The definitive report for an alternative discourse on health, Global Health Watch, in its sixth edition is now available for paid pre-order. It will soon be available at solidarity prices for PHM groups to organise a launch and spread our collective analysis of the health challenges of our times and inspiring people’s responses. We have entered the third consecutive year of the worst pandemic in a century. The misery and devastation caused in the last two years has rattled most of us, although the virus is not solely to blame. Drug companies’ greed, health system privatization, weakened global governance, and the inadequacy of public health systems – all contributed to people’s suffering. Some of the world’s richest nations neglected the health rights of poorer countries to access vaccines, medicines, and other COVID-19 medical tools. Increases in already high levels of global inequality and injustice characterized the pandemic response. Global Health Watch 6 (GHW6) examines these issues through a political-economic lens, showing connections between the social, economic, political, commercial and environmental determinants of health and the structure of global power relations and economic governance. Similar analysis has been the strength of previous editions, and the GHW series has been hailed across the world for that reason. Importantly, as with previous editions, GHW6 describes and emphasizes the importance of people’s ongoing struggles towards the goal of “Health for All.” The narratives of resistance and social movement activism are spread throughout the book and set it apart from other writing in this field. The book reflects on what these interwoven stories of hope and change mean for a progressive, post-pandemic health activism. PHM will have its own copies available for PHM constituents and allies to organise launch events across the world. If you are interested to organise a launch, we can ship 20 to 30 books and you will only bear the cost of shipping. Get in touch with Chiara Bodini at [email protected] and Jyotsna Singh at [email protected]. Short video on content and perspective of the book: English español For pre-orders, click here: https://bit.ly/3M7Nrz4

• Paid E-book available from Apr 21, 2022
• Paid hard copies available from June 16, 2022
• PHM hard copies available from end of June
• Free version of the E-book available from early 2023

What is Global Health Watch (GHW)? Global Health Watch: the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health Since its first edition in 2005, GHW had been widely perceived as the definitive voice critically reporting on the state of the world’s health. It is published every three or four years commenting on the latest developments in global health while focusing on continuities with popular struggles from the past. The current edition draws heavily on analyses of the global health inequities that the pandemic has revealed, but it is not limited to that. It is designed to question present policies on health and to propose alternatives through new analysis and accounts of progressive social activism. The 6th edition is published by Bloomsbury, which acquired Zed Books, the publisher of the five previous editions. Who is involved in GHW6? GHW6 is co-produced by People’s Health Movement, Medact, Third World Network, Health Poverty Action, Medico International, ALAMES, Viva Salud and Sama. More than 120 public health experts, non-governmental organizations, civil society activists, community groups, health workers and academics from 28 countries contributed to the final book, giving shape to its content and analyses. What does GHW6 cover? Through its four sections, GHW6 covers diverse issues related to the global political and economic architecture, pandemic lessons for health systems, emergent issues in the social and environmental determinants of health, and pandemic influences on global health governance. Unlike previous editions, which had a concluding section as a rallying cry for health activists everywhere, the story of health activism is woven into every chapter of this new edition. We call upon all progressive health movements and NGOs to disseminate the evidence and analysis in GHW6. Contents Introduction (free to read online) A1 From pre-pandemic pathologies to post-pandemic hopefulness A2 Gendered inequities during COVID-19 times: a view from the Global South A3 From unethical growth to ethical degrowth: can capitalism be transformed? B1 The Universal Health Coverage/Primary Health Care divide B2 Global Health 2.0? Digital technologies, disruption, and power B3 Healthcare and COVID-19: privatization by stealth B4 Old/new politics of access to medicines B5 Transforming mental healthcare globally C1 Austerity rerun C2 Unequal labor markets meet a disequalizing pandemic C3 Confronting the commercial determinants of health . C4 Development model, extractivism, and environment: knitting resistances globally C5 Transforming food systems for healthy people and a healthy planet C6 Conflict and health in the era of coronavirus D1 WHO and the politics of pandemics D2 Shifting playing fields: how new trade treaties govern governments D3 The United Nations, global governance, and the toll of funding failures D4 Watching the international financial institutions: new rhetoric, old practice? D5 The World Economic Forum’s Great Reset: corporate ambitions and the future of multilateralism    in and beyond global health Conclusion: Building power in the struggle for health (justice): a call to health activists Will there be a launch close to my place? We invite you to consider launching the GHW6 in your own location. For this purpose, we will make books and ‘launch kits’ available. Following are the launches already happened / happening soon (We will continue to update this section):

1. 27 April, 2022: Physical and Virtual (hybrid) Launch in Madrid, Spain

Time: 6.30 PM CEST / 4.30 PM UTC Venue: Staggered Classroom, School of Labor Relations, C. de San Bernardo, 49, 28015 Madrid, Spain Interpretations in English, español, français, عربى Panel:

• • Roman Vega, Global Coordinator of PHM, Colombia
  • Manuel Espinel, Professor of Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
  • Ronald Labonte, Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa and GHW6 co-editor, Canada
  • Sulakshana Nandi, Health Researcher & PHM health systems circle co-coordinator, India
  • Susana Barria, People’s Health Movement
  • Amulya Nidhi,National co-convenor, PHM India, India
  • Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Professor of Global Development Studies, University of Toronto & PHM Canada

You can watch video recording of the event here: English español français عربى More details here 2. 24 May, 2022: Physical Launch in Geneva, Switzerland

Time: 6.30 PM CEST

Venue: Zazi Sadou, Maison Internationale des Associations,

Rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Genève, Switzerland

Interpretation in English and French

Speakers:

• Roman Vega, People’s Health Movement (PHM)
• K M Gopakumar, Third World Network
• Dian Blandina, PHM
• Kumanan Rasanathan, World Health Organisation

Chair: Lauren Paremoer, PHM

     3. 30 May, 2022: Virtual launch organised by PHM UK, Health Poverty Action and MedAct Time: 7 PM – 8:30 PM BST Speakers:

• Dr Chiara Bodini, co-editor of GHW
• Members of the Medact Research Network: Roman Gnaegi, Catia Confortini and Michael Orgel
• Dr Annabel Sowemimo, sexual and reproductive health doctor and founder of Decolonising Contraception
• Dr Lauren Paremoer, senior lecturer in the Political Studies Department at the University of Cape Town and member of PHM South Africa
• Rhiannon Osborne, medical student, organiser with Health for a Green New Deal and Stop Cambo, and member of People’s Health Movement UK

More details here. 4. 31 May, 2022: Virtual launch by PHM Australia, Menzies Centre for Health Governance and RegNet  Time: 12.30 PM AEST Speakers:

• Erika Arteaga Cruz, Co-coordinator, Ecosystem and Health circle of PHM and member, Latinamerican Social Medicine Association.
• Ronald Labonté,Distinguished Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity; and Professor in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa.
• Brid Brennan, Co-ordinator, Corporate Power Project at The Transnational Institute (TNI) within the Economic Justice Programme
• Susana Barria, researcher and campaigner on issues of health equity and economic justice. She is the Health Equity Coordinator at Public Services International (PSI)

Moderator: Belinda Townsend, Deputy Directory of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance and Fellow at RegNet, Australian National University (ANU)