Outcomes from the workshop "The Political Determinants of Health - 10 Years On"

In January 2024, we invited Collective members and others to take stock of 10 years of scholarship on the political determinants of health through a workshop organised in Oslo. Watch the recordings from the workshop here.

Illustration of the various political determinants of health

The global political determinants of health are the transnational norms, policies, and practices that arise from political interaction across all sectors that affect health.

The Political Determinants of Health - 10 Years On

This hybrid workshop was organized on 18 and 19 January 2024 by The Collective for the Political Determinants of Health and hosted by the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo.

Recordings

Day 1: Thursday 18 January

Welcome


The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health: 10 Years On

Chair: Katerini T. Storeng, University of Oslo


Rethinking accountability and power hierarchies

Chair: Remco van de Pas, Centre for Planetary Health Policy

Presentations:

  • David McCoy, International Institute for Global Health (remote)
    Power and accountability of the private sector
  • Jashodhara Dasgupta, independent researcher (remote)
    Beyond the Binary: Interrogating ‘Authenticity’ in Decolonizing Discourses 
  • Desmond McNeill, University of Oslo
    The World Economic Forum and stakeholder capitalism

Political economy post-COVID

Chair: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The New School

Presentations:

  • Ron Labonté, University of Ottawa and Remco van de Pas, Centre for Planetary Health Policy
    Post growth economic pathways for global health justice
  • Ted Schrecker, Newcastle University (remote)
    The Covid-19 pandemic as tipping point:  Analysis and prognoses for la longue durée
  • James Pfeiffer, University of Washington (remote)
    Advocacy at the American Public Health Association on the looming debt crisis

 

Day 2: Friday 19 January


Innovation, medical products and equity

Chair: Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée, University of Oslo

Presentations:

  • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The New School
    Promoting equity in global health: Why national governments do not use their policy space to expand access to medicines
  • Deborah Gleeson, La Trobe University
    The WHO pandemic accord and equitable access to pandemic-related products: an analysis of proposed measures and negotiating dynamics
  • Suerie Moon, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (remote)
    Rising multipolarity and the promise and pitfalls of a decentralizing global helath system for pandemic-related products 
  • Felix Stein, University of Oslo
    Innovative financing for pandemic preparedness

 

Pandemic response at the public—private interface

Chair: Ron Labonté, University of Ottawa

  • Anna Marriot, Oxfam
    Development finance institutions (DFIs), private health care in the Global South and the Covid-19 pandemic
  • Kelley Lee, Simon Fraser University
    Travel measures during Covid-19
  • Katerini T. Storeng, University of Oslo
    The privatization of pandemic intelligence
  • Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée, University of Oslo
    Public-private partnerships and pandemic preparedness

About the organiser

The Collective for the Political Determinants of Health advances research examining how transnational issues outside the health sector impact health everywhere, such as trade, fiscal policy and technology. Collective members are particularly concerned with how power constellations, institutions, interests, and ideological positions affect health within different political systems and cultures and at different levels of governance.

The Collective grew out of the Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health and its 2014 landmark report that drew attention to the political determinants of health. The Collective is hosted by the University of Oslo’s Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM).

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Published Jan. 23, 2024 3:26 PM - Last modified Mar. 4, 2024 9:00 AM