Global Health Lecture 1/30/09 at 3:30

Friday, January 30 at 3:30 pm, in room 180 Science Hall:

Matthew Sparke
University of Washington, Geography and International Studies
will be presenting:
"Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health"

Abstract: *Louis Pasteur once claimed that: The microbe is nothing; the terrain everything. So what, we should ask, is the terrain of global health in the context of growing global interdependency? How do different visions of globalization shape the way in which the global in global health is imagined and mapped? And what are the consequences for the ways in which the social determinants of health globally are understood and targeted for intervention? This talk outlines answers to these questions by exploring how four different socio-economic visions of globalization lead to four distinct mappings of global health problems, their causes and their susceptibility to different forms of local and global intervention.

A copy of the paper on which this talk is based is available on the website of the People's Health Movement: Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health
<http://www.phmovement.org/cms/files/%201SparkeGlobalHealth.pdf>.
Another version is also available, along with other publications by Professor Sparke <http://faculty.washington.edu/sparke/>.


Dr. Sparke will also be giving a brownbag talk at 12:00 in Room 350: "Teaching globalization amidst the challenges of re-presenting neoliberalism"

All attendees are also invited to join Dr. Sparke at the union following the talk.