bhattacharya invited to provide expert consultation and commentary on the right to health & deprivation of liberty
Posted on Tuesday 12 December 2017
Keeping track of coverage of CGHH articles and papers
Posted on Tuesday 28 November 2017
Sanjoy Bhattacharya joins working group examining the ethical challenges of conducting research in global health emergencies
Posted on Monday 27 November 2017
Join us for an interdisciplinary workshop on Trust in Global Health on 1st December
Posted on Friday 24 November 2017
A report on Her Excellency Amari Wijewardane's recent official visit to the University of York
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
Posted on Friday 10 November 2017
News on CGHH involvement in an upcoming meeting and workshop on antimicrobial resistance
Posted on Friday 27 October 2017
The Island covers latest Global Health Histories seminar on AMR
Posted on Tuesday 24 October 2017
Suranga Dolamulla selected to attend international workshop
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.
Posted on Tuesday 3 October 2017
Recordings now available for the 102nd instalment of the popular Global Health Histories series
Posted on Thursday 14 September 2017
A report on Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya's training seminar in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Posted on Wednesday 30 August 2017
Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Director of CGHH, has been featured in an online news article on polio eradication
Posted on Tuesday 11 July 2017
A report on the interdisciplinary workshop held at the Wellcome Collection, London, 12 June 2017
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
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
Posted on Wednesday 28 June 2017
Monica Saavedra's latest research article is out now in Medical History
Posted on Wednesday 21 June 2017
Prof Sanjoy Bhattacharya has won the ‘Promoting Liberation & Inclusivity’ category in York University’s 2017 Excellence Awards.
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.
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.
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
Posted on Tuesday 16 May 2017
Lu Chen has been awarded Wellcome Trust’s prestigious Medical Humanities PhD studentship for her smallpox project
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
Posted on Friday 5 May 2017
CGHH PhD student Ben Walker recounts his archival fieldwork in Ghana, with tips for researchers
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
Posted on Tuesday 21 March 2017
Read CGHH PhD student Sarah Hartley's recent article in Medical History
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
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.
Posted on Monday 13 February 2017
Monica Saavedra interviewed for for RTP’s 'Hora dos Portugueses' programme
Posted on Wednesday 8 February 2017
CGHH congratulates Arnab Chakrabarty on his Rockefeller Grant Success.
Posted on Thursday 2 February 2017
Sri Lanka's Director of Tertiary Care granted prestigious Wellcome Trust Research Award
Posted on Wednesday 18 January 2017
The Centre for Global Health Histories looks back on a successful year, and forward to a busy 2017.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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."
Posted on Tuesday 18 October 2016
Read Dr Margaret Jones' latest article in Medical History
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.
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.
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.
Posted on Thursday 1 September 2016
CGHH Student Ben Walker will speak at two international conferences in September 2016.
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.
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.
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’.
Posted on Tuesday 28 June 2016
CGHH presents a report on a recent Health Histories Witness Seminar hosted by WWARN, on 23 June 2016.
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.
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.
Posted on Tuesday 7 June 2016
New publications on Ethics and Zika have been made available by PAHO (WHO).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Posted on Thursday 18 February 2016
The Centre for Global Health Histories’ latest title 'Leprosy: A Short History' (by Orient BlackSwan) has been released.
Posted on Wednesday 10 February 2016
Sarah Hartley has been recently awarded a grant worth $4000 from the Rockefeller Archive Centre.
Posted on Tuesday 12 January 2016
The Centre for Global Health Histories looks back on a successful year, and forward to a busy 2016.
Posted on Tuesday 12 January 2016
‘Nursing and Empire:’ An exciting new addition to the NPSAH series is due to be released
Posted on Tuesday 12 January 2016
An update on the CGHH Director’s recent external activity.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
Posted on Wednesday 23 September 2015
An update on the CGHH Director's most recent external activity
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.
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.
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
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
Posted on Monday 20 July 2015
Dr Karine Aasgaard Jansen (Umeå University) will be joining the Department of History this autumn
Posted on Monday 20 July 2015
A new special issue of Medical History is out now, guest edited by Nicholas Whitfield and Thomas Schlich.
Posted on Thursday 16 July 2015
York's Department of History can look back on a number of splendid achievements throughout 2014/15
Posted on Tuesday 7 July 2015
Ben Walker will soon commence research on Smallpox control and eradication in Ghana
Posted on Monday 29 June 2015
Dr Henrice Altink is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to deliver a research masterclass
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
Posted on Friday 5 June 2015
A splendid array of talks and events coming up as part of the 2015 York Festival of Ideas
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
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.
Posted on Monday 20 April 2015
Recording now available of Prof Bhattacharya's Sheffield Lecture
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
Posted on Wednesday 4 March 2015
An international conference featuring a truly splendid lineup in Lausanne, Switzerland
Posted on Tuesday 17 February 2015
A one day workshop on the many challenges presented by tuberculosis now and in the past
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.
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’.
Posted on Wednesday 4 February 2015
Access a free collection of articles about tuberculosis from Medical History
Posted on Monday 1 December 2014
What has a drug resistant world looked like in the past?
Posted on Wednesday 19 November 2014
Abstract submission is now open - send proposals and cvs to workshoptropicaldiseases@fiocruz.br
Posted on Wednesday 8 October 2014
Professor Bhattacharya interrogates categories and transitions in the historiography of medicine
Posted on Tuesday 23 September 2014
Come along to the Treehouse in the Berrick Saul Building this autumn to hear presenters explore and debate exciting research in the field of medical humanities
Posted on Wednesday 27 August 2014
The bilingual exhibition focuses on tropical diseases, their history, impact and efforts to control them and is available to view until 30th September.
