This module is designed to introduce students to the key theories, concepts, contemporary challenges that draw the fields of health and development together as part of the ‘Global Health’ industry. The course aims to create opportunities for students to engage with key theories and debates around development, poverty, aid, and the field of global health. Through lectures and tutorials, students will have the opportunity to explore the relationships between the social, political, and economic factors that shape approaches to the global health ‘problem’ from a development perspective.

After taking this module you should be able to:

• Understand the different meanings of the term ‘development’ and the politically loaded nature of the term
• Understand the main features of the history of development from the Second World War to the present
• Understand and analyse the roles of different actors in the process of development and the relationships between them
• Understand the concepts of aid, trade and poverty in processes of development and the importance of these processes
• Understand the relationship between development and health
• Analyse the reasons underpinning development and global health success and failure

Students taking this module come from many different backgrounds and no prior disciplinary knowledge is expected.

The module is compulsory for iBSc students, and open to undergraduate students from other programmes and affiliate students subject to availability.

Selected reading list:

What is development? Chapter 1 in: Sumner, A. & Tribe, M. (2008) International Development Studies: Theories and Methods in Research and Practice.
	The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power: Stuart Hall. Chapter 6 in: Gieben, B. & Hall, S. (1992). The Formations of Modernity: Understanding Modern Societies an Introduction.
	Defining Poverty in the Developing World edited by Stewart, F. Saith, R. & Harriss‐White, B. (2007) Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 1.
	Moving Global Health Governance Forward: Ilona Kickbusch. Chapter 15 in: Buse, K. Hein, W. & Drager, N. (2009). Making Sense of Global Health Governance: A Policy Perspective
	Dambisa Moyo (2010): Dead Aid – Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is Another Way for Africa. Chapter 4
	Shiffman J. (2015) Global Health as a Field of Power Relations: A Response to Recent Commentaries
	Hickel, J. 2017. The divide: A brief guide to global inequality and its solutions
 

 