“Public health is global”: examining Indian stakeholders’ perspectives on Global Health education

Public Mental Health: Global Perspectives

This book aims to give an overview of the key issues in public mental health. It is timely as many populations are suffering the depressing consequences of the economic downturn, interest in mental health and well-being by policy makers is increasing, and the recent World Health Organization’s Mental Health Action Plan moves this issue to the top of the health agenda. The book is structured in ...

Perspectives on Global Health

First, let me thank Dr. Koplan for the invitation to give this lecture dedicated to Dr. Joseph Mountin. One cannot read Dr. Mountin’s work and resist using the term visionary. He was clearly committed to excellence and showed this not only in his work in creating the centers, that were the forerunner of this institution, but in his writings on such things as the evaluation of sanitary services....

Global health is (local) public health.

Strengthening public health education and training to improve global health.

Public health training and education have existed for over a century,1 yet there is little systematic evidence on whether current approaches prepare graduates to improve health by developing, evaluating and implementing effective and equityoriented public health programmes. There are three reasons to document and debate this topic worldwide and disproportionately focus on lowand middle-income c...

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...