Mason Institute Webinar: Global South Healthcare Professional Shortages: A Structural Injustice

Location:
Online only
Date/time
Tue 11 February 2025
13:00-14:00
About the event
Healthcare professional shortages in the Global South continue to cost millions of people access to healthcare. There has been growing recognition in the bioethical literature that such shortages—and the 'brain drain' of healthcare professionals that contributes to them—are unjust. I make a more specific argument. I claim that healthcare professional shortages in the Global South constitute a global structural injustice that is underpinned by unfair international social structures and arrangements that systematically advantage Global North states while disadvantaging Global South states. In particular, I argue that Global South healthcare professional shortages arise out of reproduced colonial structures that undermine Global South health systems and contribute to the brain drain of healthcare professionals from the Global South to the Global North.
About the speaker
Rebecca is a Bioethics PhD candidate at Edinburgh Law School. She comes from an interdisciplinary bioethics background, holding an MA in the PPE of Health from UCL and Bachelors of Health Science and Arts (in Philosophy and Politics) from the University of Auckland. She is interested in issues of global bioethics and global health justices and her PhD research examines responsibilities of justice related to healthcare professional shortages in the Global South.
This event is online only.