Series

COVID-19 and the Biopolitics of Global Health

Mavungu, Democratic Republic of Congo, circa. 1900 – The sculpture is a ‘power figure’ or ‘nkondi’ which contains a spirit named Mavungu and holds sacred medicine in its belly. Photo credit: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Metabolic relations in Africa

Between intention and impact lies the middlemen matrix of global health. Painted and photographed by Nishpriha Thakur

Middlemen and global health: What we found when we searched for fake drugs

Monstera plant

Political Stakes of Cancer Podcast

Roma community health workers and social fieldworkers, antibodies pilot testing, Janovce, Slovakia, December 2020. Photo courtesy of Zdravé Regióny (Healthy Regions, https://www.zdraveregiony.eu)

Romani Chronicles of Covid-19

An old style mechanical dial telephone

The Doctor Who Wasn't There/The Distance Cure

Black feminist health science studies poster

Winners of Essay Contest: The Future of Social Medicine