#birkbeckvoices

As part of a workshop hosted by the Reluctant Internationalists research group on Writing ‘Outsiders’ into the History of International Public Health, David Brydan (Birkbeck), Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes) and Maria Zarifi (Hellenic Open University) examined the history of public health in the so-called ‘outsider’ states of Franco’s Spain, Nazi Germany, and Greece. The panel, chaired by Johanna Conterio (Birkbeck), also incorporated debate on the centrality of public health to state building and the role of nationalism in international public health. The workshop examined what impact factoring in “outsiders” would make to the way historians write the history of international public health. In addition, the workshop sought to ask what close study of “outsiders” and the processes of marginalisation can tell us about the international system of public health – its rules (written and unwritten), its reach, and its commitment to inclusiveness? For more information – http://bit.ly/2oYYqjs