Overarching Concepts

colonial/tropical medicine, international health, recent/current global health, emerging field of global health

Stage 1: keeping white colonists alive in the tropics

Stage 2: privileged people from high-income countries trying to help people in low income countries

Stage 3: researchers from rich countries leading research programs in low resource areas

Stage 4: work increasingly led by researchers from low- and middle-income countries

More ethical research, improved study design/data interpretation, more tailored interventions

Increase representation (by those affected by the issues) in global health organizations, support global health work in LMICs, funding respecting local priorities/expertise

Not everyone is able to access safe environments and resources required to support good health (low-resource regions/people of color: exposed to toxic environments and sources of infection, limited access to water, food, healthcare)
Chronic/harmful exposures can become embodied (negatively affect individual biology)

process through witch individuals lose social standing and become viewed as unacceptable or undesirable because they fail to meet social standards (can compromise wellbeing

Pandemic has exacerbated global health work to address infectious diseases (HIV/AIDs, TB, malaria, STIs, NTDs) and noncommunicable conditions (poor mental health, reproductive disparities)

Readjust pandemic preparedness, identify disproportionately impacted individuals to prioritize in future interventions, increase international coordination and resource sharing

Purely biomedical focus may miss key social considerations that influence disease risk and treatment programs as well as biological processes linked with social factors (epigenetics, embodiment, weathering, allostatic load)