LSE's Global Health Initiative is pleased to host Professor Rochelle Burgess (UCL Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice), to discuss her recent publication: Rethinking Global Health: Frameworks of Power (Routledge 2023).
In Rethinking Global Health, Professor Rochelle Burgess reflects on and analyses the working of power in the global health field, with an emphasis on what power produces. In doing so, the book asks the pivotal questions of 'who is global health for?' and 'what is it that limits our ability to meet people where they are?'
In this public lecture, Professor Burgess will reflect on how the two frameworks in her book: the Matrix of Domination in global health, and Transformative Global Health - have to offer in a period radical transformation in the field. She will discuss pathways for action in a new era of global health which centres community narratives and social justice in these turbulent times.
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration via Eventbrite is required. Copies of the publication will be available for sale.
About Rochelle Burgess
Rochelle Burgess is Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice, UCL's first chair in Global Mental Health. She is interested in the promotion of community approaches to mental health, and 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, systems of governance, through community mobilisation and activism. For the past decade she has focused largely on mental wellbeing and the experience of common mental disorders in contexts of adversity. She is qualitative social scientist, trained at the London School of Economics and Political sciences, and a leading voice in the emerging field of social interventions in Global Mental Health. She has led a range of projects that focus on the development and evaluation of community mental health interventions (in South Africa, Colombia, UK and Zimbabwe) and has contributed her methodological and mental health expertise to projects on community led responses to other health challenges, such as child health in Nigeria and Patient Centred outcomes for TB.
Rochelle is also Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases, at the Institute for Global Health at UCL. She is the founder and Director of UCL's Global Network on Mental Health and Child Marriage. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe, member of the ESRC peer review college, UK Trauma Council, among other affiliations and advisory board memberships. She is an advisor to the WHO on mental health policy.
Our chair for this lecture will be Ernestina Coast, Professor of Health and International Development in the Department of International Development at LSE. Her research is multidisciplinary and positioned at an intersection of social science approaches including health, gender and development.
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