Globalization and Health

Ronald Labonté is a Professor in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Canada, and Distinguished Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity. His current work focuses on the political economy of trade and health, health worker migration, medical tourism, health system reform, and global health diplomacy. He chaired the Globalization Knowledge Network for the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, consults with UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations, and is active in the Peoples’ Health Movement. He enjoyed an earlier career as a health promotion consultant working in Canada and internationally on the social determinants of health equity.

Katerini T. Storeng is Associate Professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, where she leads the Global Health Politics research group and co-directs the Collective for the Political Determinants of Health. With a grounding in medical anthropology, her research focuses on how global public-private partnerships, philanthropies and corporations are reshaping global health governance, knowledge production and policymaking, currently within the domains of pandemic response and digital health.

Lauren Paremoer is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town. Informed by a feminist political economy approach, her research focuses on health activism, conceptions and enactments of solidarity in global governance for health, and political mobilisation aimed at realising social citizenship in the Global South. She is a member of the People’s Health Movement, and is active in leading its Democratising Global Health Governance programme.