Rethinking Global Health: Frameworks of Power

Join us for this hybrid, public event with the HCRI and FBHM's Health and Health Systems in the Global Context team.

SPEAKER

Rochelle Burgess is Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice and Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases, at the Institute for Global Health at UCL.

Rochelle is interested in the advancement of community-led approaches to health and mental health improvement globally. Her work explores how communities navigate and respond to the political economy of poor health, with a particular emphasis on community-led efforts to address the impacts of broader development issues such as poverty, gender, racialisation, through engagement in transforming systems of governance, using community mobilisation and activism mechanism.

ABOUT

Prof Burgess will discus some of the themes of her latest book - Rethinking Global Health - which reflects and analyses the working of power in the field of global health– and what this goes on to produce. In so doing, asks the pivotal questions of, ‘who is global health for’ and ‘what is it that limits our ability to build responses that meet people where they are?’

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Practical

• This session is from 2pm to 3pm (GMT) on 22nd April 2026
• Co-hosts are HCRI and FBMH at University of Manchester
• It will be a hybrid event - with in-person and Teams options for attendance

Networking

• The talk will be followed by coffee and networking. Open to all.

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