ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the geographical work by focusing on three broad thematic areas: global health, inequality and justice; global health governance; and more-than-human global health. It identifies key areas where a distinctly geographical perspective has contributed to and broadened interdisciplinary scholarship. The task of improving global health weaves together ministries of health, physicians, patients and super-rich donors in a complex web of multinational institutions, bilateral partnerships, and advocacy networks. A growing body of geographical research has sought to decenter established accounts of global health interventions that prioritize concerns of the human. Inspired by a more-than-human turn within geography more broadly, this research approaches global health concerns from an alternative vantage point: that of the much-maligned bugs, viruses, bacteria and parasites that live within and beyond the human body. A political-ecology perspective enables analyses that focus on the effects of global health interventions on people, places and diseases.
