Researching Civil-Military Global Health Delivery and Governance, Challenges and Opportunities, with Fawzia Gibson-Fall
This seminar will explore the ethical and practical dilemmas linked to researching military involvement in global health and reflect on the importance of this research for global health governance. The lecture will build on practical examples from research in African settings and within international organizations.
In preparation for this seminar, Dr. Gibson-Fall has recommended reading Military responses to COVID-19, emerging trends in global civil-military engagements, Global health security and the health-security nexus: principles, politics and praxis, and Coronavirus: how to avoid military responses becoming double-edged swords.
Speaker Profile
Fawzia's research explores the role of security actors in global health, issues of trust, misinformation, and disinformation, as well as conflict and health. Her first book entitled, ‘Health Warriors, the Global Politics of Military Health in Africa,’ is under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press and builds. She has a solid track record as a global health educator: she was a Lecturer in Global Health at University College London (UCL) and a Teaching Fellow at the King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships where she led postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Conflict & Health, Global Burden of Disease, Health Systems, Health Policy, and Child Health. She co-developed and delivered research capacity-building workshops as part of King’s health partnerships in Sierra Leone and Somaliland and ran a global health conference cycle at the Royal Society of Medicine.
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