#birkbeckvoices

As part of a workshop hosted by the Reluctant Internationalists research group on Writing ‘Outsiders’ into the History of International Public Health, Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck), Lion Murard (French National Centre for Scientific Research), Yitang Lin and Thomas David (University of Lausanne) and Davide Rodogno (University of Geneva) discussed the political dimensions of international health. The panel, chaired by Dora Vargha (Exeter), addressed the theme of giving and taking in international public health and examined who can be regarded as an ‘outsider’. 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