Virtually every school of public health teaches a global health course, yet the major textbooks provide little on the actual practice of international health. This new book comprises a series of vivid first person accounts in which physicians, epidemiologists, health workers, and public health professionals from around the world present the critical dilemmas and challenges facing the field. Aimed primarily at medical and public health students and professionals, this book will be a much-needed addition to the existing literature. Related fields, such as development and urban studies, will find this book an engaging introduction to the core issues of international development. International health practitioners, national and local policymakers, foundations officers, and other related professionals will also find it an invaluable compendium.

• Introduction


• I. Health and Development


• 1: Assefaw Tekeste: The EPLF and the Pastoralists of Eritrea


• 2: Zafrullah Chowdhury: Gonoshasthaya Kendra


• 3: Ciro de Quadros: The Genesis of the Polio Eradication Initiative


• 4: Julie Cliff: Konzo: An Orphan Disease


• II. The Difference That Gender Makes


• 5: Nuriye Nalan Sahin Hodoglugil: Beijing + 5


• 6: Aruna Uprety: Mobilizing for the Right to Abortion in Nepal


• 7: Suneeta Krishnan: Swasthya: Caste, Class, and Women's Health in India


• 8: Sandra Lane: Applying Global Health Lessons to Syracuse, New York


• III. The Calculus Of Health: Markets, Frontiers, Franchises


• 9: Alejandro Ceren and Meredith Fort: Health Care Reform in Guatemala


• 10: Gopi Gopalakrisnan: Janani: Social Franchising in India


• 11: "Returned to Sender": Corruption and Health in Nigeria


• 12: Jane Galvão: Antiretroviral Drugs in Brazil