Each of the following five chapters has a different focus.

In the first chapter, we will address the questions of how innovations from Africa contribute to global health. How is knowledge produced in certain parts of Africa? How do academia and education in the Global North deal with this knowledge? These will be the first questions we explore.

During the second chapter, we will identify the connections between environmental factors and people’s health in African cities.

In the third chapter, we will examine health economies in Africa. Specifically, we will ask how health economists analyse health systems and produce knowledge relevant for future policies.

What are the challenges faced when developing drugs and vaccines? How are they different in the Global North and the Global South? We will make these comparisons in the fourth chapter.

In the fifth and last chapter, we will investigate the methodological skills that historians of medicine use. We will also touch upon the circulation of knowledge in the Global South.

Adapting your workload

The fact that chapters two to five cover four different disciplines means that you will have to adjust the time and depth of your engagement in this course. Every chapter addresses various African contributions to global health and engages with different actors, methodological approaches and theories.

We will present cases from Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

There is a lot to learn from each case and each discipline. We would like you to get a feeling for interdisciplinary research and aim for an understanding of global health from an Africanist point of view.

Experts who have created this course

An impressive number of experts and institutions are involved in this course: Dr Tanja Hammel and Doris Osei Afriyie, Professor Günther Fink, Professor Christian Burri, Dr Eric Ipyn Nébié, Dr Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, and Akuto Akpedze Konou.

Many others have also made essential contributions to developing and producing this course. The attached PDF gives you an overview.

Author: Dr Tanja Hammel

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