power and priorities: the growing pains of global health; comment on “knowledge, moral claims and the exercise of power in global health”

shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary in nature. this article argues that the distribution of power in some global health institutions may be limiting the contributions of all researchers in the field