Global Health Watch 6 Launch Event – 30 May 2022

Medact

Listen back to the event celebrating the publication of the sixth edition of Global Health Watch.

Hear from speakers who contributed to this essential volume, which integrates rigorous analysis with stories of struggle and hope for radical transformation, at this once-in-a-generation moment of focus on the issue of health justice.

Speakers include:

• Dr Chiara Bodini, co-editor of GHW
• Members of the Medact Research Network: Roman Gnaegi, Catia Confortini and Michael Orgel
• Dr Annabel Sowemimo, sexual and reproductive health doctor and founder of Decolonising Contraception
• Dr Lauren Paremoer, senior lecturer in the Political Studies Department at the University of Cape Town and member of PHM South Africa
• Rhiannon Osborne, medical student, organiser with Health for a Green New Deal and Stop Cambo, and member of People’s Health Movement UK.

Global Health Watch (GHW), now in its sixth edition, is the definitive alternative voice on health. Published since 2003, with contributions from activists and academics from around the world, GHW6 integrates rigorous analysis of the social, economic, political and environmental determinants of health with stories of struggle and hope for radical transformation.

The book has been co-produced by People’s Health Movement, Medact, Third World Network, Health Poverty Action, Medico International, ALAMES, Viva Salud and Sama.

This event was held in collaboration with Health Poverty Action, People’s Health Movement UK and People’s Health Movement Scotland—please check out their work!