About The World Bank in Global Public Health

The World Bank is one of the largest financial contributors to health related projects and arguably the most important institution in international health cooperation. Symbolically, the World Bank is the arbiter of development norms and meanings combining intellectual prestige and financial power. In this collection, we examine two broad sets of questions of relevance not only to international institutions but also to global public health. First, what has the Bank contributed to global health over the past 40 years in terms of finance, ideas and networks, and how effective has this contribution been? Second, how has the Bank's increasing involvement as an economic institution transformed how we think about and develop policies to address health?
 
Collection Advisor
Professor Devi Sridhar
Devi Sridhar is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh where she holds a Personal Chair in Global Public Health. She is Founding Director of the Global Health Governance Programme and holds a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award. Prior to her appointment at Edinburgh, she was an Associate Professor in Global Health Politics at Oxford University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Recipient of a Rhodes scholarship, Devi holds an MPhil and a DPhil from Oxford University as well as a B.S. from the Univeristy of Miami's Honors Medical Program. Devi is the author of two books - "Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?" (OUP, 2017, with Chelsea Clinton) and "The Battle against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance and the World Bank" (OUP, 2007) - and has published her work on health governance and financing in Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and the British Medical Journal.