Health diplomacy in Africa

October 28, 2020

Health diplomacy in Africa is the subject of an article published in the dossier “The meaning(s) of global public health history“. Philip J. Havik, researcher at Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, addresses regional dynamics in health diplomacy between 1920 and 1960, from early beginnings with the League of Nations Health Organization to the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa. The article explores the alignments, divergences, and outcomes with respect to the strategies and policies pursued by colonial powers and independent African states.

See in Manguinhos: Havik, Philip J. Regional cooperation and health diplomacy in Africa: from intra-colonial exchanges to multilateral health institutions. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Sept 2020, vol.27, suppl.1. Havik, Philip Jan. Public health and tropical modernity: the combat against sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea, 1945-1974. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, June 2014, vol.21, no.2.