Unpacking the Polycrisis: Transforming Capitalism’s Existential Health Threats, with Ronald Labonté
Polycrisis has become the new term to reference the multiple intersecting crises that are posing global health threats. This upcoming seminar will unpack some of these crises, beginning with the chaotic disruptions to health and economic order engineered by Donald Trump’s second presidency and his administration’s coterie of enabling loyalists. It will identify some of the key elements of ‘Donald Trump as Polycrisis’ before locating them in the history of predatory capitalism and its consumptogenic necessity. It concludes with a discussion of the potential for alternative economic paradigms, many embedded under the rubric of ‘wellbeing economics.’ It will also launch the newest edition of the People’s Health Movement’s flagship triannual publication, Global Health Watch 7: Mobilizing for Health Justice, from which some of the elements of the talk are taken.
In preparation for this seminar, Dr. Labonté has recommended reading Global Health Watch 7 Introduction and Chapter A1.
Speaker Profile
Ronald Labonté is Professor Emeritus and former Distinguished Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa. For the past 30 years his research has focused on the health equity impacts of diverse globalization processes, on topics ranging from health worker migration; medical tourism; global health diplomacy; trade, political economy and tobacco control; trade and food security; health impact assessments of trade and investment treaties; comprehensive primary health care reforms; the social determinants of health equity; health and foreign policy; and global governance of infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance. He is active with the People’s Health Movement, has consulted extensively with UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations, and is an Editor-in-Chief of the BMC journal, Globalization and Health.
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