Posted on Monday 30 June 2014
Global Health Histories (published by Cambridge University Press) launched in 2014
Posted on Monday 30 June 2014
Exhibition will focus on tropical diseases,their history, impact and efforts to control them
Posted on Thursday 26 June 2014
CGHH's Director awarded major Brocher Foundation workshop grant
Posted on Thursday 29 May 2014
‘Tropical Diseases: lessons from history’, based on the 2009 World Health Organization Global Health Histories seminar series of the same name, has now been published
Posted on Thursday 29 May 2014
A report on CGHH activities at the World Health Assembly in Geneva
Posted on Thursday 8 May 2014
The popular seminar series takes place for the first time in Cairo with an event on the public health implications of mass gatherings
Posted on Tuesday 29 April 2014
A new special issue of Medical History, guest edited by Vanessa Noble and Julie Parle
Posted on Thursday 27 March 2014
Dr Nitin Sinha (University of York) joins New Perspectives in South Asian History (published by Orient BlackSwan) as a series editor
Posted on Monday 24 February 2014
Information now available on 2014's competition
Posted on Wednesday 5 February 2014
Jo Lunt wins grant-in-aid to pursue research at the Rockefeller Archive Center
Posted on Wednesday 29 January 2014
Details of an upcoming international workshop featuring a multi-faceted programme of panels on History, the Humanities and Global Health.
Posted on Tuesday 21 January 2014
In 2014 the focus of the popular annual seminar series turns to the history of universal health coverage. And once again, people from all over the world will be able to register to listen and discuss the issues under consideration live over the internet.
Posted on Wednesday 8 January 2014
Audio recordings of the Global Health Histories Public Lectures 2013 are now available to listen to online
Posted on Thursday 28 November 2013
CGHH given formal recognition by the World Health Organization.
Posted on Wednesday 13 November 2013
Call for papers for a two-day workshop examining some of the unique public health policies that emerged in the Caribbean and Latin America
Posted on Monday 28 October 2013
CGHH pleased to be part of a group hosting Professor Michael Bennett
Posted on Friday 27 September 2013
A series of free public lectures hosted by the Centre for Global Health Histories.
Posted on Wednesday 31 July 2013
Helen Bynum's lecture on tuberculosis now available online
Posted on Tuesday 16 July 2013
Catch up on 2013's seminars so far
Posted on Tuesday 18 June 2013
Details of a prestigious, international essay competition for doctoral students and early career post-doctoral researchers
Posted on Monday 10 June 2013
Details of a new exhibition and publication by the Centre for Global Health Histories
Posted on Wednesday 5 June 2013
Dr Alice Hall named as one of ten New Generation Thinkers for 2013 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and BBC Radio 3.
Posted on Thursday 9 May 2013
From May, videos from CGHH will be hosted on dedicated YouTube channel
Posted on Monday 25 March 2013
Dr Alexander Medcalf appointed Assistant Editor
Posted on Friday 1 March 2013
In a recent article for the WHO Bulletin Professor Jaime Benchimol considers how Brazil joined the quest for a yellow fever vaccine
Posted on Thursday 28 February 2013
CGHH Departmental member Dr Henrice Altink will use her recently awarded Rockefeller Foundation grant to research the control of tuberculosis in Jamaica
Posted on Monday 18 February 2013
Titles in the popular series now available to download as ebooks
Posted on Wednesday 6 February 2013
Details of a prestigious, international essay competition for doctoral students and early career post-doctoral researchers
Posted on Tuesday 5 February 2013
The popular Global Health Histories seminar series returns in 2013 with its mission to show how understanding the history of health can help the global public health community respond to the challenges of today
Posted on Tuesday 15 January 2013
Report on the WHO Regional Office for Europe Global Health Histories seminar 1
Posted on Tuesday 8 January 2013
Centre for Global Health Histories represented at History Department Research Seminar
Posted on Monday 7 January 2013
Professor Bhattacharya will deliver a lecture on Bhutan's Smallpox Eradication Programme at the Royal Asiatic Society on Thursday 10th January 2013
Posted on Thursday 3 January 2013
Summary of Dr. Lesley Stewart’s presentations at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on December, 13, 2012
Posted on Thursday 20 December 2012
Professor William Muraskin’s opinion piece published in the British Medical Journal
Posted on Thursday 20 December 2012
Professor Bhattacharya’s Senior Investigator Award features amongst the Wellcome Trust’s highlights for 2012
Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2012
The WHO, Centre for Global Health Histories and Centre for Reviews and Dissemination collaborate to deliver landmark seminars
Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2012
New article by CGHH departmental member Dr Henrice Altink
Posted on Friday 7 December 2012
January 2013 marks a major expansion of the WHO’s Global Health Histories initiative
Posted on Thursday 22 November 2012
A public one-day event at the Royal Society, London
Posted on Tuesday 20 November 2012
Podcasts showcasing a decade of influential papers offered by Medical History are now accessible online
Posted on Wednesday 14 November 2012
A momentous history of medicine article appears in the latest issue of Medical History journal, which is housed in the Centre for Global Health Histories at York: ‘Vesalius Revised: His Annotations to the 1555 Fabrica’ by Professor Vivian Nutton.
Posted on Friday 9 November 2012
Dr Gayle Davis’ lecture can now be viewed in its entirety online
Posted on Tuesday 6 November 2012
The Wellcome Trust is hosting an open evening on Thursday 15 November for students interested in applying for one of the 2013 Graduate Development Programmes.
Posted on Monday 29 October 2012
This week is your last chance to see the Global Smallpox Eradication Exhibition before it closes on 31 October
Posted on Thursday 25 October 2012
You can now keep up to date with the latest news and events from CGHH on Facebook and Twitter
Posted on Friday 19 October 2012
CGHH will continue its exciting and ambitious projects in the Humanities Research Centre