Solidarity

San José, Costa Rica – The Mesoamerican Workshop on Solidarity and Global Health, held on 26–27 February at San José’s Museo Calderón Guardia, brought together activists, scholars, and policymakers from across Latin America to challenge conventional notions of solidarity in global health. The event, organised as part of the Global Health Solidarity Project, facilitated groundbreaking discussions on how solidarity must be reimagined in the face of colonial legacies, capitalist structures, and systemic inequities shaping health outcomes.

 On the 5th of February 2025, the University of Nigeria Nsukka hosted an expert workshop bringing together an interdisciplinary and diverse group of academics and researchers in Igbo studies to explore conceptualisations of solidarity in the Igbo context. Organised by scholars from the University of Ghana, the University of Oxford (Prof. Caesar Atuire, Ms. Imogen Brown) and the University of Nigeria Nsukka (Rev. Fr. Prof.

Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 - The Global Health Solidarity Project hosted their first forum titled “Solidarity – Concepts and Practices from Africa”. The forum aimed to discuss how solidarity is conceptualised and enacted, drawing on findings from workshops held in Africa, and a case study about ongoing work in the India-Nepal-Tibet region. Over 50 participants, including  researchers, public health practitioners and students from mostly sub-Saharan African countries attended.  

On 10th July 2024, the Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health project team organised a workshop where global health practitioners discussed findings from the project’s consultative meetings conducted in Ghana and Guinea on the practice of solidarity in global health. 

 The workshop was part of the annual Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference, which fosters multi-disciplinary debates and addresses ethical concerns in global health conception and implementation. 

As part of our goal to generate a pluriversal understanding of solidarity in global health, qualitative work is being undertaken in the Himalayan communities in Nepal and India. This multiple case study research explores five purposively selected independent cases/examples of apparently solidaristic practices in everyday life like farming, birth, death, hunting, and marriages among the indigenous people of the Himalayas. The study was   conducted between 11th – 23rd May 2024. 

In this feature, the Principal Investigator of the Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health Research Project, Prof. Caesar Atuire, explains the need for solidarity, the objectives of the project, and his inspiration for taking up this project.

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The Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health team members attended and played varying roles at the Oxford Global Health & Bioethics International Conference 2023 which took place on 26th and 27th June 2023 at the Keble College in Oxford University, United Kingdom. Outstanding for the Global Health Solidarity team was the workshop held on the Global Health Solidarity Project.