Course: Examining African Contributions to Global Health

In this video, Professor Christian Burri describes the complex drug development process as well as the challenges of drug development specifically in Africa. Drug development is a very complex and …

The following article was published in June 2020 by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s research magazine Horizons – The Swiss Research Magazine. It describes the challenges and pitfalls of developing …

Drug research and development face challenges and are under pressure to develop and produce medicine as cheaply and efficiently as possible. Much can be learned from product development partnerships and …

This week, we examined health financing in Africa, exploring Universal Health Coverage and different ways of raising revenue and purchasing services from health providers. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) ensures that …

Results-Based Financing is a new tool for improving health system performance. Its aim is to build financial incentives into health system contracts. In sub-Saharan Africa, governments have been using Results-Based …

In this video, Vitor Pessoa Colombo discusses how inequitable spatial development has an impact on public health in African cities. Environmental and socioeconomic conditions are interrelated and influence our health …

​​African politicians have inherited the centralism of the colonisers. Land use planning was an important issue in the spatial planning of African cities. There were two specific cases, depending on …

Despite urbanisation processes starting much earlier than European occupation, African cities have had their morphology influenced by their colonial legacy. Notably, the sanitary movement that had emerged in Europe during …

For a long time, Europeans saw Africa as a continent without history. Today, the majority of historical scholarship on Africa is produced by scholars from the Global North. What are …

This week, we will explore urban health in Africa. Our experts are Akuto Akpedze Konou and Vitor Pessoa Colombo, two PhD candidates from Lausanne’s Institute of Technology in Switzerland. The …

We have reached the end of the fourth week of our course. We would like to congratulate you on your achievements. The fourth week of our course addressed Theory from …

In the last two steps, we identified source criticism as a key component of a historian’s toolbox. We listed the questions you can ask when you are analysing a source, …

In this video, Tanja Hammel interviews Andrea Kifyasi, lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, about his PhD thesis on Chinese medical assistance to post-colonial Tanzania. Historian Andrea Kifyasi …

Science, technology, medicine, philosophy or literature: Africans have been innovative in all fields. However, their contributions have often been neglected in the western world. Rediscovery starts with being aware of …

Global health is a field of many different vested interests. Sometimes the parties involved combine their efforts to achieve a common objective. Sometimes these parties put their own objectives above …