- 1What global health means, and why equity is in the definitionWhere the term "global health" came from, how it differs from international health and public health, and why every serious definition carries equity inside it rather than alongside it.7 min
- 2What research is, and what makes it scientificResearch is a systematic investigation designed to produce generalizable knowledge. Four features make it scientific: the approach is empirical, the procedures are public, the goal is inference, and the conclusions are uncertain.7 min
- 3The research landscape: basic, applied, and the clinical trial pipelineHow basic, applied, and clinical research divide the work of global health, walked through the phases of a clinical trial and the three-decade development of the first malaria vaccine.9 min
- 4From efficacy to impact: translation, implementation, and evaluationWhat happens after a trial shows that something works: the T1 to T4 translational stages, implementation and policy research, and the difference between monitoring a program and evaluating it.8 min
- 5Who pays, who decides, and where the work livesWho funds global health research, who sets its agenda, and where the findings get published — and what it means for the field that the money, the agenda, and the access to results all concentrate in the same places.5 min