DV465 Half Unit
Global Health Work: Expertise and Labour
This information is for the 2022/23 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr. Tine Hanrieder
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Management (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Sciences Po), MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation, MSc in Global Health Policy, MSc in Health and International Development, MSc in Human Resources and Organisations (Human Resource Management/CIPD), MSc in Human Resources and Organisations (International Employment Relations/CIPD), MSc in Human Rights, MSc in Human Rights and Politics, MSc in Inequalities and Social Science, MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies and MSc in Urbanisation and Development. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Course content
The course examines the political and moral economy of global health work. It examines a set of cross-cutting development themes including the politics of education, workforce migration and brain drain, and gendered and racialized divisions of labour. It uses a broad conception of health workforce that includes frontline workers (paid and unpaid), managers, as well as policy and strategy consultants, and examines the hierarchies established among them. The course introduces students to the historical and localized genealogies of health workforce challenges and discusses key issues and controversies, among them: debates about workers’ cost-effectiveness, the politics of professionalism, the role of volunteering and unpaid work, the moral and political economies of “corruption”, the gains and losses incurred from labour migration, and the role of trade unions and international NGOs in workforce governance. The course mostly draws on research in sociology and anthropology, but also includes insights from political science, critical public health, and the social studies of science. It has a global outlook, working with case studies and examples from different regions and continents. Students will learn to critically analyse global health workforce politics from different perspectives. They will learn to question and contextualize transnational and national policies for training, retaining, and regulating health workers and to interrogate conceptions of (cost-)effective work.
Teaching
15 hours of lectures and 13 hours and 30 minutes of seminars in the LT.
Formative coursework
Students will be expected to produce 1