--- title: Global Health & Ethics description: Global health and ethics examines health disparities, infectious diseases, and healthcare delivery across international borders. Learners will understand the ethical principles governing international medical research, humanitarian aid, and resource allocation in low-resource settings. category: health-medicine subcategory: medicine-and-health-sciences difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/global-health-and-ethics --- # Global Health & Ethics Global health and ethics examines health disparities, infectious diseases, and healthcare delivery across international borders. Learners will understand the ethical principles governing international medical research, humanitarian aid, and resource allocation in low-resource settings. ## Available Resources 1 Books • 2 Courses • 4 Websites ## Websites ### 1. WHO Global Health Ethics WHO's hub for health-ethics work: guidance documents, consultations and reports on research ethics, equitable access, public-health surveillance and emerging technologies. Points to the normative standards WHO applies when weighing health interventions against individual rights. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.who.int/health-topics/ethics-and-health **Tags:** global-health, bioethics, health-policy, research-ethics, who ### 2. gh.bmj.com gh.bmj.com hosts BMJ Global Health, an open-access, peer‑reviewed journal devoted to global health research, policy, and ethics. It features original research, reviews, commentaries, and policy briefs addressing health systems, equity, and ethical issues in global health. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://gh.bmj.com **Tags:** websites, health-medicine, medicine--anatomy ### 3. msf.org MSF.org is the official site of Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization. It offers field reports and news from crisis zones, in-depth content on humanitarian medicine and ethics, medical guidelines and publications, and ways to donate or support MSF. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://msf.org **Tags:** websites, health-medicine, medicine--anatomy ### 4. Partners In Health Website of Partners In Health, a nonprofit delivering health care in poor and underserved communities across several countries. It offers program descriptions, field reports, and policy material showing how community health workers and health-system strengthening work in low-resource settings. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://pih.org **Tags:** global-health, health-systems, health-equity, community-health-workers ## Podcasts ### 1. Global Health **Author:** Global Health Unfiltered! Interview podcast examining power, funding and decolonisation in global health, largely through African practitioners and researchers describing how programmes actually operate. Gives listeners a view of the field that differs from donor and NGO framing. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.globalhealthunfiltered.com **Tags:** global-health, health-equity, decolonising-global-health, africa, health-systems ### 2. The Lancet **Author:** The Lancet Group Peter Hayward, Editor-in-Chief, and Adrian Gonzalez-Lopez, Senior Editor at The Lancet HIV, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy.A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from treatments of children with HIV to COVID-19 and chemsex, the experiences of HIV among global Indigenous populations to intimate partner violence and women with HIV, and more. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-gb | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/home **Tags:** hiv, global-health, medical-research, health-policy, infectious-disease ## Books ### 1. Mountains Beyond Mountains **Author:** Tracy Kidder Narrative account of Paul Farmer's work building tuberculosis and HIV treatment in rural Haiti and beyond, and of the argument that cost-effectiveness should not decide who gets care. Grounds global-health ethics in one clinician's practice. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1846684315?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, medicine--anatomy ## Courses ### 1. Globalisation and Health Governance Imperial College London course on how globalisation shapes health systems and policy. Five modules cover global health actors, economic and ecological determinants, and partnerships, leaving you able to analyse governance arrangements and argue evidence-based positions on global health problems. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/globalisation-health-governance **Tags:** global-health, health-governance, globalisation, health-policy, public-health ### 2. Epidemics **Author:** Gabriel M. Leung, Joseph T. Wu, Kwok-Yung Yuen University of Hong Kong course on infectious disease epidemics: pathogen emergence and ecology, outbreak investigation, epidemiological modeling, surveillance, non-pharmaceutical interventions, vaccination, and risk communication. Learners can explain how epidemics start and spread and how public health responds. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 10 weeks of study, 2-3 hours/week | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/hkuepidemics **Tags:** epidemiology, infectious-disease, outbreak-control, disease-modeling, risk-communication --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/global-health-and-ethics