SUM4023 – The Political Economy of Global Health
Course content
Global health is a rapidly emerging field of research, education, policy, practice and advocacy. Global health problems cross borders, and are therefore increasingly the focus of foreign policy and international relations. Addressing global health problems requires intersectoral and interdisciplinary solutions, and coordination and a range of strategies and action across sectors, not just the health sector. This course takes a social scientific approach to global health, and examines what it entails to analyse global health from a political economy perspective. Through lectures, seminars and films, the course will analyse how global health – and global health governance - is influenced by politics and processes of globalisation, and how global health is linked with development and development goals. Through in-depth case studies of political responses to maternal and child m