Interrogating the World Bank's role in global health knowledge production, governance, and finance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the nearly half century since it began lending for population projects, the World Bank has become one of the largest financiers of global health projects and programs, a powerful voice in shaping health agendas in global governance spaces, and a mass producer of evidentiary knowledge for its preferred global health interventions. How can social scientists interrogate the role of the World Bank in shaping 'global health' in the current era?

Main body

As a group of historians, social scientists, and public health officials with experience studying the effects of the institution's investment in health, we identify three challenges to this research. First, a future research agenda requires recognizing that the Bank is not a monolith, but rather has distinct inter-o

SUBMITTER: Tichenor M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8449994 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature