Description
Global health is shaped by different actors, knowledges and power structures. When studying global health, we regularly encounter competing priorities and vocabularies, which makes the field intrinsically interdisciplinary. This panel examines these dynamics across different levels of analysis to interrogate the object and relationality of global health. It does so by highlighting the role of epistemic communities in international health policy; the role of technology in shaping access to medicines; the complexity and fluidity of the contagion as an object of 'expertise'; and the politics of naming diseases in global health. As such, this panel offers a critical and problematizing angle to the study of global health in revealing the underpinning exertion of power through discourse, knowledge, and technology.
