The Virchow Prize: cementing commodification, coloniality and biomedical reductionism in global health?

• Published in: BMJ global health Vol. 8; no. 5; p. e011240
• Main Authors: Holst, Jens, Tinnemann, Peter, van de Pas, Remco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 01.05.2023; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Publishing Group
• Subjects: 19th century; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; AIDS; Awards & honors; Commentary; Commodification; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Epidemiology; Epistemology; Global Health; Health policy; HIV; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Interdisciplinary aspects; Medicine; Nobility; Pharmaceutical industry; Politics; Public Health; Reductionism; United States > US; Germany; Public Health; Health policy

[...]his leadership has enabled the iteration of Call to Action for an African New Public Health order by the African Union in September 2022.6 His personal commitment to the systemic is further emphasised by his donation of the prize money to the work of the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFEN...