Are there instances where such content is part of public health education? We made inquiries with domestic and international colleagues and identified four exemplary examples – there are likely others – of public health education which offer a critical political economy approach. There are the Master’s and Post-Graduate of Public Health Program at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023a), the Master’s and Postgraduate Diploma of Public Health Programs at Newcastle University, UK (Newcastle University, 2023), and the MA and PhD Graduate Program in Health Policy at York University in Toronto Canada (York University, 2023a). 
The flagship course at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Health and Society states (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023b): 

According to the currently dominant biomedical approach, the main “culprits” in the production of diseases and health are biological and genetic agents, individual habits harmful to health, and deficiencies in access and use of health services... these causes have a smaller impact on population health than it may seem. Firstly, because they are proximal or “final” causes originated, in constant interaction with other more distal causes, by social determinants… Second, because these social determinants are in turn produced, or strongly influenced, by political causes originating in the very unequal power relations existing in each society according to “axes” related to social class, gender, ethnicity, immigration and territory. 

There is also a course entitled Understanding Global Health Inequalities: A Transdisciplinary Critical Approach (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023c) as well as a short course in English in the Fall Institute in Health Policy and Management called Emerging Dimensions of Social Determinants of Health Inequalities: A Transdisciplinary Integrated Approach. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2023d).
Newcastle’s Advanced Social Determinants of Health course (Newcastle University, 2023b) and Public Policy, Health and Health Inequalities course (Newcastle, 2023c) provide a critical political economy analysis to contemporary health issues. The Health Policy and Equity Program at York University (2023a) offers both a Political Economy of Health Inequalities course and a Health Equity Analytic Orientations course among others taught through a critical political economy perspective (York University, 2023b). The new Global Public Health program (beginning January 2024) at Essex University, UK offers a number of courses being presented through a critical political economy lens (University of Essex, 2023).


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To: Dennis Raphael
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Thank you very much Dennis!

I take the opportunity to mention that this is an introductory course in Spanish, and I teach a more advanced course titled "Understanding global health inequalities: a transdisciplinary critical approach" in the same Master, as well as a short course in English in the Fall Institute in Health Policy and Management (November 8-10 in Barcelona), called "Emerging Dimensions of Social Determinants of Health Inequalities: A Transdisciplinary Integrated Approach".

We need to keep pushing for change to counter the spreading of the extreme awful biomedical-neoliberal perspective in so many places.

Thank you all.
Best,
Joan

Joan Benach
Johns Hopkins - UPF Public Policy Center. https://www.upf.edu/web/jhu-ppc/about
Health Inequalities Research Group (GREDS-EMCONET). www.upf.edu/greds-emconet/<http://www.upf.edu/greds-emconet/>
Department of Political and Social Sciences (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF)
Mercè Rodoreda building 24 - Campus Ciutadella (Office 24.417)
C/ Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27 | 08005 Barcelona. http://www.upf.edu/campus/es/ciutadella/
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Missatge de Dennis Raphael <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> del dia dv., 27 d’oct. 2023 a les 21:47:
"An example of a public health school that educates students in critical political economy"

Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona
Courtesy of google translate!

Thank you Alex!

Dennis

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