Power and Priorities: The Growing Pains of Global Health; Comment on “Knowledge, Moral Claims and the Exercise of Power in Global Health”

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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York City, NY, USA

Abstract

Shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. Global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary in nature. This article argues that the distribution of power in some global health institutions may be limiting the contributions of all researchers in the field

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  • Receive Date: 16 February 2015
  • Revise Date: 01 March 2015
  • Accept Date: 02 March 2015
  • First Publish Date: 01 May 2015

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