Series Theme: Mapping Global Health

This year's seminar will explore how the space of the global is constituted in practices of global health. On the one hand, we are interested in exploring the continuities between the spaces of global health and older geographies of international health and tropical medicine. On the other hand, in recent years the field of global health has charted new maps of humanitarian and epidemiological linkages between previously unconnected places. The questions of the seminar will cohere around three sub-themes: the relationship between measurement and mapping; continuity and rupture between colonial and postcolonial networks of global public health; and the radical cartography as a form of scholarship and activism. Our aim would be to place important historical, epidemiological, and ethnographic examples in conversation with GIS and other forms of spatial analysis to interrogate the spaces that constitute global health today.

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Critical Global Health Series


Spring 2014
Mapping Global Health

  • Tue February 4
    9 - 10:30 AM
    Homewood

    Locating Global Health: Histories and Ethnographies Selected Readings

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  • Tue February 25
    9 - 10:30 AM
    East Baltimore

    Vital Geographies: Mapping Health Disparities Selected Readings

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  • Tue March 4
    9 - 10:30 AM
    Homewood

    Radical Cartographies: Critical Uses of Spatial Analysis Selected Readings

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  • Tuesday, March 25
    9 - 10:30 AM
    East Baltimore

    Tom Koch Department of Geography, University of British Columbia The Morals in the Map: A Geographic History of Global Health

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  • Tue April 15
    9 - 10:30 AM
    Homewood

    Peter Redfield Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Triage Without Borders

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  • Tuesday, May 13
    9 - 10:30 AM
    East Baltimore

    Frank Curriero Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Spatial Analysis in Global Health

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The Critical Global Health Seminar Series is an interdisciplinary forum that explores the complex set of political, economic, social, and ecological forces driving patterns of sickness and health and responses to them.

Alternating Location

East Baltimore, Institute of the History of Medicine, Welch Library 3rd Floor, 1900 E. Monument Street

Homewood, Anthropology Seminar Room, Macaulay 400

Participants should commit to attending all or most of the talks and to reading the pre-circulated paper.

Participation in the seminar is by invitation or by e-mailing:
rpackar2@jhmi.edu

For further information see: http://criticalglobalhealth.net

Sponsored by

Johns Hopkins University, Departments of Anthropology; Health, Behavior and Society; History; History of Medicine; and International Health