Gordon McVie: his legacy as a blueprint for cancer advocates as we strive towards the 2030 global health and sustainable development goals

This chapter explores the relationship between international development and global health. Contrary to the view that development implies ‘good change’, this chapter argues that the discourse of development masks the destructive and exploitative practices of wealthy countries at the expense of poorer ones. These practices, and the unregulated capitalist economic system that they are part of, have created massive inequalities between and within countries, and potentially catastrophic climate change. Both of these outcomes are detrimental to global health and the millennium development goals and sustainable development goals do not challenge these dynamics. While the Sustainable Development Goals acknowledge that inequality and climate change are serious threats to the future of humanity, they fail to address the economic system that created them. Notwithstanding, it is possible that the enormity and proximity of the threat posed by inequality and global warming will energise a counter movement to create what Kate Raworth terms ‘an ecologically safe and socially just space’ for the global population while there is still time.

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Achieving the SDGs through interdisciplinary research in global health

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1177/1403494818812637 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 47 (8) ◽

pp. 793-795 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sibylle L Herzig Van Wees ◽

Mats Målqvist ◽

Rachel Irwin

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Global Health Research ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Research And Teaching ◽

Starting Point ◽

Development Goals ◽

New Research

The Swedish Global Health Research Conference held in Stockholm, 18–19 April 2018, convened researchers from across Sweden’s universities to foster collaboration and new research. In response to the theme of the conference, How can Sweden contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? From research to action, many of the plenary and keynote speakers highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary research and teaching. This commentary draws upon a workshop discussing interdisciplinarity, which took place at the conference. Participants included senior professors, lecturers, students and collaborators from the private sector and civil society and we discussed the conceptual and structural challenges that prevent engagement in interdisciplinary research. Although the workshop focused on the Swedish context, issues will be familiar to researchers working outside of Sweden. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals highlight the grand challenges for global society and are intertwined, with progress in one affecting progress in all others. With this starting point, we argue that interdisciplinary research is the way to achieve them. Accordingly, we need to overcome the conceptual and structural challenges that can hinder it. We therefore argue for a paradigm shift of how we value knowledge. We also call for fundamental changes in external and internal (university-level) funding structures, and for the strengthening of interdisciplinary global health teaching.

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Global health research partnerships in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy ◽

10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.08.015 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (11) ◽

pp. 1614-1618 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joyce Addo-Atuah ◽

Batoul Senhaji-Tomza ◽

Dipan Ray ◽

Paramita Basu ◽

Feng-Hua (Ellen) Loh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

Health Research ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Global Health Research ◽

Research Partnerships ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Goals

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Sustainable development goals for global health: facilitating good governance in a complex environment

Reproductive Health Matters ◽

10.1016/s0968-8080(13)42734-9 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 21 (42) ◽

pp. 43-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Just Haffeld

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Good Governance ◽

Complex Environment ◽

Development Goals

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Global eye health and the sustainable development goals: protocol for a scoping review

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035789 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. e035789

Author(s):

Justine H Zhang ◽

Jacqueline Ramke ◽

Nyawira Mwangi ◽

João Furtado ◽

Sumrana Yasmin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Published Data ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Data Ethics ◽

Eye Health ◽

Health Related ◽

Development Goals

IntroductionIn 2015, most governments of the world committed to achieving 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) by the year 2030. Efforts to improve eye health contribute to the advancement of several SDGs, including those not exclusively health-related. This scoping review will summarise the nature and extent of the published literature that demonstrates a link between improved eye health and advancement of the SDGs.Methods and analysisSearches will be conducted in MEDLINE, Embase and Global Health for published, peer-reviewed manuscripts, with no time period, language or geographic limits. All intervention and observational studies will be included if they report a link between a change in eye health and (1) an outcome related to one of the SDGs or (2) an element on a pathway between eye health and an SDG (eg, productivity). Two investigators will independently screen titles and abstracts, followed by full-text screening of potentially relevant articles. Reference lists of all included articles will be examined to identify further potentially relevant studies. Conflicts between the two independent investigators will be discussed and resolved with a third investigator. For included articles, data regarding publication characteristics, study details and SDG-related outcomes will be extracted. Results will be synthesised by mapping the extracted data to a logic model, which will be refined through an iterative process during data synthesis.Ethics and disseminationAs this scoping review will only include published data, ethics approval will not be sought. The findings of the review will be published in an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. A summary of the results will be developed for website posting, stakeholder meetings and inclusion in the ongoing Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health.

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