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Critical Perspectives in Global Health

Project

Last Updated on July 23, 2024

Critical global health research entails critical social science with global public health. This means engaging directly with global public health actors to transform global public health while remaining committed to social science theory and methodology.

On December 4, 2019, the Dahdaleh Institute hosted the inaugural York Faculty and Fellow Workshop on Critical Perspectives in Global Health. Challenging the divide between academic and applied research, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research invites the York University community to participate in an ongoing discussion on critical perspectives in global health research (CPGH).An open call to York University researchers for presentations yielded a variety of perspectives on and avenues for this work and provided a starting point for a shared understanding of critical perspectives in global health. CPGH Workshops are now held every spring, featuring presentations by York faculty and fellows on their critical social science research in global health. Participants share and engage with members of the research community at York University from a variety of disciplines, which we hope will lead to new insights, collaboration, and research opportunities.


Seed Grants

To foster more research in this area, the Dahdaleh Institute also offers a Seed Grant Program for Critical Perspectives in Global Health, awarding four grants worth up to CAD $7,000 each year. York University faculty members and postdoctoral researchers from across the university are encouraged to apply.

The purpose of the grant is to enable and support critical global health research at York University that contributes to the three themes of the Dahdaleh Institute: planetary health; global health and humanitarianism; and global health foresighting. Applicants are strongly encouraged to learn more about each theme at yorku.ca/dighr.

The seed grants are also meant to encourage faculty to develop fuller grant proposals for Fall Tri-Council (and other agency or funder) grant deadlines.

Grant recipients are invited to present at the annual Dahdaleh Institute Workshop on Critical Perspectives in Global Health.

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Past CPGH Seed Grant Recipients

2024
  • Agnès Berthelot-Raffard  Towards Gender-Inclusive Social Innovation in Community Care: Lessons from Experiential Knowledge in Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Caribbeans
  • Raju J Das  Scorching Sites: Examining the Health Impacts of Climate Change on Construction Workers
  • Andrew Dawson  Trust and Compliance: A Cross-National Investigation of the Relationship between Trust in Political Institutions and Healthcare Systems
  • Christo El Morr  An AI-Driven Tool for Disability Rights Monitoring 
2023
  • Syed Imran Ali and Stephanie Gora – Community-Based Participatory Water Quality Monitoring for Safe Water Optimization in the Canadian North
  • Chloe Clifford Astbury – Mining, Health, and Environmental Change: Using Systems Mapping to Understand Relationships in a Complex System
  • Godfred Boateng – Retooling Black Anxiety: An Exploratory and Intervention Study of Black Families with Children In and Out of the Criminal Justice System in Canada
  • Ahmad Firas Khalid – Using Experiential Simulation-Based Learning to Increase Students' Ability to Analyze Increasingly Complex Global Health Challenges: A Mixed Methods Study
  • Gerson Luiz Scheidweiler Ferreira – Breaking Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health: Empowering Venezuelan Refugee Women in Brazil's Resettlement Process
2022
  • Pablo Aránguiz – Decolonizing planetary health through Williche ecologies of repair
  • Simone Bohn – State capacity and health equity in a post-slavery context: The case of the Quilombolas in Brazil
  • Maggie MacDonald – Misoprostol in humanitarian settings
  • Blessing Ogbuokiri – Harnessing social media data to complement infectious disease outbreak surveillance data
  • Jeffrey Squire – Covid-19 and healthcare waste management in urban Africa
2021
  • Claudia Chaufan – The violence of nonviolence: A critical analysis of the academic literature on the health effects of sanctions
  • Denielle Elliott – Situated neurology: An ethnographic study of neurology in Kenya
  • Oghenowede Eyawo – Critical perspectives on the epidemiological dimensions of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: What can the world learn?
  • Michaela Hynie – Consequences of human rights violations on trust among refugees in South Africa: Implications for public health
  • Jessica Vorstermans – Decolonizing the social determinants of health to identify areas for mobilizing South-South partnerships of humanitarian solidarity
2020
  • Christina Hoicka – Advancing a just and democratic renewable energy transition in Canada
  • Sadia Malik – From territorial security to human security: The role of public health in national and global security frameworks
  • Marina Morrow - Centring human rights in global mental health: Service user approaches
  • Jack Rozdilsky– Working to close the gap in COVID-19 response-generated demands in a Canadian First Nations context
  • Adrian Viens – The need for a critical perspective on the ethical dimensions of the global humanitarian response to COVID-19

Article - Critical Social Science with Public Health: Agonism, Critique and Engagement

Co-authored by CPGH Steering Committee member Prof. Eric Mykhalovskiy, this article is about a mode of scholarly practice termed critical social science with public health. Critical social science with public health engages directly with public health actors, while remaining committed to the specificity of social science theory and methodology. It aims to transform public health, often by seeking to lessen the harmful effects of public health practice, while, at the same time, contributing to critical social science scholarship.

Click here to download the full article.

Mykhalovskiy, Eric, et al. Critical Social Science with Public Health: Agonism, Critique and Engagement. Critical Public Health, vol. 29, no. 5, Oct. 2019, pp. 522–533, doi:10.1080/09581596.2018.1474174.

Themes

Global Health Foresighting

Status

Active

Related Work

Updates

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Seed Grants in Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research | July 12, 2024

Recap — Investigating Global Health: A Critical Social Science Perspective | July 12, 2024

[UPDATED] Call for Applications – 2024 Seed Grants for Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research | February 2, 2024

Call for Presentations – 2024 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Workshop | February 1, 2024

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Seed Grants in Critical Perspectives in Global Health Research | May 8, 2023

Recap — Research Exploration: Taking a Critical Social Science Approach to Global Health Research | April 10, 2023

Call for Applications – 2023 Seed Grants for Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research | March 30, 2023

Call for Presentations – 2023 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Workshop | February 24, 2023

Five York Researchers Awarded Seed Grants for Critical Perspectives in Global Health Research | May 9, 2022

Advancing Critical Global Health Research at the Dahdaleh Institute | April 19, 2022

Call for Applications – 2022 Seed Grants for Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research | March 1, 2022

Call for Workshop Presentations: Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health | January 31, 2022

2021 Seed Grant Recipients Announced: Dahdaleh Institute Seed Grants for Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Awarded to Five York Researchers | June 17, 2021

Call for Application to the 2021 Seed Grant Program for Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research | February 25, 2021

Inaugural Seed Grant in Critical Perspectives in Global Health Recipients Announced | May 12, 2020

Dahdaleh Institute Hosts Critical Perspectives in Global Health Workshop | December 17, 2019

People

James Orbinski, Director - Active

Maggie MacDonald, Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies - Active

Sarah Flicker, Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change - Active

Roger Keil, Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change - Active

Rhonda Ferguson, Research Fellow, Global Health Visioning - Alum

Marina Morrow, Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Health - Active

James Stinson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Planetary Health & Education - Active

Jack Rozdilsky, Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies - Active

Harris Ali, Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies - Active

Eric Mykhalovskiy, Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies - Active

Cary Wu, Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies - Active

Hillary Birch, Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change - Active


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