Global Social Medicine

A woman welcoming a female patient at a health clinic in India; with further smaller illustrations relating to the ways in which AIDS can be transmitted including a couple having unprotected sex, blood transfusions, pregnancy and injecting drugs; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
Credit: Wellcome Collection. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

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The Global Social Medicine Network brings together scholars from all regions who are committed to a vision of social medicine as a vital intersection of social sciences, medical practice and policy. Funded by a Wellcome Trust grant, and launched at an international conference in London in 2018, our global network links, supports and builds upon existing interdisciplinary programs from social medicine centers across the world.

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Essay Collection in The Lancet

Read our recent collection of essays in The Lancet which aims to revitalise the field of global social medicine as a way to affirm a health agenda that promotes human rights and social justice.

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