Naming Global Health

Naming Global Health

During my senior year in college, a professor accused our small class of a topology reading seminar of trying to lord power through language. He argued, on several interminable occasions, that, instead of choosing words that we knew to be terms of art, we should speak as simply as possible. We should try to have any person understand and credit their thinking without punishing them for any fail...

Ethnic Structure in Global Naming Networks

In today’s multicultural society, there is a growing need to understand the detailed composition of different ethnic groups and the interactions between them. These large-scale group dynamics emerge from the aggregation of millions of ethnic self-identifications of individuals. Mateos et al. (2011) and others have begun to demonstrate the extent to which cultural, ethnic and linguistic (CEL) as...

Polycentrism in Global Health Governance Scholarship; Comment on “Four Challenges That Global Health Networks Face”

Drawing on an in-depth analysis of eight global health networks, a recent essay in this journal argued that global health networks face four challenges to their effectiveness: problem definition, positioning, coalition-building, and governance. While sharing the argument of the essay concerned, in this commentary, we argue that these analytical concepts can be used to explicate a concept that h...

Naming and framing Indigenous health issues.

James Bond and Global Health Diplomacy

In the 21st Century, distinctions and boundaries between global health, international politics, and the broader interests of the global community are harder to define and enforce than ever before. As a result, global health workers, leaders, and institutions face pressing questions around the nature and extent of their involvement with non-health endeavors, including international conflict reso...