Histoire de l'OMS

The WHO in Historical and Ideological Perspective: Past, Present, and Future

Lecture by Professor Theodore M. Brown (University of Rochester)

Thursday 13th February 2020. 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: John Snow Lecture Theatre A, LSHTM Keppel Street Building

This talk will distil and extend the book The World Health Organization: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2019) by one of its three authors, and offer a perspective on where the WHO is now and may be heading in the crowded and contested world of international and global health.

Rather than focusing on the WHO’s specific public health campaigns, health security interventions, or technical advances and achievements, the book concentrates on how the organisation has been and continues to be shaped by political context and the interests of major national and economic powers, the conflict between rival medical ideologies, and the pursuit or avoidance of its own principles of global equity and social justice as articulated in its 1948 constitution and the Alma-Ata declaration of 1978.


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Funded by the Wellcome Trust