Critical Global Health at UCL: An Interdisciplinary Virtual Roundtable

On June 20th, UCL Grand Challenges invites researchers, students, and professional services staff from across UCL to join us for an online roundtable discussing Critical Global Health scholarship and teaching at UCL: both their current status, and future possibilities.

In this roundtable, experts from a diverse range of UCL departments will lead a discussion beginning with the following question: what is Critical Global Health?

This event is designed to kickstart conversations around Critical Global Health as practised and taught at UCL, with the goal of encouraging interdisciplinary thinking, collaboration, and further development in this area.

The first half of the roundtable will be devoted to short presentations by each speaker, with the remaining time spent on broader discussion of Critical Global Health. Among other topics, our participants will address the role of colonialism and (de)coloniality, structural inequality, the role of institutions in perpetuating or alleviating global health inequities - and our role as critical scholars in all of this.

We welcome questions submitted both in advance and live at the roundtable.

Roundtable participants include:

• Jennie Gamlin (Associate Professor, UCL Institute for Global Health; Deputy Director, UCL Centre for Gender and Global Health)
• Ishtar Govia (Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, UWI Caribbean Institute for Health Research; Visiting Fellow, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies)
• Paige Patchin (Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre)
• Haim Yacobi (Professor of Development Planning, UCL The Bartlett Development Planning Unit)

This event is hosted by UCL’s Grand Challenge of Global Health (GCGH) and co-sponsored by SHS Health, Mind and Society .