Latin America at the margins? Implications of the geographic and epistemic narrowing of ‘global’ health

Divorcing ‘Global Health’ from ‘global health’: Theories for the future of a social organization and an idea

“…Much like the term "decolonization," the very idea of global health was a cooptation from movements from beyond the Global North. As a number of scholars make clear (Cabane 2023;Perez-Brumer et al 2024), the idea of global health as theorized in academia emerged in 1980s Latin American critiques of International Health, when scholars in nations traditionally targeted by Global North health interventions and unilateral aid began arguing against Global North dependence, eurocentrism, and opposition between "developed" and "developing" nations. These scholars from the South not only theorized a new understanding of disease as a global phenomenon, unrestricted by nation-state borders, but also framed the new understanding within the material inequalities of International Health and how to change them.…”