Health Equity Hub aims for global good

A woman getting vaccinated in Kasungo District, Malawi. Photo by Thoko Chikondi/UNICEF Dozens of Western faculty and students across all disciplines are tying together threads that link global health with ethics, education, equity, ecology and economics. Through the new Global Health Equity Hub , researchers are sharing more holistic insights into the multiple causes of good or ill health in individuals, across regions and among countries. The hub was founded by medical anthropology professor Elysée Nouvet on behalf of a collective including global health equity engaged Western faculty members and students from across the university. "We cannot only pay attention to biomedical causes of disease or illness. We have to be paying attention to what's going on upstream, and which risk factors are higher for certain populations," Nouvet said. "This is an incredible opportunity across the world and at Western to multiply our impact as we work together." The hub represents a vision of a world where there are more equitable opportunities for well-being and less inequity in factors that cause ill health and suffering, said Nouvet, a professor at the School of Health Studies at Western.