Celebrating 10 years of IHTM – shaping the future of global health

We are delighted to be celebrating 10 years of the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine, IHTM, at the University of Oxford. The event will be a tremendous opportunity to hear what is new in the global health space and to connect with IHTM alumni, faculty and friends. We are honoured to welcome the University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor, Professor Irene Tracey, and the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education, Professor Martin Williams, as guests of IHTM.

Over the two days, we will host inspirational speakers, discussions and expert panels exploring wide-ranging topics from developments and contemporary issues in global health, to health systems, leadership, and health innovation. We will also be hearing impact stories from our alumni who are working around the world to affect change. The event provides a forum for collaboration, bringing together the IHTM community with plenty of networking opportunities and the chance to meet and reconnect with colleagues while enjoying the beautiful surroundings of Rhodes House in the heart of Oxford.

Attendance

The event is open to alumni, staff and guests of IHTM – by invitation only.

The two-day event starts at 9am on Friday 25 April and ends with a formal dinner at Rhodes house on Saturday 26 April. There will also be informal opportunities to meet on Thursday 24 April and Sunday 27 April. 

Cost

The event is free to attend excluding all travel and accommodation costs which have to be met by the delegates. Delegates are responsible for organising their own travel and accommodation.

If you would like help with finding accommodation then the IHTM team can supply a list of providers, please email msc.ihtmalumni@ndm.ox.ac.uk for information.

Funding

We are working to help raise funds to provide travel and accommodation bursaries for those alumni who otherwise would be unable to attend. If you are in a position to offer financial support to enable delegates to attend, please contact us by email: msc.ihtmalumni@ndm.ox.ac.uk or Proochista directly by email: proochista.ariana@ndm.ox.ac.uk

IHTM 10 year reunion: pre-event online discussion, 4 february 2025.

Shaping the Future of Global Health: For Whom and How? A conversation with Prof Caesar Atuire, Prof Mishal Khan and Assoc Prof Seye Abimbola.

4 February 2025, 12 noon -2.00pm UK time. For joining details email msc.ihtmalumni@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Many have analysed the evolution of global health as both a discipline and a practice, highlighting its growing prominence while also confronting its significant flaws and challenges. As the world deals with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic - and the looming threat of future pandemics - global health faces unprecedented strains. These range from the realities of failing economies, war and conflict, ethical challenges around AI, tensions rising from pursuit of global health equity and security, and the impact of climate change. Amidst these complex challenges, critical questions arise as to what the future of global health holds. How do we confront and address the epistemic injustices, extractive global health partnerships, unfair knowledge practices and rising health inequities that have long shaped the field and remain at the core of much of the discourse today?
As we consider the future of global health, we invite leading thinkers in the field to examine the lessons of recent years, and how we might make progress towards a more equitable, just and sustainable vision for global health.

Speakers

Prof Caesar Atuire: Prof Atuire is a philosopher and health ethicist from Ghana who is currently the Ethics and Governance Lead for the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine.  He is also an Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Ghana and currently serves as the President of the International Association of Bioethics (2024-2026). His work seeks to address inequity in the relationships that govern current approaches to global health with an eye to new ethical frontiers, decolonization, and pluriversality. His extensive work in challenging the notions of solidarity in global health, aims to shift understandings and practice of solidarity in global health so that solidarity can play an even more active role in increasing equity and justice.
Prof Mishal Khan: Prof Khan is a social epidemiologist and health policy expert, internationally recognised for her work on addressing health inequities, strengthening health systems and improving the governance of organisations working in global health. Her seminal paper published in the Lancet in 2018 on challenging inequitable status quos in global health drew much needed attention to stark gender and ethnicity-related disparities in progression to senior positions at some of the world’s top-ranked public health universities. She has worked extensively towards addressing issues of governance and equitable practices at her institution, LSHTM, and is a founding member of the LSHTM-Decolonising Global Health group.
Prof Seye Abimbola: Prof Abimbola is health systems researcher from Nigeria, currently based at the University of Sydney Australia where his teaching and research focus on knowledge practices in global health, health system governance, and the adoption and scale up of health system innovations. He is one of the world's leading scholars and voices on epistemic injustice and unfair knowledge practices in global health. He has written extensively on the Foreign Gaze culminating in a collection of essays published in 2024: The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health. He served as Editor in Chief for the BMJ Global Health journal for many years and currently serves as Thinker in Residence for the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research.

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