Section outline

    • WEEK 10 - LECTURE: INTRODUCTION

      This penultimate class will focus on one of the defining global health issues of our time - COVID-19. It's bewildering to think that we started the module as the virus just began to take off, and now we are facing a pandemic. How, and how quickly, we (by which I mean individuals, governments and non-government actors) respond individually and collectively to the virus will literally mean life or death for hundreds of thousands of people. Effective global health governance is now vital.  

       

      Dr Jonathan Kennedy has prepared a set of excellent slides for his MSc module Global Heath Governance and Law. This is an elective module for some of you, but for those of who not taking the module here are his slides. They are a great introduction to a number of issues. 

       

      WEEK 10 - webINAR: INTRODUCTION

      The webinar this week will be led by Dr Jennifer Randall. You should already have received an invitation from her to participate in a webinar on Microsoft Teams. If you haven't, then please email me - a.harmer@qmul.ac.uk.

      Jen will present some ideas and themes at the start of the session and then we will have a discussion about those topics and the two set readings for the week. Jen will talk about the following emerging themes from the pandemic:

      1.       War metaphors and framing

      2.       Harm reduction

      3.       Food systems

      4.       Intersection with BLM and racial justice activism 

      An aim of the module is to bridge this and the PHIP modules and consider all the topics we have discussed thus far around activism, research engagement, critical pedagogy, stories, empowerment and the social determinants to consider everything we have experienced and learned through COVID.

       

      WEEK 10 TASKS

      Please read the two key readings below

      READING

      Berlivet and Lowy (2020) Hydroxychloroquine Controversies

      https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maq.12622

      Oyarzun (2020) Plantation Politics, Paranoia, and Public Health on the Frontlines of America’s COVID-19

      Response

      https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/maq.12623 ;





    • Week 10 CONTEMPORARY ISSUE FIVE - COVID-19 - slides File
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      These slides accompany week 10 live lecture

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