Article ID: CBB970826256

International Health Research and the Emergence of Global Health in the Late Twentieth Century (2019)

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An influential policy network emerged from two overlapping developments of the 1970s and 1980s: new research programs focusing on tropical diseases and debates about how to implement the concept of primary health care at the World Health Organization. Participating actors came together in an informal network that, by the late 1980s, expanded advocacy to include the promotion and reorganization of all forms of research that might improve health in the Global South. This goal became associated with a search for new research methods for determining priorities, a quest that reached a peak in the early 1990s when the World Bank entered the picture. The bank brought money, economic analyses, and neoliberal ideology to the research advocacy movement and helped stimulate an upsurge of cost-effective forms of economic thinking in global health (GH) circles. This expanded research network provided some of the conceptual foundations and leadership for several of the most emblematic institutions of the new GH. These included new organizations to bring together and coordinate public and private actors in pursuit of common aims and new forms of economic rationality. The network's advocacy work contributed as well to a massive expansion of GH research at the turn of the century.

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Authors & Contributors
Gradmann, Christoph
Gaudillière, Jean-Paul
Bollyky, Thomas J.
Beaudevin, Claire
Campani, Carlos Eduardo D’Avila Pereira
Rosenberg, Mark
Concepts
Public health
Global health
Medicine and society
Medicine and politics
Health care
Medicine and government
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
Africa
Myanmar (Burma)
England
Spain
France
China
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Bank
United Nations
UNICEF
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Harvard School of Public Health
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